After some flounderings I achieved safety and the awe-stricken comments of the maids-of-honour, as wet as I have ever been in my life, and about five times as cold.
How she had achieved it is of no consequence; the distressing fact remained that she was there, seated, shuddering, upon a space of wet stone no larger than a sixpence, and had to be accepted as one of the party.
The success achieved by the National League in its efforts to develop base ball as the national game became apparent in its rapid growth in popular favor, and the establishment of clubs and associations throughout the various States.
To professional base ball, as governed by the existing National League, is mainly due the great popularity our national game has achieved within the past twenty years.
It was achieved without loss, unopposed, and was quite of the nature of a surprise.
At the age of seventeen he had already achieved note as a scholar and a Hellenist, with his Essay Upon Popular Errors Of The Ancients (1815).
While Schopenhauer has achieved a certain literary popularity, Leopardi has remained, even for scholars, in the shade.
You smile, my Lady; but some of our very first men have achieved the triumphs of the turf.
Nor was his dread without a certain dash of vanity, as he thought of the contrast between the humble place he was perhaps about to occupy at a great man's table, and the proud one he had achieved in the ranks of scholarship and science.
Regan's introduction at the eating-joint had been achieved without the embarrassment Stover had feared.
And thus, behold the pebble had achieved its purpose, for, next moment Cleone was lying in his arms, and for neither of them was life or the world to be ever the same thereafter.
But had you constantly doubted your powers and counted failure even as a possibility, you might still have dreamed of your success--but never achieved it.
But the maritime power of Sparta was then so weak, having not yet recovered from the ruinous defeat at Kyzikus, that he achieved little or nothing.
As the success had been achieved by the joint exertions of all the allies, so the fruits of it belonged in equity to all of them jointly, not to Sparta alone.
Whatever may have been the success of Protagoras or any other among these sophists, the mighty originality of Sokratês achieved results not only equal at the time, but incomparably grander and more lasting in reference to the future.
The people had refused to listen to these, in order that he might have a fair trial, and might verify the title, claimed for him by his friends, to be judged only by his subsequent exploits, achieved since the year 411 B.
I do not mean to excuse the trick, but as for a name and a family, in the first place Hans is my son, and I have achievedsomewhat in the scientific world, and in the second place he himself is not without fame in another domain.
The diplomat had achieved his purpose without mentioning what was not to be mentioned.
In the case of each of these great workers inward power was matured and harmonised by outward work, and through work each achieved freedom.
In spite of his invalidism he achieved more than most men who live out the full period of life in complete possession of their powers.
He had charge of many arduous posts and achieved many military and naval successes.
Since by these single champions what wonders were done, What may not be achieved by our Thirty and One?
The men too seemed much excited by what they had achievedso far that morning.
It was the midday Sabbath hour, when the bells at last were silent; and since it was fine August weather, the sky had achieved a watery and pious blue like a nun's eyes.
The orchestral effect achieved what the solo had failed to achieve.
Taking it altogether 'Sinister Street' is the biggest thing attempted and achieved in recent fiction.
All great art is achieved at the expense--either by suppression or enlargement--of something precious.
Touch was the shibboleth of that school, not tone; and technic was oftenachieved at the expense of more spiritual qualities.
Queen, with her camarilla of priests and bleeding nuns, and at last achieved her freedom.
They have had enough of civil war, enough of tyranny; they have achieved freedom, and want nothing so much as to taste of it in quietness.
The Boiling Fountain and Bleeding Tomb adventures, also told in the two first, partly achieved in the Lancelot, and achievement summarily announced in Queste.
To others, the thought of the work achieved in the vanished years is the most real and abiding of their possessions.
That the man who has achieved perfect Life possesses happiness is proved by his no longer desiring anything.
There is, however, this difference, that an art is incomplete or imperfect if it lack some part, while every soul is perfect, and while every organism that has not achieved the goal of its nature is an imperfect being.
Nevertheless, he achieved some permanent work, that will never be forgotten; for instance: 1.
It is fair to presume that in thirty centuries history will not get done in admiring these men who attempted what the world regarded as the impossible & achieved it.
He was entertained that evening by the Labinnah Club (whose name was achieved by a backward spelling of Hannibal), where he found most of the survivors of his youth.
It is an odd reflection that they would have achieved immortality just the same if they had contented themselves respectively with the creation of Madame Marnefle and the girl with the golden eyes, D'Artagnan and Chicot.
Flamby achieved composure, and hammer in hand she went to admit her visitors.
Delilah, a lyrical drama, written in French, and first published in Paris, achieved for this darling of Minerva a reputation which no man is entitled to expect during his lifetime.
Their work is often excellently and fancifully designed, but it lacks that exquisite perfection of execution achieved by the incomparable craftsmen of France.
Many Copenhagen Jews achieved distinction as manufacturers, merchants and bankers, and among famous Jewish men of letters may be specially named Georg Brandes.
Other virtuosi, such as Eulenstein, a native of Wurtemberg, achieved the same result by placing the variously tuned Jew's harps upon the table in front of him, taking them up and setting them down as required.
So "the Pious" achievedthe object for which presumably they took up arms.
He had achieved his object, but he roared in anger again at hearing that the mate had not returned with those men.
And he had achieved his purpose, alone and on foot--seeing marvellous things, doing marvellous things all the way.
Also instead of a shirt you shall wear this garment until you have achievedyour quest," and Sir Bors took off his clothes, and put on instead a scarlet coat.
After this King Arthur would have none to go with him on his quest, and many strange adventures he achieved before he reached the chapel of St. Augustine, which was in the midst of the White Forest.
He had already achieved fame by his deeds in the field and tourney, and the Queen marvelled at the likeness he bore to Sir Lancelot.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "achieved" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: discharged; executed; discharged; executed
