Feat

Examples

• With an area beneath, it was no mean feat to reach that window ledge and open that window. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• A somewhat difficult feat, achieved with great dexterity, and with a prodigious splash. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Mrs. Gradgrind,' said her husband, who had waited for the achievement of this feat with some impatience, 'allow me to present to you Mrs. Bounderby. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Robert designed the tubular bridge across the Menai Straits on this line, which was considered a most remarkable feat. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• You have witnessed no such feat on my part. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The profit was merely the condition of victory, but the victory itself lay in the feat achieved. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The printing of a few thousand copies of one of the great American magazines would not be a difficult feat for any large first-class printing plant. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Having achieved this feat, he sighed again, and applied himself assiduously to the pie. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• He took hold, performed the feat, and I paid him the $10,000. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I stand prepared to bring thirty reliable witnesses to prove that Putnam's famous feat at Horseneck was insignificant compared to this. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• At this humorous feat he laughed outright. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• This in itself was a unique and very remarkable feat. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• In this year the Savannah, an American steamer of 380 tons, performed this feat, and had the honor of being the first steam vessel to cross the Atlantic. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• On one occasion, after performing this feat, Mr. Tupman, on opening his eyes, beheld a plump partridge in the act of falling, wounded, to the ground. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• What aeronautical authorities declared to be the greatest feat in the history of aviation had been successfully accomplished. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• By St Grizzel, he added, we will try his own skill, who is so ready to give his voice to the feats of others! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I had no more presaged such feats than I had looked forward to an ascent in a balloon, or a voyage to Cape Horn. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Mary Chivers's mighty feats of athleticism could not have been performed with the twenty-inch waist that May Archer's azure sash so easily spanned. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• I, too, have heard of his gallant feats of prowess in chariots and _vis-à-vis! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• What are the characteristics of the air which have enabled man to accomplish these feats? Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Dr. Bankhead laid his giant hand on my bosom to demonstrate one of his former feats. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Many extraordinary feats of engineering were accomplished to overcome the difficulties presented. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• They showed that they cared nothing to perform hazardous feats simply because of the hazard, nor to establish records. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The Norse discovery of America, the Ph?nician circumnavigation of Africa, were exceptional feats. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Shi-Hwang-ti, among other feats in the direction of common effort, organized the building of the Great Wall of China against the Huns. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• One of our first feats in the housekeeping way was a little dinner to Traddles. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Few monarchs have left us intimate diaries; to be a monarch and to be frank are incompatible feats; monarchy is itself necessarily a pose. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• At first they appear to have fought in a scattered fashion, each man doing his personal feats. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Men with wooden legs ride horseback, are expert users of the bicycle, and have even performed feats on the tight rope. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The feats of dead heroes lived again. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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