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  • Jack drew up his legs, clasped his knees, and frowned in an effort to attain clarity.   (source)
    attain = gain or reach something with effort
  • Control would be more difficult to attain than it was in the Continuum.   (source)
    attain = achieve
  • He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility.   (source)
    attained = achieved (gained with effort)
  • Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.   (source)
    attain = achieve (gain or reach with effort)
  • It occurred to me that he had been very slowly bending toward her all evening to attain this proximity, and even while I watched I saw him stoop one ultimate degree and kiss at her cheek.   (source)
    attain = gain or reach something with effort
  • And to what a height of scientific glory we should then attain!   (source)
    attain = reach or gain (with effort)
  • Pearl, therefore—so large were the attainments of her three years' lifetime—could have borne a fair examination in the New England Primer, or the first column of the Westminster Catechisms, although unacquainted with the outward form of either of those celebrated works.   (source)
    attainments = achievements
  • Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained.   (source)
    attained = reached (with effort)
  • When I had attained the age of seventeen my parents resolved that I should become a student at the university of Ingolstadt.   (source)
    attained = reached
  • Sir, you might want to keep the item stored in your inventory until your avatar has attained tenth level.†   (source)
  • And to attain that state, you need to empty yourself" I said, "I'm empty enough.†   (source)
  • Feeling the textures of the mitre-crozier appliqué and the facets of the diamonds, he reminded himself that this ring was a symbol of power far less than that which he would soon attain.†   (source)
  • Professor Snape, who seemed to have attained new levels of vindictiveness over the summer, gave Nevihle detention, and Neville returned from it in a state of nervous collapse, having been made to disembowel a barrel full of horned toads.†   (source)
  • Some skills can be attained by education, and some by practice, and some by time.†   (source)
  • Rose and Ty and I played like farmers, looking for pitfalls, holes, drop-offs, something small that will tip the tractor, break it, eat into your time, your crop, the profits that already exist in your mind, and not only as a result of crop projections and long-range forecasts, but also as an ideal that has never been attained, but could be this year.†   (source)
  • His efforts have resulted in a nation that has the highest literacy rate in Europe, some of the best educational attainment rates, and the lowest infant mortality, inflation, and unemployment rates in the Western Hemisphere.†   (source)
  • To learn anything, he had to attain it by stealth or through an innate sense of things around him.†   (source)
  • It's good to have small goals that can be easily attained.†   (source)
  • Attaining adulthood was all about the eager acceptance of such impediments.†   (source)
  • Arthur's senses bobbed and spun as, traveling at the immense speed he knew the aircar attained, they climbed slowly through the open air, leaving the gateway through which they had passed an invisible pinprick in the shimmering wall behind them.†   (source)
  • Their educational attainments were noted, marriages followed, illnesses tabulated, psychological health charted, and every promotion and job change dutifully recorded.†   (source)
  • He attains celebrity status with his evening game of Crazy Cat.†   (source)
  • Our relationship immediately attained a sepia tone: the past.†   (source)
  • I will only say that it took me a series of nasty and dangerous adventures to attain it.†   (source)
  • Hyperion Cantos was written with a skill I could never have attained, with a mastery I could never have gained, and sung in a voice which was not mine.†   (source)
  • It's responsible for organizing your thoughts and actions to attain your goals.†   (source)
  • Nothing will prevent us from attaining the greater good.†   (source)
  • The heights he had attained, heights we puny mortals could only dream of achieving, were trumpeted and crowed about by Mommy in every corner of the house.†   (source)
  • And the struggle is so vivid and concrete that one can get a lot out of it—triumph over adversity, the value of hope and faith, the attainment of grace—without placing undue weight on the old man, Santiago, as a Christ figure.†   (source)
  • He wanted to attain a position where he would be honored and respected.†   (source)
  • L'ingéniosité diabolique de la nature a atteint avec ce serpent le plus haut degré de perfection, the experts claim in the library book of snakes: In this serpent the diabolic genius of nature has attained the highest degree of perfection.†   (source)
  • Moreover, having once been attained, it can never be lost.†   (source)
  • But you were a destroyer just as I was a destroyer, more ruthless and cunning even than I. You showed me the only thing that I could really hope to become, what depth of evil, what degree of coldness I would have to attain to end my pain.†   (source)
  • Mike Evans asked me, and without even really realizing it, I pulled out from under his arm, one quick movement, costing him all the progress he'd slowly attained in the last thirty minutes.†   (source)
  • If you have not attained your Hong Kong citizenship, apply for a passport now!†   (source)
  • I was about twenty-five then, but I felt as if I had only a little life left ahead of me to build my future and attain the position that I wanted.†   (source)
  • And that was a level of fitness and strength that could only be attained by those who actively sought it.†   (source)
  • If she was able to finish her education, attain a successful life, and have one of her children grow up to become president of the United States, then we know it's possible.†   (source)
  • Dr. Juvenal Urbino never accepted the public positions that were offered to him with frequency and without conditions, and he was a pitiless critic of those physicians who used their professional prestige to attain political office.†   (source)
  • What it all boils down to is that if there's one kid who keeps pushing to attain his dreams, or ... if there's one dad who accepts the saving grace of Christ and changes his whole family, or ... if there's one person who sees my mistakes, realizes that we all fall short, and keeps pressing on, or ... if there's someone who agrees that Christians don't have to be weak, either in mind, body, or soul, then undertaking this project was the right thing to do, regardless of what the world thinks is the "right time" to write a memoir.†   (source)
  • Billy was a good runner, which, considering the range we hoped to attain, I thought we might need to help us find our rockets.†   (source)
  • It is surely a professional responsibility for all of us to think deeply about these things so that each of us may better strive towards attaining 'dignity' for ourselves.†   (source)
  • It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.†   (source)
  • They do not attain such a total surrender of consciousness.†   (source)
  • All of the executives agreed that "zero training" was the fast food industry's ideal, though it might not ever be attained.†   (source)
  • The volcano grew up seven to ten million years ago, producing fierce eruptions and explosions of ash, which repeatedly wiped out the forests that grew on its slopes, until it attained a tremendous height.†   (source)
  • We attained our purpose.†   (source)
  • "Spinning a decent slant on the fact that you're here instead of on the East Coast preparing for Harvard was difficult enough, but we consoled ourselves with the fact that vampyres can attain money and power and success, and we expected you to excel in this"—she paused and grimaced distastefully—"rather unusual venue.†   (source)
  • "We might someday attain a relationship of mutual respect," he said softly.†   (source)
  • But if you live your life without feeling and compassion for your fellowman-you are as an animal—"an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" & happiness & peace of mind is not attained by living thus.†   (source)
  • She also taught penmanship, which was the one subject in which I did not attain excellence, because Writing Mistress issued no orders.†   (source)
  • He was forty-seven years old and he was the first male heir in all that new world lineage to attain such an age.†   (source)
  • Well, she had said that if one had feet one might climb, and to-night the old man had tried to train her to his pace for attaining heart's desire.†   (source)
  • As Lord Howe would report to Lord Germain on the prospect of an accommodation acceptable to the King, the "interview ...induced me to change my subscription for the attainment of an end so desirable."†   (source)
  • Can he attain it through repetition?†   (source)
  • The classrooms shown by the algorithm to have the best teachers, in which big gains were thought to have been legitimately attained.†   (source)
  • He managed the distance between the orderly room and his trailer by darting around the corner of the tent when the coast was clear, leaping down into the railroad ditch and dashing along with head bowed until he attained the sanctuary of the forest.†   (source)
  • Before we declare our consent we must carefully examine— Liberation is just the means of attaining freedom; it's not synonymous with it!†   (source)
  • That you'd attained some sort of carefree 'celebrity' status this morning?†   (source)
  • He had labored hard, working his way through school, finally attaining his license as an osteopathic physician, and then completing a residency in anesthesiology.†   (source)
  • "This is good ground, Thoren," the Old Bear proclaimed when at last they attained the top.†   (source)
  • But it's impossible to attain a Cuban travel visa in the United States because the United States and Cuba have severed diplomatic relations.†   (source)
  • But good produce," he finished with a wink, "good produce is very difficult to attain."†   (source)
  • A vote was, to Jefferson, a precious privilege a man attained for himself in a—a live-and-let-live economy.†   (source)
  • As I said, we have other reasons to believe this man may know things he has no business knowing, regardless of how he attained that information.†   (source)
  • Would he attain his assigned kill-ratio of ten enemies before he was slaughtered?†   (source)
  • My questions lead to more questions, most urgently how becoming the leader of an Empire I loathe can possibly result in my attaining "true freedom—of body and of soul."†   (source)
  • When they bound Shadrack into a straitjacket, he was both relieved and grateful, for his hands were at last hidden and confined to whatever size they had attained.†   (source)
  • It involves unselfconsciousness, which produces a complete identification with one's circumstances, and there are levels and levels of this identification and levels and levels of quietness quite as profound and difficult of attainment as the more familiar levels of activity.†   (source)
  • One moment I believed, I was dedicated, willing to lie on the blazing coals, do anything to attain a position on the campus-then snap!†   (source)
  • The wind generated from such a column could reach out hundreds of feet and might attain hurricanelike speeds.†   (source)
  • This conference certainly isn't bulging with authors who've attained your degree of success.†   (source)
  • He embodied the calm emotion and serenity that many players never attain at any age.†   (source)
  • The highest position I have attained has been that of chief of the old order scribes in your fathers law office.†   (source)
  • He was left, not with a sense of attainment, but with a sense of his own degradation.†   (source)
  • We must believe in the attainability of good.†   (source)
  • If I could attain all that, happiness would be my reward.†   (source)
  • The attainment of independence, the severing of ties, is, at best, a bleak process for both sides; but it is necessary, even though each may grudge it and hold it against the other.†   (source)
  • But absorbed in the culmination of his life's labors, he had attained a level of calm concentration.†   (source)
  • Even when acceptance is achieved and a degree of happiness attained, joy often remains elusive forever, like a promise of water in a dry well once brimming but now holding only the deep, damp smell of past sustenance.†   (source)
  • Many others who attained equal or higher ratings.'†   (source)
  • I have tried to make clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends.†   (source)
  • What is the maximum height attained by the Pop-Tart?†   (source)
  • They might or might not have counted themselves happy, though; happiness as they conceived it then was a thing attained, a grand state, involving a fiefdom to survey from the plump comfort of their dotage.†   (source)
  • 'However innumerable beings are, I vow to save them; however inexhaustible the passions are, I vow to extinguish them; however immeasurable the Dharmas are, I vow to master them; however incomparable the Buddha-truth is, I vow to attain it.'†   (source)
  • And yet in the end, she never attained the virtuosity the best young performers must have in order to be promoted to the next ranks.†   (source)
  • A stonemason who served as a private in another Massachusetts regiment considered "the object of our government as one worth dying to attain—the maintenance of our free institutions which must of necessity result in the freedom of every human being over whom the stars and stripes wave."†   (source)
  • Tradd, Mark, and Pig would be corporalsand I would be a private, the highest military rank I would ever attain.†   (source)
  • When women place their secret lives in the hairdresser's hands, he gains an authority few other men ever attain.†   (source)
  • It is said that men condemned to death are subject to sudden moments of elation; as if, like moths in the fire, their destmction were coincidental with attainment.†   (source)
  • You know that he stole the fabric of his doctrine, path and attainment, the whole robe, from prehistorical forbidden sources.†   (source)
  • It is true that we have launched our Bicentennial celebration without having achieved human perfection, but we have attained a very remarkable self-governed society that possesses the flexibility and the dynamism to grow and undertake an entirely new agenda, an agenda for America's third century.†   (source)
  • Although I can no longer remember for certain, it must have been the same sort of catharsis I was trying to attain in this last section on Leslie—following my meditation on Gide—which I include here.†   (source)
  • And of course, as soon as the boys attained anywhere near the right age, there was an electric train, the engine with its pea-sized working headlight, its line of cars, tracks equipped with switches, semaphores, its station, its bridges, and its tunnel, which blocked off all other traffic in the upstairs hall.†   (source)
  • It is not often in a man's life that he attains the exalted rank of "temporary Honorary Colonel.†   (source)
  • When goal was attained, there would be an enormous enrichment of human experience.†   (source)
  • Yet three days such as this shall pass
    And they shall thrust me into such a void
    That during this brief interval of time
    I shall, even before the Resurrection, attain my full stature.†   (source)
  • By applying my natural Godgiven talents in their proper sphere, I shall attain the pinnacle of success!†   (source)
  • she asked, once they had attained the other curb.†   (source)
  • They were the only political group which was prepared to work with the Africans for the attainment of political rights and a stake in society.†   (source)
  • And only the very courageous will be able to keep alive the spirit of individualism and dissent which gave birth to this nation, nourished it as an infant and carried it through its severest tests upon the attainment of its maturity.†   (source)
  • Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.   (source)
  • Practice elocution, poise and how to attain it   (source)
    attain = gain or reach something with effort
  • There was much joy throughout the town when this greatly desirable object was attained.   (source)
    attained = obtained
  • We have already reached a very high latitude; but it is the height of summer, and although not so warm as in England, the southern gales, which blow us speedily towards those shores which I so ardently desire to attain, breathe a degree of renovating warmth which I had not expected.   (source)
    attain = gain or reach something with effort
  • A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study; and I, who continually sought the attainment of one object of pursuit and was solely wrapped up in this, improved so rapidly that at the end of two years I made some discoveries in the improvement of some chemical instruments, which procured me great esteem and admiration at the university.   (source)
    attainment = realization (fulfillment or achievement of something)
  • It was only with the assistance of a servant, and by leaning his hand heavily on the iron balustrade, that he could slowly and painfully ascend the Custom-House steps, and, with a toilsome progress across the floor, attain his customary chair beside the fireplace.   (source)
    attain = reach
  • A party of Indians—in their savage finery of curiously embroidered deerskin robes, wampum-belts, red and yellow ochre, and feathers, and armed with the bow and arrow and stone-headed spear—stood apart with countenances of inflexible gravity, beyond what even the Puritan aspect could attain.   (source)
    attain = achieve
  • He was heard to speak of Sir Kenelm Digby and other famous men—whose scientific attainments were esteemed hardly less than supernatural—as having been his correspondents or associates.   (source)
    attainments = achievements
  • His spirit rose, as it were, with a bound, and attained a nearer prospect of the sky, than throughout all the misery which had kept him grovelling on the earth.   (source)
    attained = achieved
  • It was to teach them, that the holiest amongst us has but attained so far above his fellows as to discern more clearly the Mercy which looks down, and repudiate more utterly the phantom of human merit, which would look aspiringly upward.   (source)
    attained = reached
  • Now, however, her interview with the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale, on the night of his vigil, had given her a new theme of reflection, and held up to her an object that appeared worthy of any exertion and sacrifice for its attainment.   (source)
    attainment = realization (fulfillment or achievement of something)
  • There are scholars among them, who had spent more years in acquiring abstruse lore, connected with the divine profession, than Mr. Dimmesdale had lived; and who might well, therefore, be more profoundly versed in such solid and valuable attainments than their youthful brother.   (source)
    attainments = achievements
  • His spirit could never, I conceive, have been characterized by an uneasy activity; it must, at any period of his life, have required an impulse to set him in motion; but once stirred up, with obstacles to overcome, and an adequate object to be attained, it was not in the man to give out or fail.   (source)
    attained = achieved
  • When, however, it forms its judgment, as it usually does, on the intuitions of its great and warm heart, the conclusions thus attained are often so profound and so unerring as to possess the character of truth supernaturally revealed.   (source)
    attained = reached
  • Two or three individuals hinted that the man of skill, during his Indian captivity, had enlarged his medical attainments by joining in the incantations of the savage priests, who were universally acknowledged to be powerful enchanters, often performing seemingly miraculous cures by their skill in the black art.   (source)
    attainments = achievements
  • It comprised a variety of instruments, perhaps imperfectly adapted to one another, and played with no great skill; but yet attaining the great object for which the harmony of drum and clarion addresses itself to the multitude—that of imparting a higher and more heroic air to the scene of life that passes before the eye.   (source)
    attaining = accomplishing
  • Notwithstanding his high native gifts and scholar-like attainments, there was an air about this young minister—an apprehensive, a startled, a half-frightened look—as of a being who felt himself quite astray, and at a loss in the pathway of human existence, and could only be at ease in some seclusion of his own.   (source)
    attainments = things achieved
  • It was none other than Field Marshal Kutuzov attaining higher ground to take measure of his foes.†   (source)
  • The Kull on the other shore redoubled their pace so as to attain the waterfall before she landed.†   (source)
  • He believed that the aim of life was to attain the highest possible sensory enjoyment.†   (source)
  • To prepare for what lies before us, he has to attain mastery.†   (source)
  • Do not offend one power to attain the favor of another.†   (source)
  • Which means it cannot be lawfully seized, attained, or taken from you.†   (source)
  • Since 1649, Walpurgisnacht has attained even greater significance.†   (source)
  • An infant animal given the drug never attained full adult size.†   (source)
  • And they distract from the plans and operations needed to attain the goal.†   (source)
  • My lord has promised me the first bite—just enough for me to attain koukerros.†   (source)
  • She attained the highest rank as a scholar.†   (source)
  • The sea power that Adams had envisioned and worked so hard to attain was nonexistent.†   (source)
  • If I'm asked to name my proudest attainment, I will say: I have slept with Hank Rearden.†   (source)
  • It swelled as each pulse attained its peak, then shrank back a bit while the next throb grew.†   (source)
  • Not its attainment, nor its final definition, but its pursuit.†   (source)
  • Not its attainment, nor its final definition, but its pursuit.†   (source)
  • Secrecy and speed are needed to facilitate attaining the objectives of the negotiation.†   (source)
  • That virtue and independence were among the highest of mortal attainments, John Adams never doubted.†   (source)
  • Learning was not attained by chance, but "must be sought for with ardor."†   (source)
  • In man, transitory life attains its peak of animation, of soul power, so to speak.†   (source)
  • Did it too have desires, did it have goals it sensed dimly yet might never attain?†   (source)
  • The locket was accorded this place of honor not because it was valuable — in all usual senses it was worthless — but because of what it had cost to attain it.†   (source)
  • All the other degrees can be attained by successful completion of the previous degree, but ascension to the thirty-third degree is controlled.†   (source)
  • Kronos has not yet attained full power.†   (source)
  • By then his mother had attained the status of a mythical being, something that transcended the human, with dark wings and eyes that burned like Justice, and a sword.†   (source)
  • Perhaps, not only to attain her but also to conjure away her dangers, all that was needed was a feeling as primitive and as simple as that of love, but that was the only thing that did not occur to anyone.†   (source)
  • As Eragon immersed himself in the thoughts and feelings of the beings around him, he was able to attain a state of inner peace so profound that, during that time, he ceased to exist as an individual.†   (source)
  • Aureliano Segundo decided that they would have to bring her to the house and take care of her, but his good intentions were frustrated by the firm intransigence of Rebeca, who had needed many years of suffering and misery in order to attain the privileges of solitude and who was not disposed to renounce them in exchange for an old age disturbed by the false attractions of charity.†   (source)
  • Gunters called this "making the climb to ninety-nine," because ninety-ninth level was the maximum power level an avatar could attain.†   (source)
  • Attaining the papacy required a certain amount of political ambition, something the young camerlegno apparently lacked; he had refused his Pope's offers for higher clerical stations many times, saying he preferred to serve the church as a simple man.†   (source)
  • To call her writing women's liberation is to largely miss her point; Carter attempts to discover paths by which women can attain the standing in the world that male-dominated society has largely denied them, and in so doing she would liberate all of us, men and women alike.†   (source)
  • Someone had uncovered the story of Clara's childhood muteness and the curse of Father Restrepo— that saintly man who the Church was hoping would become the first in the country to attain beatitude.†   (source)
  • The great mass of the people could never hope to attain the enlightenment the spice seed brought to her; they had not been trained and prepared for it.†   (source)
  • And I attained all of my goals.†   (source)
  • It was only when he had attained a great age that the youngest brother finally took off the Cloak of Invisibility and gave it to his son.†   (source)
  • Fm Sushi K and I'm here to say I like to rap in a different way Look out Number One in every city Sushi K rap has all most pretty My special talking of remarkable words Is not the stereotyped bucktooth nerd My hair is big as a galaxy Cause I attain greater technology Hiro follows Squeaky away from the crowd, into the dimly lit area on the edge of the shantytown.†   (source)
  • Without the ability to freely choose—or reject—the good, an individual possesses no control over his own soul, and without that control, there is no possibility of attaining grace.†   (source)
  • In it friendships were formed and romances kindled; patience was fostered; civility practiced; even wisdom attained.†   (source)
  • Philosophy and science broke away more and more from the theology of the Church, thus enabling religious life to attain a freer relationship to reasoning.†   (source)
  • Rather than channel his abilities into the attainment of awards and prizes, however, Gellert Grindelwald devoted himself to other pursuits.†   (source)
  • The two hundred forty pounds that he had attained during the days when he had been challenged by The Elephant had been reduced to one hundred fifty-six; the glowing and bloated tortoise face had turned into that of an iguana, and he was always on the verge of boredom and fatigue.†   (source)
  • In those days, the Christopher Columbus was flourishing, but it hadn't yet acquired the international reputation it attained when it appeared on the navigational charts of the British shipping companies and in all the guidebooks, and when they showed it on television.†   (source)
  • He'd left home after high school with nothing but his wits and his imagination, and he'd used them to attain worldwide fame and amass a vast fortune.†   (source)
  • It took only a few seconds for the borzois to recognize the cat's tactic; but if attentiveness is measured in minutes, discipline in hours, and indomitability in years, then the attaining of the upper hand on the field of battle is measured in the instant.†   (source)
  • After being corrected and printed, the one thousand five hundred pages reduced themselves to six hundred, yielding a voluminous treatise on the ninety-nine names of God and formulas for attaining nirvana through respiratory exercise.†   (source)
  • A common feature of the new religious formations during the Hellenistic period was that they frequently contained teachings about how mankind could attain salvation from death.†   (source)
  • We bring an individual history to our reading, a mix of previous readings, to be sure, but also a history that includes, but is not limited to, educational attainment, gender, race, class, faith, social involvement, and philosophical inclination.†   (source)
  • Now that they had attained adult proportions and were finally grown, she could give herself the pleasure of spoiling them as she should have when they were small, but it was too late, for the twins had been raised without her caresses, and they no longer needed them.†   (source)
  • Good is easy to attain.†   (source)
  • They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.†   (source)
  • The status of manhood, on the other hand, is attained only by the stress of thought and much technical exertion.'†   (source)
  • But lying here next to Trey, who has somehow managed to attain sleep on our last night together, possibility piles on possibility.†   (source)
  • All evolutionary disadvantages, I know, but it's a law at the Workshop that only nonengineered humans can attain certain levels of seniority.†   (source)
  • Following Sikhdar's discovery in 1852, it would require the lives of twenty-four men, the efforts of fifteen expeditions, and the passage of 101 years before the summit of Everest would finally be attained.†   (source)
  • She'd died so this monster could forge me into his harbinger—a demigod capable of attaining the Sword of Summer.†   (source)
  • No doubt of this heaven, no worries about which kingdom I'd attained, only the certainty that heaven, indeed, existed, right there in our perfect union.†   (source)
  • In addition to their robes, all students wore magechains, silver necklaces whose weight and value increased as they attained various proficiencies.†   (source)
  • "I know there's a laborious procedure you have to follow," she says, "in order to attain a positive state of mind.†   (source)
  • Thereafter, their store of energy increases at a steady pace for the next five to seven years, until they attain the full height of their power, which is immense indeed.†   (source)
  • They are determined still that there is a final form to defend: soon they will attain the stability they strive for, in the only form it is granted — a place among the fossils....Her patterns became less harsh and decisive.†   (source)
  • But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.†   (source)
  • The man on the bicycle with a friction light on the front fender was pedalling up the road as if his life depended on a speed he could not possibly attain.†   (source)
  • I do admit that you are intelligent and your vocabulary is excellent & I do feel you can do anything you decide to do & do it well but what exactly do you want to do & are you willing to work & make an honest effort to attain whatever it is you choose to do?†   (source)
  • I wanted to linger there, experiencing the sensation of something precious perilously attained too late and now to be lost forever-a poignancy.†   (source)
  • Lindberg's steely calm and ferocious concentration led him to heights of accomplishment that few others attained.†   (source)
  • The heady taste of success had infused him further with morality and fired him with ambition for loftier attainments.†   (source)
  • There was a time, long ago, when the only peaceful moments of her existence were those from the time she opened her eyes in the morning until she attained full consciousness, a matter of seconds until when finally roused she entered the day's wakeful nightmare.†   (source)
  • Reaching the top of Everest is supposed to trigger a surge of intense elation; against long odds, after all, I had just attained a goal I'd coveted since childhood.†   (source)
  • But should it be that anyone ever wished to posit that I have attained at least a little of that crucial quality of 'dignity' in the course of my career, such a person may wish to be directed towards that conference of March 1923 as representing the moment when I first demonstrated I might have a capacity for such a quality.†   (source)
  • The wealth attained by Kroc's secretary vastly exceeded that of the McDonald brothers, who relinquished their claim to 0.5 percent of the chain's annual revenues in 1961.†   (source)
  • It is the month of vacations and the influx of tourists, and when the sun attains its full glory but not its greatest heat.†   (source)
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