All 3 Uses of
attain
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Far from the Madding Crowd
- She had no side-saddle, and it was very apparent that a firm seat upon the smooth leather beneath her was unattainable sideways.†
Chpt 1-3
- And some profess to have attained to the same knowledge by experiment as aforesaid, and jauntily continue their indulgence in such experiments with terrible effect.†
Chpt 25-27 *
- Sometimes throughout a whole season all the swarms would alight on the lowest attainable bough—such as part of a currant-bush or espalier apple-tree; next year they would, with just the same unanimity, make straight off to the uppermost member of some tall, gaunt costard, or quarrenden, and there defy all invaders who did not come armed with ladders and staves to take them.†
Chpt 25-27
Definition:
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(attain) to gain or reach something with effort