All 5 Uses of
attain
in
The Man of the Forest
- An' Nature has only one mission—toward greater strength, virility, efficiency—absolute perfection, which is unattainable.†
Chpt 10
- Stars were unattainable; life could not be fathomed; the secret of nature did not abide alone on the earth—these theories were not any more impossible of proving than that Helen Rayner might be for him.†
Chpt 15
- Man must be given imperious longings for the unattainable.†
Chpt 15
- It needed, then, only the memory of an unattainable woman to render solitude passionately desired by a man, yet almost unendurable.†
Chpt 15
- And that growth toward absolute silence continued, yet absolute silence was never attained.†
Chpt 21 *
Definition:
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(attain) to gain or reach something with effort