What used to be the end, in a certain sense, has become a part of the beginning.

This was the day of the end and the beginning.

Is this the end of the world or the beginning?

But that was the end of the story, not the beginning or even the middle.

We have not yet reached the end of the beginning.

It was, rather, no more than the end of the beginning.

However, since the time of our beginning, the American language has developed into what it is today.

This was the fourth age, and the end of the beginning.

You see, this is not merely the story of the beginning.

Yet the promises of its beginning were never really kept.