All 10 Uses of
acquire
in
David Copperfield
- Indeed, I think that most grown men who are remarkable in this respect, may with greater propriety be said not to have lost the faculty, than to have acquired it; the rather, as I generally observe such men to retain a certain freshness, and gentleness, and capacity of being pleased, which are also an inheritance they have preserved from their childhood.†
Chpt 1-3
- I was so conscious of having passed through scenes of which they could have no knowledge, and of having acquired experiences foreign to my age, appearance, and condition as one of them, that I half believed it was an imposture to come there as an ordinary little schoolboy.†
Chpt 16-18
- He always sat in a particular corner, on a particular stool, which was called 'Dick', after him; here he would sit, with his grey head bent forward, attentively listening to whatever might be going on, with a profound veneration for the learning he had never been able to acquire.†
Chpt 16-18
- I have my doubts, too, founded on the acute experience acquired at this period of my life, whether a sound enjoyment of animal food can develop itself freely in any human subject who is always in torment from tight boots.†
Chpt 28-30
- Our ashes, at a future period, will probably be found commingled in the cemetery attached to a venerable pile, for which the spot to which I refer has acquired a reputation, shall I say from China to Peru?†
Chpt 34-36
- 'If you will sometimes think of that, and look about now and then at your papa's housekeeping, and endeavour to acquire a little habit — of accounts, for instance —'†
Chpt 37-39 *
- You were so much in the habit of thinking for me, in the happy old days here, and I came so naturally to you for counsel and support, that I really think I have missed acquiring it.'†
Chpt 37-39
- My eldest daughter attends at five every morning in a neighbouring establishment, to acquire the process — if process it may be called — of milking cows.†
Chpt 52-54
- Mr. Micawber, I must observe, in his adaptation of himself to a new state of society, had acquired a bold buccaneering air, not absolutely lawless, but defensive and prompt.†
Chpt 55-57
- Traddles broke into a rapturous laugh, and informed me that it was Sophy's writing; that Sophy had vowed and declared he would need a copying-clerk soon, and she would be that clerk; that she had acquired this hand from a pattern; and that she could throw off — I forget how many folios an hour.†
Chpt 61-62
Definition:
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(acquire) obtain (come into the possession of something)