All 7 Uses of
attain
in
Jane Eyre
- …place where young ladies sat in the stocks, wore backboards, and were expected to be exceedingly genteel and precise: John Reed hated his school, and abused his master; but John Reed's tastes were no rule for mine, and if Bessie's accounts of school-discipline (gathered from the young ladies of a family where she had lived before coming to Gateshead) were somewhat appalling, her details of certain accomplishments attained by these same young ladies were, I thought, equally attractive.†
Chpt 3
- I was sent to Lowood to get an education; and it would be of no use going away until I have attained that object.†
Chpt 6
- Yes — yes — the end is not so difficult; if I had only a brain active enough to ferret out the means of attaining it.†
Chpt 10 *
- She was very showy, but she was not genuine: she had a fine person, many brilliant attainments; but her mind was poor, her heart barren by nature: nothing bloomed spontaneously on that soil; no unforced natural fruit delighted by its freshness.†
Chpt 18
- To attain this end, are you justified in overleaping an obstacle of custom — a mere conventional impediment which neither your conscience sanctifies nor your judgment approves?†
Chpt 20
- His chest heaved once, as if his large heart, weary of despotic constriction, had expanded, despite the will, and made a vigorous bound for the attainment of liberty.†
Chpt 31
- Mary's is a clergyman, a college friend of her brother's, and, from his attainments and principles, worthy of the connection.†
Chpt 38
Definition:
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(attain) to gain or reach something with effort