All 5 Uses of
procure
in
Bleak House
- Winking cousins, bat-like in the candle glare, crowd round to give it; Volumnia (always ready for something better if procurable) takes another, a very mild sip of which contents her; Lady Dedlock, graceful, self-possessed, looked after by admiring eyes, passes away slowly down the long perspective by the side of that nymph, not at all improving her as a question of contrast.†
Chpt 40-42
- I am unwilling to place him in a hospital, even if I could procure him immediate admission, because I foresee that he would not stay there many hours if he could be so much as got there.†
Chpt 46-48
- Allan takes the opportunity of going out to procure some restorative medicines, and obtaining them near at hand, soon returns to find the trooper walking up and down the gallery, and to fall into step and walk with him.†
Chpt 46-48
- I will spend all I have, and thankfully, to procure it.†
Chpt 55-57 *
- If we ain't good enough for you, go and procure somebody that is good enough.†
Chpt 64-65
Definition:
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(procure) get by special effort