All 5 Uses
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- The Ghost has attained the southernmost point of the arc she is describing across the Pacific, and is already beginning to edge away to the west and north toward some lone island, it is rumoured, where she will fill her water-casks before proceeding to the season's hunt along the coast of Japan.†
Chpt 11attained = gained or reached something with effort
- For he has what they have not—purpose, something to do and be done, an all-absorbing end to strive to attain, the desire to kill me, the hope that he may kill me.†
Chpt 16 *attain = gain or reach something with effort
- If ever Wolf Larsen attained the summit of living, he attained it then.†
Chpt 26attained = gained or reached something with effort
- If ever Wolf Larsen attained the summit of living, he attained it then.†
Chpt 26
- "And the sun is gone," she said, her eyes still fixed upon our island, where we had proved our mastery over matter and attained to the truest comradeship that may fall to man and woman.†
Chpt 39
Definitions:
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(1)
(attain) to gain or reach something with effort
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)