All 6 Uses of
acquire
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- It was said that so many people had for years past come to confess their sins to Father Zossima and to entreat him for words of advice and healing, that he had acquired the keenest intuition and could tell from an unknown face what a new-comer wanted, and what was the suffering on his conscience.†
Chpt 1
- "Besides its being honestly acquired from a 'sister,' so highly respected and revered, do you know that now I can look after mamma and Nina, my hunchback angel daughter?†
Chpt 4
- A surface polish of courtesy and society manners I did acquire together with the French language.†
Chpt 6 *
- Brothers, love is a teacher; but one must know how to acquire it, for it is hard to acquire, it is dearly bought, it is won slowly by long labor.†
Chpt 6
- Brothers, love is a teacher; but one must know how to acquire it, for it is hard to acquire, it is dearly bought, it is won slowly by long labor.†
Chpt 6
- There Kolya began by carefully investigating every detail connected with the railways, knowing that he could impress his schoolfellows when he got home with his newly acquired knowledge.†
Chpt 10
Definition:
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(acquire) obtain (come into the possession of something)