Fulfilment

Examples

• Oliver having 'caught it,' in fulfilment of Noah's prediction, followed that young gentleman down the stairs to breakfast. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• I utterly distrust his morals, and it is my duty to hinder to the utmost the fulfilment of his designs. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• They have been with me during the fulfilment of my task. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• What is the secret of Madame Fosco's unhesitating devotion of herself to the fulfilment of my boldest wishes, to the furtherance of my deepest plans? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Thanks, however, to Gurt's quick ear, and the serviceable electric light, their little scheme was frustrated at nearly the moment of its fulfilment. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• She took a savage pleasure in the idea of 'speaking her mind' to her, in the guise of fulfilment of a duty. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Experience would cease to be an adventure in order to become the monotonous fulfilment of a perfect prophecy. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He claimed from Lydgate the fulfilment of a promise to come and see him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The catastrophe of the war was not an unnecessary disaster; it was a necessary fulfilment of such an age of drift. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He thought, what a perfect voluptuous fulfilment it would be, to kill her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• And this, this conjunction with her, which was his highest fulfilment also, with the perverseness of a wilful child he wanted to deny. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The idea flew through them: 'All men are equal on earth,' and they would carry the idea to its material fulfilment. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The fulfilment of the second has not yet arrived. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The ruthless exploitation of India becomes the civilizing fulfilment of the white man's burden; not infrequently the missionary, drummer, and prospector are embodied in one man. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• There is no such thing as such fulfilment on this earth. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.

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