attained

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Through simple love and simple faith, this man Attained a height above the hope of kings.

From The New Morning Poems by Noyes, Alfred

"Attained" sounds as if it were ideals, you know.

From The Sweet Girl Graduates by Woodman, Rea

O wealth and sovereign power and high success Attained through wisdom and admired of men, What boundless jealousies environ you!

From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles

Has a Rate of Speed Equal to Ninety Miles an Hour, ever Been Attained by Railroad Locomotive?—It is extremely doubtful if any locomotive ever made so high a speed.

From Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Burroughs, Barkham

In business at Williamstown, Mass. Attained his boyhood ambition and married Lizzie "Tole," Ed's sister.

From The Real Diary of a Real Boy by Shute, Henry A. (Henry Augustus)