Fulfilled
[fʊl'fɪld]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Fulfill
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Examples
- If he could but graft the girl on to some tree of utterance before he died, he would have fulfilled his responsibility. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Stephenson and Henry Booth built the Rocket, and, as this was the only engine that fulfilled all the conditions, took the prize. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- There remained this way, this awful African process, to be fulfilled. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I conceive a conditional engagement to be null and void, when the conditions are not fulfilled. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The forewarning of my instinct was but fulfilled, when I discovered her, all cold and vigilant, perched like a white bird on the outside of the bed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- They aroused a strange, nostalgic ache of desire, something almost demoniacal, never to be fulfilled. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Sherlock Holmes's prophecy was soon fulfilled, and in a dramatic fashion. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- She must smash it, it must be smashed before her ecstasy was consummated, fulfilled for ever. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Little more than a year had passed since she breathed that wish; and how inscrutably, how awfully, it had been fulfilled! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Already she mocked at herself for her dreaMs. They could be fulfilled easily enough. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- In it, following his catalogue, he fulfilled the promise made in 1620, of putting nature and the arts t o question. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- She had her desire fulfilled. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Do not deceive me, by awakening hopes that are not to be fulfilled. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- What its future is to be no man may say, but its destiny is not yet fulfilled, and it is pregnant with potential possibilities. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I suppose Robert Moore's prophecies were, partially at least, fulfilled. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She would give a day to the mending of two holes in a stocking any time, and think her mission nobly fulfilled when she had accomplished it. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He fulfilled it so vigorously that ere long he came to a decisive rupture with his old Tory friend the rector. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Dear John, your wishes are as real to me as the wishes in the Fairy story, that were all fulfilled as soon as spoken. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- She was thinking how her mother's desire could be fulfilled. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- He fulfilled the round of his duties scrupulously. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Mr Podsnap inquires what would become of the very large fortune, in the event of the marriage condition not being fulfilled? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- But it so happened that my intention of writing and publishing this comment was never fulfilled. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- But he never fulfilled his promise. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- If he were, he had fulfilled his life. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She then took the post of toaster-general; and kneeling on the rug, fork in hand, fulfilled her office with dexterity. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Well, your wishes are going to be fulfilled, said Helena, with a lovely smile, turning to her lover. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- This prediction was but half fulfilled: I did not indeed dream of sorrow, but as little did I dream of joy; for I never slept at all. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Warren and Ord fulfilled their instructions perfectly so far as making ready was concerned. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Well, we will see how your predictions are fulfilled. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- If that condition were fulfilled I would do my utmost in helping Fred on. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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