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Sentences ending with attained

It is a very hard thing to say, and I did not say it even to my wife, but I had a painful impression that she was valuing people by the money they had, by the social position they had attained. [4]
This bill seems to contemplate no end which cannot be otherwise more certainly and beneficially attained. [7]
How else are these marvels of symmetry, cleanliness, and order attained? [5]
During, and after the 20th dynasty, the style declined in beauty; in the 26th, under the descendants of Psammetichus, we meet with a last revival of art, but the ancient purity of form was never again attained. [10]
We may say that to learn how to read, and not what to read, is confessedly the object of these books; but even this object is not attained. [4]
I will not plead for a life whose end has been attained. [10]
The program here outlined was one that would continue for several years yet, with the end always in sight, but never quite attained. [5]
And each unit of it, like the bee, working unselfishly for the good of the whole; like the bee, flying straight for the object to be attained. [9]
The indispensable concert of action cannot be attained. [7]
If they would master the noble art, and put their brooding taste upon it, we might very likely compass something in our domestic architecture that we have not yet attained. [4]

More example sentences with the word attained in them

Egypt attained the zenith of her power under this king, whose army, according to Diodorus (I. [10]
From the time when he could barely handle tools until he attained his majority, Lincoln's life was that of a simple farm laborer, poorly clad, housed, and fed, at work either on his father's wretched farm or hired out to neighboring farmers. [7]
Her defense was weak and inapt but she attained her object. [2]
If the aim was the aggrandizement of France, that might have been attained without the Revolution and without the Empire. [2]
Yet her deep voice had gained a new, strange tone as, at first rapidly and softly, then in louder and firmer accents, she continued: "So I attained my eighteenth year and was no longer satisfied to dwell in Succoth. [10]
She admonished me, too, against liquor-drinking, and whatever capacity for endurance I have at present, and whatever usefulness I may have attained through life, I attribute to having complied with her pious and correct wishes. [5]
Far from attempting to hide or ignore the struggle by which she and her husband had attained their present position, she referred with the utmost naivete to incidents in her career, while the whole table paused to listen. [9]
The captain attained to fame in our little world from his maiden address, in which he very shrewdly separated the political character of Mr. Wilkes from his character as a private gentleman, and so refuted a charge of profligacy against the people's champion. [9]
Thus she lived till she attained womanhood, when one day her brother, whose name was Iamo, said to her: 'Sister, the time is at hand when you will be ill. [5]
Her reflections on this recently attained state alternated with alluring conjectures on the place of abode of which Howard had made such a mystery. [9]
In barbarous ages this object was accomplished by violence; it is now attained by skill and adroitness. [4]
Prince Vasili entered the room with the air of a happy conqueror who has attained the object of his desires. [2]
But many of the laity, who wanted their nebulosities fresh, admired his doctrine and adopted it, and it attained to great prosperity in spite of the hostility of the experts. [5]
The misfortune is that we who have attained it are but servants whose burdens grow heavier with the increasing number of those who obey us. [10]
Was it fancy that her husband's physical attributes had changed since he had attained his new position of dignity? [9]
You must admit that he is generous to a fault, amiable; and persevering, else he would never have attained the position he enjoys. [9]
And a society that has attained its end in all possible culture, entire refinement in manners, in tastes, in the art of elegant intellectual and luxurious living--is there nothing pathetic in that? [4]
There was no telling from Jethro's manner whether he were enemy or friend; whether he bore the storekeeper a grudge for having attained to a happiness that had not been his. [9]
He fought and suffered for his country, and attained the honorable rank of Major in the Continental line. [9]
He did this sometimes willingly, sometimes reluctantly, with greater or less strength, according to the nearness he had attained to his heavenly home; but when he had succeeded in reaching its circle of light, he returned wonderfully invigorated. [10]
This detracted to some extent from the popularity which they would have attained had the different members followed one another rapidly. [4]
Vulgarity, one can see, consists in making one's self a part of the display of wealth: the thing to be attained is personal simplicity on a background of the richest ostentation. [4]
Dr. James Jackson says that relief of epilepsy is not to be attained by any medicine with which he is acquainted, but by diet. [6]
The air is salubrious, and many of the inhabitants have attained great age, several having passed the allotted period of 'three-score years and ten' before succumbing to any of the various 'ills that flesh is heir to. [6]
We have a right to trust that this people is virtuous and brave enough not to give up a just and necessary contest before its end is attained, or shown to be unattainable for want of material agencies. [6]
There he soon purchased his freedom, and attained such distinction that Octavianus entrusted this important mission to the man who was so well known in Alexandria. [10]
But, from the point where Mr Codlin was charged with sleepiness, he had shown an increasing interest in the discussion: which now attained a very high pitch. [12]
I refer with pleasure to those portions of his report which make allusion to the creditable degree of discipline already attained by our troops and to the excellent sanitary condition of the entire army. [7]
Hospitality, with these people, has attained to art, and, though I had come here at the invitation of his government, I had the feeling of being his personal guest in his own house. [9]
This mistake is offset by another that occurred later, after Irving had attained some celebrity in England. [4]
At this time of year everything was moist and well-watered, and Pentaur compared the country with Egypt, and observed how the same results were attained here as there, but by different agencies. [10]
This charming product of the Western world has come into great prominence of late years in literature and in foreign life, and has attained a notoriety flattering or otherwise to the national pride. [4]
In the opinion of the other scientists of the Expedition, this seemed to indicate that we had attained the extraordinary altitude of two hundred thousand feet above sea-level. [5]
There are plenty of men who have taken advantage of like conditions to climb from one position to another, and have then kicked down the ladders behind them as fast as they attained a new footing. [4]
Moreover, the consciousness of exercising an art over which she had once attained a mastery, yet never being able to shake off the painful doubt whether the applause that greeted her performance was genuine, spoiled many a pleasant hour. [10]
There is record of a striking and curious example of the accuracy which may be attained in these reckonings. [5]
But Love did not cease to form new shapes until she attained the most beautiful, the human form. [10]
It grew, but never attained any great importance. [10]
Vindex and his nephew are no more; but I embarked soon enough to escape the rage of him who might have attained the highest favors of fortune if he had but known how to be merciful. [10]
Scarce had the myrmidons of Michael Paw attained the front of battle, when the Swedes, instructed by the cunning Risingh, leveled a shower of blows full at their tobacco-pipes. [4]
This gave it more local notoriety than it might otherwise have attained, so that, as I learn, one ingenious person made use of its title as an advertisement to a production of his own. [6]
When Shakespeare was managing his theatres and writing his plays London was full of foreigners, settled in the city, who no doubt formed part of his audience, for they thought that English players had attained great perfection. [4]
The love of literature is not to be attained in this way, nor in any way except by reading the best literature. [4]
I do not know whether the winter plumage is thicker and warmer than the summer plumage, but warmth seems the most probable end attained of a double moult, where there is no change of colour. [1]
His son would know what he meant, and to-morrow he would write down the particulars if he should succeed that night in finding again the substance through which he had attained to the greatest wonder that science had achieved since the days of Adam. [10]
She, too, was kindly disposed toward the Egyptians, among whom her pride and joy, our Moses, had attained such high honors. [10]
Think how long it was before we had attained any real conception of the laws that govern the wonderful agent, which now works in harness with the other trained and subdued forces! [6]
I suppose there is no delusion more general than that of retiring upon a fortune--as if, when gained, a fortune would let a person retire, or, still more improbable, as if it ever were really attained. [4]
When this result is attained it will be time to attack the sound of 'u' with clubs, and make universal the French sound. [4]
Her words were incoherent, but they attained the purpose at which she was aiming. [2]
When he attained his sixteenth birthday, he was declared to be of age, for princes mature earlier than other men. [10]
When he attained his full size he growled, and from that moment, as from instinct, he jumped out at the door and met the bear, who in another leap would have reached the lodge. [5]
He told of his early struggles to climb to his goal, and how at last he attained to within a single step of the coveted summit. [5]
He saw in him a remarkable, clear-thinking man of vast intellect who by his energy and persistence had attained power, which he was using solely for the welfare of Russia. [2]
Power, power, the highest prize on earth, was attained, was his! [10]
But my friend Hey had seen nothing of the world, so I chose a goal more easily attained, and took him with me to the Rhine. [10]
That at least"--and here his eyes flashed for a moment--"I have attained to in these cursed days. [10]
Then, at Schaffhausen, her darling had suddenly been attacked with violent convulsions, and the feeble intellect, which her love had so toilsomely and faithfully waked from its slumber, only too soon attained eternal peace. [10]
He did not hear that Kasana made the prince swear that, if he attained the sovereign power, he would grant her first request. [10]
Buoyant, rapid, sure, he attained the corner of wall and slipped around it. [13]
The pelvis would have to be broadened, the spine peculiarly curved, and the head fixed in an altered position, all which changes have been attained by man. [1]
Man could not have attained his present dominant position in the world without the use of his hands, which are so admirably adapted to act in obedience to his will. [1]
But M. Courbet has attained an immortality like that of Erostratus by the part he took in pulling down the column. [6]
At six-twenty we had attained a height of twelve thousand eight hundred feet, and halted for half an hour; we then continued the ascent without a break until nine-fifty-five, when we stopped for fifty minutes, at a height of fourteen thousand feet. [5]
These precious rolls had aided him to maintain the proud conviction of owing everything which he attained or possessed solely to himself. [10]
Once resigned to further loss, and sure of herself, Jane Withersteen attained a peace of mind that had not been hers for a year. [13]
This eminence Mr. Fox McNaughton had attained by always doing the correct thing. [4]
Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. [7]
Perhaps in the first few pages of 'The Right of Way' portraiture is more nearly reached than in any other of these books, but it was only the nucleus, if I may say so, of a larger development which the original Charley Steele never attained. [11]
Having only riches enough to be able to gratify reasonable desires, and yet make their gratifications always a novelty and a pleasure, the family occupied that just mean in life which is so rarely attained, and still more rarely enjoyed without discontent. [5]
What was the end to be attained by accepting the gage of battle? [6]
I believe the end might be attained by those means, among us as elsewhere; ultimately it will, no doubt, be gained--but not to-day nor to-morrow. [10]
Dinner, served at eleven in the early years of James, attained a degree of epicureanism rivaling dinners of the present day, although the guests ate with their fingers or their knives, forks not coming in till 1611. [4]
We need not discuss the methods by which that purpose is to be attained. [5]
Though, by this course, neither one aim nor the other could be attained, yet it seemed best to the adherents of this third party. [2]
If the war continues long, as it must if the object be not sooner attained, the institution in your States will be extinguished by mere friction and abrasion--by the mere incidents of the war. [7]
Sir Michael, I congratulate you on the dignity you have attained. [6]
Had she not come to know how success even in social life is sometimes attained --the meannesses, the jealousies, the cringing? [4]
It is a chilling thought, unless one can rise to the highest philosophy of life, that even the broad 'a', when it is attained, may not be a permanence. [4]
In anticipating Philip's career, however, it must not be understood that he had attained any wide public recognition. [4]
The direction taken by the bird, which soon vanished in the darkness of the night, indicated approaching misfortune; but she was here only to sow destruction, and the more terrible growth it attained the better! [10]
One may have both, and the one all the more easily for having attained the other. [4]
They no doubt believed that if England attained this commanding position, the accumulated wealth would raise all classes into better conditions. [4]
Had he not been subjected during primeval times to natural selection, assuredly he would never have attained to his present rank. [1]
It may not be attained even by an organization of men united upon certain standards of excellence. [4]
It would still be a hardship if he attained the ability to go in an hour, when I was only able to accomplish the distance in six hours. [4]
Not until I attained years of maturity did I perceive that these conflicts, which, long after, I heard execrated in certain quarters as a blot upon Prussian history, rather deserved the warmest gratitude of the nation. [10]
What hast thou attained relying on reason only? [2]
That aim was attained in the first place of itself, as the French ran away, and so it was only necessary not to stop their flight. [2]
And then he attained his majority at fifteen, and with what weighty cares the man of the 'plus ultra' has loaded his shoulders since that time! [10]
He had just attained his eighteenth year, his name was Ephraim, like that of his forefather, the son of Joseph, and he had come to visit his grandfather. [10]
And she fully attained her end, for he drew back with a look of horror, stretched out his arms to repel her, and exclaimed as he saw her uncontrollable laughter, "Back, demon, back! [10]
Secondly it was attained by the guerrilla warfare which was destroying the French, and thirdly by the fact that a large Russian army was following the French, ready to use its strength in case their movement stopped. [2]
This result was attained because the editors determined that it should be, sent able men to report, and demanded the best work. [4]
Adrian had certainly attained an exceptional position among his class, yet Barbara wondered how he had won this woman, who apparently belonged to a far higher station. [10]
His place was at court, where some day he would win a distinguished position, and nothing could render her happier than the news that he had attained the highest honour, esteem, and fame. [10]
Its trunk, bare as a mast, had grown straight up without separating into branches until it attained the height of a house. [10]
Whoever attained this, arrived at a clear understanding of his own ego (Middendorf's mental understanding of life), perfect harmony with himself and the true sanctification of his soul. [10]
And then we are reminded that the individual human mind long ago attained its height of power and capacity. [4]
Some of them are doing excellent service by accumulating facts which could not otherwise be attained. [6]

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