Feats

Food gives life, life gives strength and strength gives great feats.

The old man evidently thought that his son was exaggerating in his description of one or two trivial feats which I had performed.

As I have mentioned somewhere in these incoherent memoirs, the outbursts of passionate energy when he performed the remarkable feats with which his name is associated were followed by reactions of lethargy during which he would lie about with his violin and his books, hardly moving save from the sofa to the table.

Chess players with prodigious memories perform incredible feats, such as playing blindly, at the same time, a large number of matches.

Ziri's cat performs particularly challenging feats.

I travelled to Amsterdam on my own with a big backpack. The quaint canals and the tree-lined streets always make a good photographic theme. There were lots of Indonesian restaurants there. Inside that labyrinth was my hotel, Hotel Kabul. I met an Egyptian traveller there. At a place of many pigeons, I asked a bespectacled South Asian loiterer to take my picture amongst the birds that he was feeding. I visited the Sex Museum. I just liked walking around, looking at the antique buildings. There were a lot of bicyclists. Long ago, in grade school in Canada, I wrote a geography report about the Netherlands, and I learned about their engineering feats of reclaiming land from the water and, of course, the tulips.

Taking over 30 years to build, tens of thousands of workers—and more than 27 million kilograms of dynamite—the Panama Canal is considered one of the biggest engineering feats of the 20th century.

Felix was boating about his feats.

In southern Lebanon, Hezbollah fighters proved themselves to be capable of superhuman feats during battle.

One of the most successful and enduring feats of interplanetary exploration, NASA's Opportunity rover mission is at an end after almost 15 years exploring the surface of Mars and helping lay the groundwork for NASA's return to the Red Planet.