Reach ( page 300 ).
Questions.
1. What is it to reach in the sense here considered? 2. What is it to arrive? 3. What does attain add to the meaning of arrive? What does gain add?
Examples.
And grasping down the boughs
I ——ed the shore.
He gathered the ripe nuts in the fall,
And berries that grew by fence and wall
So high she could not —— them at all.
The heights by great men ——ed and kept
Were not ——ed by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.
It is only in this way that we can hope to —— at truth.