Successes

Examples

• It failed after some preliminary successes and another great slaughtering of Russians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Johnson, fresh from his successes in England. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Their success was immediate, and from these displays has grown the successes of today in pyrotechnics. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The dice have been loaded by all the successes which have preceded. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• They were come to tell her of certain successes they had achieved that morning in applications for subscriptions to the fund. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The successes for which it strives, the achievements upon which it sets store, are connected with fighting and victory. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• From the beginning of the war they had had considerable submarine successes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He pushed his successes beyond the Punjab. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But General Scott's successes are an answer to all criticism. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• There was little prospect of Germany repeating the successes of 1870-71 against that barrier. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The idea of attributing great successes to genius has always been repudiated by Edison, as evidenced by his historic remark that Genius is 1 per cent. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• That prevents men from developing their own interests and looking for their own successes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Thus was secured, by the combined efforts of the navy and army, one of the most important successes of the war. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• His successes were so repeated that no wonder the envious and the vanquished spoke sometimes with bitterness regarding them. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• As often will be the case, that good but imperious woman pushed her advantages too far, and her successes quite unmercifully. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Britain was at peace and flushed with successes; it seemed an admirable opportunity for settling accounts with these recalcitrant settlers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• An aristocracy flourishes where the people find a vicarious enjoyment in admiring the successes of the ruling class. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• These successes practically opened to us the Alabama River, and enabled us to approach Mobile from the north. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• She was especially careful to avoid her old friends and the scenes of her former successes. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• To some extent there has been a popular notion that many of Edison's successes have been due to mere dumb fool luck--to blind, fortuitous happenings. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The attempts of theorists to explain man's successes as rational acts and his failures as lapses of reason have always ended in a dismal and misty unreality. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Many startling successes and a few unavoidable failures were the outcome of this long period of continuous work. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• They were naturally inflated by their sweeping unqualified successes in war, and by their rapid progress from comparative poverty to wealth. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I look backward and consider its first foundation; its several revolutions, successes, and misfortunes. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• And no statesman can argue the virtues of the referendum from the successes of the town meeting. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The copperhead disreputable portion of the press magnified rebel successes, and belittled those of the Union army. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• But what is that compared with the number of your successes? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• They are not all successes, Watson, said he. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• At the outset of his career he achieved astonishing successes against the empire of Constantinople. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He reverted to his past life, his successes in Greece, his favour at home. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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