Feats

Examples

• 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.
• The building of the Hudson River tunnels was probably one of the most daring engineering feats ever accomplished. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He emerges from great feats of business, presents the brightest prospects before me as their result, and calls upon me to admire them. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• After the Hermit has shown Edward some feats of archery, the joyous pair separate. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The old man evidently thought that his son was exaggerating in his description of one or two trivial feats which I had performed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.

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