Attaining

Examples

• Yes--yes--the end is not so difficult; if I had only a brain active enough to ferret out the means of attaining it. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• For he was gradually attaining his object in life, and that, to Lily, was always less despicable than to miss it. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• And without divine help, said Adeimantus, they will go on for ever making and mending their laws and their lives in the hope of attaining perfection. Plato. The Republic.
• The opinions of those who have most studied the subject differ as to the possibility of ever attaining that desired object. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• But it is one of the things that makes people be treated as reliable who would ordinarily have to spend much more time before attaining that category. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• About the same time Robert Davidson, a Scotchman, experimented with an electric railway car sixteen feet long, weighing six tons, and attaining a speed of four miles an hour. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Instead of operating on their own account they are reduced to mere servants of attaining pleasure and avoiding pain. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I really was frightened at the thought of the importance I was attaining and the number of things that were being confided to me. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Is it wise to proceed to these extremities, before you have really exhausted all safer and simpler means of attaining your object? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• To obviate danger from accidents, safety devices are installed for gripping the rails in case of the car attaining excessive speed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• When not attaining, they compel the other parts of the soul to pursue a shadow of pleasure which is not theirs. Plato. The Republic.

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