There in her lap, his head swathed in bloody bandages, was gasping out his life a man who, however manly he might have been in other respects, had been essentially feminine in his disposition to make love his whole existence; and who had felt that the thwarting of the one natural desire for the woman of his choice was sufficient to dull all the normal manly instincts of ambition and accomplishment.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
For the glory which the world gives to such an accomplishment as the discovery of the North Pole, I care very little, but when the very result of such a victory is used as a whip to inflict cuts that mark my future destiny, I have a right to call a halt.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
I doubt if any man ever lived in the belief of an accomplishment and got so little pleasure, and so much bitterness, from it.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook