1 And they all struggled and suffered and tormented one another and injured their souls, their eternal souls, for the attainment of benefits which endure but for an instant.
2 Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
3 There never was or could have been such an aim, for it would have been senseless and its attainment quite impossible.
4 His chest heaved once, as if his large heart, weary of despotic constriction, had expanded, despite the will, and made a vigorous bound for the attainment of liberty.
5 In his own case, Alexey Alexandrovitch saw that a legal divorce, that is to say, one in which only the guilty wife would be repudiated, was impossible of attainment.
6 Ellen had never told her that desire and attainment were two different matters; life had not taught her that the race was not to the swift.
7 D'Artagnan bowed without replying, feeling his desire to don the Musketeer's uniform vastly increased by the great difficulties which preceded the attainment of it.
8 The ideal of liberty demanded for its attainment powerful means, and these the Fifteenth Amendment gave him.
9 Placing one foot upon the step by which the gentry mounted, she covered the said step with mud, and then, ascending higher, attained the desired position beside the coachman.
10 Thus, in time, his gains attained the amount of five roubles; whereupon he made himself a purse and then started to fill a second receptacle of the kind.
11 Nor can any one but God say to what a figure the fortunes of the pair might not eventually have attained, had not an awkward contretemps cut right across their arrangements.
12 Eventually the youth's aversion almost attained the point of hysteria; until he felt that, come what might, he MUST insult the fellow in some fashion.
13 That is to say, things are to be attained only by putting forth one's whole strength, since nothing short of one's whole strength will bring one to the desired goal.
14 Being accustomed to make conquests, in this instance, too, he soon attained his object, but his easy success did not damp his ardour.
15 He loves the process of attaining, but does not quite like to have attained, and that, of course, is very absurd.