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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)

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LAST   occurs   42 times 31 in BB  •  11 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
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1.
  ... last.  BB Bill's Story, p.1
Twenty-two, and a veteran of foreign wars, I went home at last.


2.
  ... last.  BB Bill's Story, p.6
My writhing nerves were stilled at last.


3.
  ... last.  BB Bill's Story, p.8
I, who had thought so well of myself and my abilities, of my capacity to surmount obstacles, was cornered at last.


4.
  ... last.  BB Bill's Story, p.12
I stood in the sunlight at last.


5.
  ... last.  BB We Agnostics, p.54
Little or nothing, we saw at last.


6.
  ... last.  BB Into Action, p.75
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 A Vision For You, p.152
Life will mean something at last.


8.
  ... last.  BB A Vision For You, p.160
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 How It Works, p.63
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 We Agnostics, p.55
In the last analysis it is only there that He may be found.


11.
  ... last, and all the time -- is the ...  12&12 Step Four, p.45
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 Bill's Story, p.1
I was part of life at last, and in the midst of the excitement I discovered liquor.


13.
  ... last bender, the chances are he will ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.23
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 Tradition Five, p.150
"Shoemaker, stick to thy last!" ... better do one thing supremely well than many badly.


15.
  ... last century than in all the millenniums ...  BB We Agnostics, p.51
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 To Employers, p.138
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 A Vision For You, p.151
But not so with us in those last days of heavy drinking.


18.
  ... last debauch.  BB Bill's Story, p.8
In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch.


19.
  ... last drink.  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.180
That was June 10, 1935, and that was my last drink.


20.
  ... last experience taught us that to take ...  12&12 Tradition Three, p.141
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 More About Alcoholism, p.42
This process snuffed out the last flicker of conviction that I could do the job myself.


22.
  ... "last-gaspers" often had difficulty in realizing how ...  12&12 Step One, p.22
Even these "last-gaspers" often had difficulty in realizing how hopeless they actually were.


23.
  ... last honest manual labor on my part ...  BB Bill's Story, p.3
That was the last honest manual labor on my part for many a day.


24.
  ... last, however, a plain line of cleavage ...  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.167
At last, however, a plain line of cleavage could be seen between professionalism and nonprofessionalism.


25.
  ... last I saw, I felt, I believed.  BB Bill's Story, p.12
At long last I saw, I felt, I believed.


26.
  ... last longer than his preaching.  BB Bill's Story, p.9
Besides, my gin would last longer than his preaching.


27.
  ... last mile and we did not like ...  BB We Agnostics, p.53
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 Step Four, p.48
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 The Family Afterward, p.128
Like a gaunt prospector, belt drawn in over the last ounce of food, our pick struck gold.


30.
  ... last Saturday.  BB To Employers, p.136
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 A Vision For You, p.156
But he's a grand chap when he's sober, though he's been in here eight times in the last six months.


32.
  ... last straw.  12&12 Step Two, p.26
This, the newcomer thinks, is just about the last straw.


33.
  ... last summer an alcoholic crackpot; now, I ...  BB Bill's Story, p.9
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 Step One, p.23
They were spared that last ten or fifteen years of literal hell the rest of us had gone through.


35.
  ... last the pendulum stopped swinging and pointed ...  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.162
At last the pendulum stopped swinging and pointed straight at Tradition Seven as it reads today.


36.
  ... last three times, I got drunk on ...  BB A Vision For You, p.157
The last three times, I got drunk on the way home from here.


37.
  ... last time.  BB Bill's Story, p.13
At the hospital I was separated from alcohol for the last time.


38.
  ... last time.  12&12 Step Two, p.32
Following each, he not only drinks again, but acts worse than the last time.


39.
  ... last time.  12&12 Step Ten, p.89
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.


40.
  ... last time he did so.  BB To Wives, p.116
But be careful not to be resentful about the last time he did so.


41.
  ... last word on this subject, but so ...  BB To Employers, p.144
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 We Agnostics, p.49
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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