Exploits

Examples

• He had now announced his intention of returning to the scene of his exploits, and of penetrating into regions left still unexplored. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• If Napoleon had gained this battle, it would have counted among his most characteristic and brilliant exploits. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• At this period the name and exploits of one of my countrymen filled the world with admiration. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The amatory exploits of Peirithous and Theseus are equally unworthy. Plato. The Republic.
• The kitchen was full of all his compeers, who had hurried and crowded in, from the various cabins, to hear the termination of the day's exploits. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• In the first flush of irritation, I said let the Arab and his exploits go to the mischief. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I have told Spaniards we can do something better than they can when the rule is never to speak of your own exploits or abilities. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• What gasconading rascals those saints must have been, if they first boasted these exploits or invented these miracles. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I panted for enterprises beyond my childish exploits, and formed distempered dreams of future action. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Osborne gave a sumptuous reward to the Sergeant when he parted with him, after having visited the scenes of his son's last exploits. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Nevertheless he persuaded the Directory, which was dazzled by his Italian exploits, to let him go. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

Edited by Caleb