All 19 Uses of
attain
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- "Nay, nay!" cried Caderousse, smiling, "you have not attained that honor yet.†
Chpt 5-6
- I told you Villefort was ambitious, and to attain this ambition Villefort would sacrifice everything, even his father.†
Chpt 9-10 *
- "I was reflecting, in the first place," replied Dantes, "upon the enormous degree of intelligence and ability you must have employed to reach the high perfection to which you have attained.†
Chpt 17-18
- Already Dantes had visited this maritime Bourse two or three times, and seeing all these hardy free-traders, who supplied the whole coast for nearly two hundred leagues in extent, he had asked himself what power might not that man attain who should give the impulse of his will to all these contrary and diverging minds.†
Chpt 22-23
- The boat, indeed, seemed to be animated with almost human intelligence, so promptly did it obey the slightest touch; and Dantes required but a short trial of his beautiful craft to acknowledge that the Genoese had not without reason attained their high reputation in the art of shipbuilding.†
Chpt 25-26
- But, then, by what visible steps has he attained this high fortune or high position?†
Chpt 27-28
- "Really, sir," retorted the count, "have you attained the eminent situation in which you are, without having admitted, or even without having met with exceptions? and do you never use your eyes, which must have acquired so much finesse and certainty, to divine, at a glance, the kind of man by whom you are confronted?†
Chpt 47-48
- This alone can stop me in my onward career, before I have attained the goal at which I aim, for all the rest I have reduced to mathematical terms.†
Chpt 47-48
- Such felicity seems above all price—as a thing impossible and unattainable.†
Chpt 51-52
- To attain such a point, the blood must be heated to thirty-six degrees, the pulse be, at least, at ninety, and the feelings excited beyond the ordinary limit.†
Chpt 51-52
- As regarded her attainments, the only fault to be found with them was the same that a fastidious connoisseur might have found with her beauty, that they were somewhat too erudite and masculine for so young a person.†
Chpt 53-54
- What must I do to attain such sublimity?†
Chpt 53-54
- M. Danglars would give double that sum to attain the same end.†
Chpt 67-68
- Andrea had, then, in a fortnight, attained a very fair position.†
Chpt 75-76
- Ma foi, I haven't consulted my daughter; but if she has good taste"— "Oh," said Monte Cristo, "my fondness may blind me, but I assure you I consider Morcerf a charming young man who will render your daughter happy and will sooner or later attain a certain amount of distinction, and his father's position is good."†
Chpt 75-76
- "Well," cried he, with that benevolent politeness which distinguished his salutation from the common civilities of the world, "my cavalier has attained his object.†
Chpt 87-88
- Alas, it is not the death of the body I regret; for is not the destruction of the vital principle, the repose to which everything is tending, to which every unhappy being aspires,—is not this the repose of matter after which I so long sighed, and which I was seeking to attain by the painful process of starvation when Faria appeared in my dungeon?†
Chpt 89-90
- You see, I have been a soldier ever since I attained manhood.†
Chpt 105-106
- Morrel, I possess nearly a hundred millions and I give them to you; with such a fortune you can attain every wish.†
Chpt 117
Definition:
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(attain) to gain or reach something with effort