All 8 Uses of
attain
in
Bleak House
- He is a man of attainments and of captivating manners.†
Chpt 4-6
- I really was frightened at the thought of the importance I was attaining and the number of things that were being confided to me.†
Chpt 7-9 *
- That without any affectation of disparaging such professional distinction as I may have attained (which our friend Mr. Carstone will have many opportunities of estimating), I am not so weak—no, really," said Mr. Badger to us generally, "so unreasonable—as to put my reputation on the same footing with such first-rate men as Captain Swosser and Professor Dingo.†
Chpt 13-15
- In the active superintendence of this young person, Judy Smallweed appears to attain a perfectly geological age and to date from the remotest periods.†
Chpt 19-21
- Mr. Bagnet's gravity has now attained its profoundest point.†
Chpt 34-36
- Mrs. Skimpole sighed, I thought, as if she would have been glad to strike out this item in the family attainments.†
Chpt 43-45
- It dwelt on my being young, and he past the prime of life; on his having attained a ripe age, while I was a child; on his writing to me with a silvered head, and knowing all this so well as to set it in full before me for mature deliberation.†
Chpt 43-45
- Mr. Bagnet, being deeply convinced that to have a pair of fowls for dinner is to attain the highest pitch of imperial luxury, invariably goes forth himself very early in the morning of this day to buy a pair; he is, as invariably, taken in by the vendor and installed in the possession of the oldest inhabitants of any coop in Europe.†
Chpt 49-51
Definition:
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(attain) to gain or reach something with effort