Both Uses of
procure
in
1984 by Orwell
- The pen was an archaic instrument, seldom used even for signatures, and he had procured one, furtively and with some difficulty, simply because of a feeling that the beautiful creamy paper deserved to be written on with a real nib instead of being scratched with an ink-pencil.†
p. 6..9 *
- But it needed desperate courage to kill yourself in a world where firearms, or any quick and certain poison, were completely unprocurable.†
p. 102..5
Definition:
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(procure) get by special effort