All 17 Uses of
acquire
in
Bleak House
- The receiver in the cause has acquired a goodly sum of money by it but has acquired too a distrust of his own mother and a contempt for his own kind.†
Chpt 1-3 *
- The receiver in the cause has acquired a goodly sum of money by it but has acquired too a distrust of his own mother and a contempt for his own kind.†
Chpt 1-3
- She has a fine face—originally of a character that would be rather called very pretty than handsome, but improved into classicality by the acquired expression of her fashionable state.†
Chpt 1-3
- Probably"—Mr. Tulkinghorn examines it as he speaks— "the legal character which it has was acquired after the original hand was formed.†
Chpt 1-3
- But they are my companions everywhere; and by these means they acquire that knowledge of the poor, and that capacity of doing charitable business in general—in short, that taste for the sort of thing—which will render them in after life a service to their neighbours and a satisfaction to themselves.†
Chpt 7-9
- As to the little book to which the man on the floor had referred, we acquired a knowledge of it afterwards, and Mr. Jarndyce said he doubted if Robinson Crusoe could have read it, though he had had no other on his desolate island.†
Chpt 7-9
- It is quite dark now, and the gas-lamps have acquired their full effect.†
Chpt 10-12
- All that can be acquired, he has acquired.†
Chpt 13-15
- All that can be acquired, he has acquired.†
Chpt 13-15
- Upon that, he shut himself up for a few weeks with some books and some bones and seemed to acquire a considerable fund of information with great rapidity.†
Chpt 16-18
- And then he spoke so ingenuously and sincerely of the sacrifice he made in withdrawing himself for a time from Ada, and of the earnestness with which he aspired—as in thought he always did, I know full well—to repay her love, and to ensure her happiness, and to conquer what was amiss in himself, and to acquire the very soul of decision, that he made my heart ache keenly, sorely.†
Chpt 22-24
- He's too old to acquire the knack of it now—and too drunk."†
Chpt 31-33
- Caddy, while she was observant of her husband and was evidently founded upon him, had acquired a grace and self-possession of her own, which, united to her pretty face and figure, was uncommonly agreeable.†
Chpt 37-39
- Both before and after saying it she remains absorbed, but at length moves, and turns, unshaken in her natural and acquired presence, towards the door.†
Chpt 40-42
- Further conversation is prevented, for the time, by the necessity under which Mr. Bagnet finds himself of directing the whole force of his mind to the dinner, which is a little endangered by the dry humour of the fowls in not yielding any gravy, and also by the made gravy acquiring no flavour and turning out of a flaxen complexion.†
Chpt 49-51
- Volumnia's pet little scream acquires a considerable augmentation of reality from this surprise, and the house is quickly in commotion.†
Chpt 55-57
- This active police-officer and intelligent man has acquired, in the exercise of his art, a strong faith in money; he finds it very useful to him, and he makes it very useful to society.†
Chpt 61-63
Definition:
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(acquire) obtain (come into the possession of something)