Usage examples "accomplishment":
- The aristocracy in Charles's days had been under the impression that poetry, or at least verse writing, was becoming an accomplishment for a nobleman. - "English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century", Leslie Stephen.
- The pulpit, met by its own weapons and in its own field, will have to a certainty to measure its strength against it; and the standard of pulpit accomplishment and of theological education, instead of being lowered, must in consequence be greatly elevated. - "Leading Articles on Various Subjects", Hugh Miller.
- Good horsemanship was not so common among the young men of the place and its neighborhood that Maurice's accomplishment in that way could be overlooked. - "A Mortal Antipathy", Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr..
