Accomplishments

Examples

• Rebecca's wit, spirits, and accomplishments troubled her with a rueful disquiet. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Your mamma prefers other accomplishments, I fancy. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Defoe could not think that God Almighty had made women so glorious, with souls capable of the same accomplishments with men, and all to be only stewards of our houses, cooks, and slaves. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• But what avail all these accomplishments, in Vanity Fair, to girls who are short, poor, plain, and have a bad complexion? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Rites and music, history and mathematics completed the Six Accomplishments. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Your list of the common extent of accomplishments, said Darcy, has too much truth. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Meg, my dear, I value the womanly skill which keeps home happy more than white hands or fashionable accomplishments. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Some of your accomplishments are not ordinary. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• You will wonder then, as I do, at the extent of his accomplishments, and the brilliancy of his talents. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• That she will faithfully apply herself to the acquisition of those accomplishments, upon the exercise of which she will be ultimately dependent. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Mr Plornish could not conceal his exultation in her accomplishments as a linguist. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Lighting fires is one of my natural accomplishments. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I, too, a gentleman with manners and accomplishments to strike them dead! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• If I add to the little list of her accomplishments that she rouged a little, I do not mean that there was any harm in it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• She flattered me, and lavishly displayed for my pleasure her charms and accomplishments. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Her sister he considered somewhat vain and proud, but a young lady of infinite accomplishments, who could not forget the past. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• What will you do with your accomplishments? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• In the time of Buddha it is doubtful if there were reading and writing in India; now reading and writing were quite common accomplishments. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Such a dashing young fellow as he is, with his good looks, rank, and accomplishments, would be the very husband for her. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I have had a continental education, and though I can't spell, I have abundant accomplishments. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Their terms, of course, are such as their accomplishments merit. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It's nice to have accomplishments and be elegant, but not to show off or get perked up, said Amy thoughtfully. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• It was a book which we know Charlemagne read, or had read to him--for his literary accomplishments are rather questionable. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And was not Rome the place in all the world to give free play to such accomplishments? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• She adorned her person with her utmost skill to please the Conqueror, and exhibited all her simple accomplishments to win his favour. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the grand faculty of arranging his ideas. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Yes, indeed: and not only for her beauty, but for her accomplishments. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• She had finished her breakfast, so I permitted her to give a specimen of her accomplishments. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The numerous important, wonderful, and curious accomplishments of human skill and ingenuity during the present century render preference perplexing, where so many deserve description. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• For all this, as may well be supposed, St. Pierre did not suffice: other management, other accomplishments than hers were requisite here. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.

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