Citations:accomplish

English citations of accomplish

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• 1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.

  These things being added to my desire of having a good quantity for store, and to secure a constant supply, I resolved not to taste any of this crop but to preserve it all for seed against the next season; and in the meantime to employ all my study and hours of working to accomplish this great work of providing myself with corn and bread.

• 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.

  Neither yours nor any man's death is needed to consummate the series of my being and accomplish that which must be done, but it requires my own.

• 1851 — Herman Melville. Moby Dick.

  To accomplish his object Ahab must use tools; and of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are most apt to get out of order.

  Yet habit — strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish? — Gayer sallies, more merry mirth, better jokes, and brighter repartees, you never heard over your mahogany, than you will hear over the half-inch white cedar of the whale-boat, when thus hung in hangman's nooses; and, like the six burghers of Calais before King Edward, the six men composing the crew pull into the jaws of death, with a halter around every neck, as you may say.