1 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.
2 Having gained possession of these half-crumbling papers, Arkady felt, as it were, soothed, just as though he had caught a glimpse of the goal towards which he ought now to go.
3 The French army pushed on to Moscow, its goal, its impetus ever increasing as it neared its aim, just as the velocity of a falling body increases as it approaches the earth.
4 Behind it were seven hundred miles of hunger-stricken, hostile country; ahead were a few dozen miles separating it from its goal.
5 Coming out onto the highroad the French fled with surprising energy and unheard-of rapidity toward the goal they had fixed on.
6 The French crowd fled at a continually increasing speed and all its energy was directed to reaching its goal.
7 Paris, the ultimate goal, is reached.
8 But as soon as the necessity for a general European war presented itself he appeared in his place at the given moment and, uniting the nations of Europe, led them to the goal.
9 He and Pierre were borne along lightly and joyously, nearer and nearer to their goal.
10 Italy is your goal; wooing the winds you shall go to Italy, and enter her harbours unhindered.
11 Here lord Aeneas set up a goal of leafy ilex, a mark for the sailors to know whence to return, where to wheel their long course round.
12 Between Gyas' ship and the echoing crags he scrapes through inside on his left, flashes past his leader, and leaving the goal behind is in safe water.
13 And now on the very goal Cloanthus alone is left; him he pursues and presses hard, straining all his strength.
14 This said, they take their place, and the signal once heard, dart over the course and leave the line, pouring forth like a storm-cloud while they mark the goal.
15 They, where the goal of their way lies nearest, bear through the brushwood in armed array.