From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... last.
BB p.1,
Bill's Story
2.
... last.
BB p.6,
Bill's Story
3.
... last.
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
I, who had thought so well
of myself and my abilities, of my capacity to surmount obstacles, was cornered
at last.
4.
... last.
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
5.
... last.
BB p.54,
We Agnostics
6.
... last.
BB p.75,
Into Action
Carefully reading the
first five proposals we ask if we have
omitted anything, for
we are building an arch through which we shall walk a free man at last.
7.
... last.
BB p.152,
A Vision For You
8.
... last.
BB p.160,
A Vision For You
The expression on the faces of the women, that indefinable something
in the eyes of the men, the stimulating and electric atmosphere of
the place, conspired to
let him know that here was haven at last.
9.
... last abandon
ourselves utterly to Him.
BB p.63,
How It Works
We thought well before taking this step making sure we were ready; that we
could at last abandon ourselves utterly to Him.
10.
... last analysis
it is only there that ...
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
11.
... last, and
all the time -- is the ...
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
This being so, we think it
logically follows that
sobriety -- first, last, and all the time -- is the
only thing we need to work for.
12.
... last, and
in the midst of the ...
BB p.1,
Bill's Story
13.
... last bender,
the chances are he will ...
BB p.23,
There Is A Solution
If you ask him why he started on that last bender, the chances are he
will offer you any one of a hundred alibis.
14.
... last!" ...
better do one thing supremely well ...
12&12 p.150,
Tradition Five
15.
... last century
than in all the millenniums ...
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
This world of ours has made more material progress in the
last century than in all
the millenniums which went before.
16.
... last chance."
BB p.138,
To Employers
He has just returned from
a three-months leave of absence, has taken a cure, looks fine, and to clinch the matter, the board of directors told him this was his last chance."
17.
... last days
of heavy drinking.
BB p.151,
A Vision For You
18.
... last debauch.
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
19.
... last drink.
BB p.180,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
20.
... last experience
taught us that to take ...
12&12 p.141,
Tradition Three
At last experience taught us that to take away any alcoholic's full chance was sometimes to pronounce his death sentence, and often to condemn him to endless misery.
21.
... last flicker
of conviction that I could ...
BB p.42,
More About Alcoholism
22.
... "last-gaspers" often
had difficulty in realizing how ...
12&12 p.22,
Step One
23.
... last honest
manual labor on my part ...
BB p.3,
Bill's Story
24.
... last, however,
a plain line of cleavage ...
12&12 p.167,
Tradition Eight
At last, however, a plain line of cleavage could be seen between professionalism and nonprofessionalism.
25.
... last I
saw, I felt, I believed.
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
26.
... last longer
than his preaching.
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
27.
... last mile
and we did not like ...
BB p.53,
We Agnostics
Perhaps we had been leaning too heavily on Reason that last mile and we did not like to lose our support.
28.
... last on
the right track.
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
Having found the shoes that
fit, he ought to step into them and walk with new confidence that he is at
last on the right track.
29.
... last ounce
of food, our pick struck ...
BB p.128,
The Family Afterward
30.
... last Saturday.
BB p.136,
To Employers
I still expected a plea for clemency, but these
words came through the receiver: "I
just wanted to tell you Paul jumped from a hotel window in Hartford last Saturday.
31.
... last six
months.
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
32.
... last straw.
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
33.
... last summer
an alcoholic crackpot; now, I ...
BB p.9,
Bill's Story
So that was it -- last summer an alcoholic crackpot; now, I suspected, a little cracked about religion.
34.
... last ten
or fifteen years of literal ...
12&12 p.23,
Step One
35.
... last the
pendulum stopped swinging and pointed ...
12&12 p.162,
Tradition Seven
36.
... last three
times, I got drunk on ...
BB p.157,
A Vision For You
37.
... last time.
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
38.
... last time.
12&12 p.89,
Step Ten
Then there are those occasions when alone, or in
the company of our sponsor or spiritual adviser, we make a careful review of our progress since the last time.
39.
... last time.
BB p.13,
Bill's Story
40.
... last time
he did so.
BB p.116,
To Wives
41.
... last word
on this subject, but so ...
BB p.144,
To Employers
By no means do we offer it as the last word on this subject, but so
far as we are concerned,
it has worked with us.
42.
... last word,
the alpha and the omega, ...
BB p.49,
We Agnostics
Instead of regarding
ourselves as intelligent agents, spearheads of God's ever advancing Creation, we agnostics
and atheists chose to believe that our human intelligence was the last
word, the alpha and the omega, the beginning and end of all.
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