Sentence Examples

1. The results attained by them are not unfrequently surprising, but, for the most part, are brought about by simple diligence and activity.
2. Poe has attained an individual eminence in our literature which he will keep.
3. I like him especially for one master stroke of cant, by which he has attained his reputation for ingenuity.
4. The road here attained the highest elevation of the journey, eight thousand and ninety-two feet above the level of the sea.
5. At the spot thus attained a second peg was driven, and about this, as a centre, a rude circle, about four feet in diameter, described.
6. Nor will it be a sufficient excuse to say that the chief object well-ordered governments have in view when they permit plays to be performed in public is to entertain the people with some harmless amusement occasionally, and keep it from those evil humours which idleness is apt to engender and that, as this may be attained by any sort of play, good or bad, there is no need to lay down laws, or bind those who write or act them to make them as they ought to be made, since, as I say, the object sought for may be secured by any sort.
7. I had by this time, however, attained too great an elevation to be any longer uneasy on this head.
8. Affairs went on thus until the latter had attained her twenty-second year, when her great beauty attracted the notice of a perfumer, who occupied one of the shops in the basement of the Palais Royal, and whose custom lay chiefly among the desperate adventurers infesting that neighborhood.
9. To this I would reply that the same end would be, beyond all comparison, better attained by means of good plays than by those that are not so for after listening to an artistic and properly constructed play, the hearer will come away enlivened by the jests, instructed by the serious parts, full of admiration at the incidents, his wits sharpened by the arguments, warned by the tricks, all the wiser for the examples, inflamed against vice, and in love with virtue for in all these ways a good play will stimulate the mind of the hearer be he ever so boorish or dull and of all impossibilities the greatest is that a play endowed with all these qualities will not entertain, satisfy, and please much more than one wanting in them, like the greater number of those which are commonly acted now-a-days.
10. We have attained the idea either of a fatal accident under the roof of Madame Deluc, or of a murder perpetrated, in the thicket at the Barrière du Roule, by a lover, or at least by an intimate and secret associate of the deceased.