to the end of the chapter

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Prepositional phrase

to the end of the chapter

  1. To the very end; exhaustively; to the last.
    • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 27
      He kept a whole row of pipes there ready loaded, stuck in a rack, within easy reach of his hand; and, whenever he turned in, he smoked them all out in succession, lighting one from the other to the end of the chapter; then loading them again to be in readiness anew.

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