After all, the Crevequers had never failed, till now, to achieve any intimacy....
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
The failure to achieve friendship had not entered into their view of life as it was lived by them.
"The Furnace"
Rose Macaulay
With all conditions in my favor, might I not, by one powerful effort, achieve the thing that had haunted me for years?
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook