All 5 Uses of
acquire
in
Great Expectations
- Whatever I acquired, I tried to impart to Joe.†
Chpt 15 *
- I never knew Joe to remember anything from one Sunday to another, or to acquire, under my tuition, any piece of information whatever.†
Chpt 15
- It was a nice little dinner,—seemed to me then a very Lord Mayor's Feast,—and it acquired additional relish from being eaten under those independent circumstances, with no old people by, and with London all around us.†
Chpt 22
- No. In some of her looks and gestures there was that tinge of resemblance to Miss Havisham which may often be noticed to have been acquired by children, from grown person with whom they have been much associated and secluded, and which, when childhood is passed, will produce a remarkable occasional likeness of expression between faces that are otherwise quite different.†
Chpt 29
- At about the same time, the eyes on the wall acquired a new expression, and in every one of those staring rounds I saw written, DON'T GO HOME.†
Chpt 45
Definition:
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(acquire) obtain (come into the possession of something)