"Arrive at" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... contrived not to appear as surprised as she was by this too discerning remark. She was so young that she did not before know that children and child-like folk sometimes divine by instinct the same conclusions that very clever people arrive at by much reasoning and observation. She felt decidedly uncomfortable at this explanation of Joost's frequent contemplations ...
— The Good Comrade • Una L. Silberrad
... Falsehood dwell undisturbed and unseparated. The vast and dark Poetry around us—the Poetry of Modern Civilisation and Daily Existence, is shut out from us in much, by the shadowy giants of Prejudice and Fear. He who would arrive at the Fairy Land must face the Phantoms. Betimes, I set myself to the task of investigating the motley world to which our progress in humanity—has attained, caring little what misrepresentation I incurred, what hostility I provoked, in searching through a devious ...
— Night and Morning, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... years' absence, (to a day, on the 2d of July, before which we shall not arrive at Portsmouth,) I am retracing my way ...
— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. II - With His Letters and Journals • Thomas Moore
... finger-post on the road of language pointing in the right direction. It is hoped that they who go according to its index will arrive at the goal of correct ...
— How to Speak and Write Correctly • Joseph Devlin
... of Sylla's dictatorship,[45] a strong desire of seizing the government possessed him, nor did he at all care, provided that he secured power[46] for himself, by what means he might arrive at it. His violent spirit was daily more and more hurried on by the diminution of his patrimony, and by his consciousness of guilt; both which evils he had increased by those practices which I have mentioned above. The corrupt morals of the state, too, which ...
— Conspiracy of Catiline and The Jurgurthine War • Sallust
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