Attainments
[ə'tenmənt]
Examples
- I took advantage now of my attainments. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Ericsson, an engineer of the ripest experience, skill, and attainments, who had then come to make his home in the United States. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Mrs. Skimpole sighed, I thought, as if she would have been glad to strike out this item in the family attainments. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- We have handed over the government of a nation of people to a set of lawyers, to a class of men who deal in the most verbal and unreal of all human attainments. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He is a man of attainments and of captivating manners. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Mary's is a clergyman, a college friend of her brother's, and, from his attainments and principles, worthy of the connection. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Doctor Laws, who afterward became President of the State University of Missouri, was an inventor of unusual ability and attainments. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Nor were his political attainments less conspicuous than his philosophical. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Watt was the proper precursor of the nineteenth century inventions, as in him were combined the power and attainments of a great scientist and the genius of a great mechanic. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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