All 4 Uses of
procure
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version
- He procured from Paris no less than nine large-paper copies of the first edition, and had them bound in different colours, so that they might suit his various moods and the changing fancies of a nature over which he seemed, at times, to have almost entirely lost control.†
Chpt 11
- He procured from Amsterdam three emeralds of extraordinary size and richness of colour, and had a turquoise de la vieille roche that was the envy of all the connoisseurs.†
Chpt 11 *
- I should fancy that crime was to them what art is to us, simply a method of procuring extraordinary sensations.†
Chpt 19
- A method of procuring sensations?†
Chpt 19
Definition:
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(procure) get by special effort