He alone during the retreat of the French said that all our maneuvers are useless, everything is being
accomplished of itself better than we could desire; that the enemy must be offered "a golden bridge"; that neither the Tarutino, the Vyazma, nor the Krasnoe battles were necessary; that we must keep some force to reach the frontier with, and that he would not sacrifice a single Russian for ten Frenchmen.
"I do not know; but in some way I am sure it can be
accomplished. To-morrow I will make a journey to the castle of Glinda the Good, and ask her advice."
She thought it wisest to make her way as best she could out of the forest, and then to pursue the fugitives once more and accomplish their destruction either by force or cunning.
But before they had accomplished half the way they heard again the rustle of her garments and her muttered curses pursuing them closely.
The rest of our descent was easily
accomplished, and in half an hour after regaining the ravine we had partaken of our evening morsel, built our hut as usual, and crawled under its shelter.
They
accomplished the purpose, for the bleeding soon stopped.
The great problem is
accomplished. We have crossed the Atlantic - fairly and easily crossed it in a balloon !
"It is amazing to me," said Bingley, "how young ladies can have patience to be so very
accomplished as they all are."
The one was a well-to- do country gentleman, the other a beautiful and
accomplished woman to whom he was passionately attached with what I now know to have been a jealous and exacting devotion.
When this work was
accomplished, the miners resumed their picks and cut away the rock from underneath the wheel itself, taking care to support it as they advanced upon blocks of great thickness.
And the end or use of a horse or of anything would be that which could not be
accomplished, or not so well
accomplished, by any other thing?
These, then, are the three objects which the inclinations of tyrants desire to see
accomplished; for all their tyrannical plans tend to promote one of these three ends, that their people may neither have mutual confidence, power, nor spirit.
Apart from his main vocation, which was the service of his Tsar and the fatherland, he always set himself some particular aim, and however unimportant it was, devoted himself completely to it and lived for it until it was
accomplished. And as soon as it was attained another aim would immediately present itself, replacing its predecessor.
The afternoon would show far more
accomplished. And it did; for we returned at one o'clock, rested and strengthened by a hearty dinner.
Vernon on being about to receive into your family the most
accomplished coquette in England.
