All 4 Uses of
acquire
in
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- This new interest was a valued novelty in whistling, which he had just acquired from a negro, and he was suffering to practise it undisturbed.†
Chpt 1
- And yet Mary had acquired two Bibles in this way—it was the patient work of two years—and a boy of German parentage had won four or five.†
Chpt 4 *
- Mr. Walters was very earnest of mien, and very sincere and honest at heart; and he held sacred things and places in such reverence, and so separated them from worldly matters, that unconsciously to himself his Sunday-school voice had acquired a peculiar intonation which was wholly absent on week-days.†
Chpt 4
- The other pirates envied him this majestic vice, and secretly resolved to acquire it shortly.†
Chpt 13
Definition:
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(acquire) obtain (come into the possession of something)