Achieve

Examples

• The effort of remembering that he wanted to speak to me was, but too evidently, the only effort that his enfeebled memory was now able to achieve. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• What could not this man achieve in the busy English world? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• To achieve these results, and to secure a note of invitation which could be shown to Lady Glyde, were the objects of my visit to Mr. Fairlie. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• We had to have hard fighting to achieve this. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It was then only by a combination of talents that any of these three important inventions was enabled to achieve remarkable success. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Positive science always implies practically the ends which the community is concerned to achieve. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Fabianism began to achieve a reputation for getting things done--for taking part in practical affairs. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The socialist demand for a better distribution of wealth is of great consequence, but without a change in the very nature of labor society will not have achieved the happiness it expects. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• A somewhat difficult feat, achieved with great dexterity, and with a prodigious splash. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It is simply a cursory view of the century in the field of invention, intended to present the broader bird’s-eye view of progress achieved. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• They were come to tell her of certain successes they had achieved that morning in applications for subscriptions to the fund. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• You achieved distinction, you know, when you were with us. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• On the Fourth of August it achieved a great dramatic success. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Activities as they grow more complicated gain added meaning by greater attention to specific results achieved. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But it is essential that adjustment be understood in its active sense of control of means for achieving ends. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• We almost let the dead bury their dead today while the living drive forward their tasks, achieving as much in a year as the old ages did in twenty. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But the Turkish Knight was denied even the chance of achieving this by the fluttering ribbons which she dared not brush aside. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• It had come to buy and sell, and it found itself achieving a tremendous piracy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• A man of strong will, in the popular usage of the words, is a man who is neither fickle nor half-hearted in achieving chosen ends. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But I may be wrong in my conviction--other means of achieving our purpose may be in our power, which are less uncertain and less dangerous. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• With them, to love is merely to contrive a scheme for achieving a good match; to be disappointed is to have their scheme seen through and frustrated. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He says no more until he has performed his task, which he achieves as Messrs. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• That very man has it within him to mount, step by step, on each wonder he achieves to higher marvels still. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I hope to show that it alone can keep step with life; it alone is humanly relevant; and it alone achieves valuable results. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

Edited by Adrian