All 15 Uses of
acquire
in
The House of Mirth
- It was not that Miss Bart was afraid of losing her newly-acquired hold over Mr. Gryce.†
Chpt 1.3
- She knew she could not afford it, and she was afraid of acquiring so expensive a taste.
Chpt 1.3 *acquiring = obtaining
- I very nearly acquired the jargon at Silverton's age, and I know how names can alter the colour of beliefs."†
Chpt 1.6
- In ordinary talk they might have passed unheeded; but following on her prolonged pause they acquired a special meaning.†
Chpt 1.8
- In truth, however, she was fast wearying of her solitary existence with Mrs. Peniston, and only the excitement of spending her newly-acquired money lightened the dulness of the days.†
Chpt 1.10
- Though usually adroit enough where her own interests were concerned, she made the mistake, not uncommon to persons in whom the social habits are instinctive, of supposing that the inability to acquire them quickly implies a general dulness.†
Chpt 1.10
- The Welly Brys, after much debate, and anxious counsel with their newly acquired friends, had decided on the bold move of giving a general entertainment.†
Chpt 1.12
- She could not acquire the air of doing things because she wanted to, and making her choice the final seal of their fitness.†
Chpt 2.1
- There she had been sorely tempted to linger on in a society which asked of her only to amuse and charm it, without enquiring too curiously how she had acquired her gift for doing so; but Selden, before they parted, had pressed on her the urgent need of returning at once to her aunt, and Lord Hubert, when he presently reappeared in London, abounded in the same counsel.†
Chpt 2.4
- The Dorset place was in the immediate neighbourhood of the Gormers' newly-acquired estate, and in her motor-flights thither with Mrs. Gormer, Lily had caught one or two passing glimpses of the couple; but they moved in so different an orbit that she had not considered the possibility of a direct encounter.†
Chpt 2.6
- Her sense of irony never quite deserted her, and she could still note, with self-directed derision, the abnormal value suddenly acquired by the most tiresome and insignificant details of her former life.†
Chpt 2.8
- Rosedale brushed aside the topic with an air of its unimportance which gave a sense of the immense perspective he had acquired.†
Chpt 2.10
- She knew that to Gerty and Mrs. Fisher she was only passing through a temporary period of probation, since they believed that the apprenticeship she was serving at Mme. Regina's would enable her, when Mrs. Peniston's legacy was paid, to realize the vision of the green-and-white shop with the fuller competence acquired by her preliminary training.†
Chpt 2.10
- But the doorstep, as she drew near it, acquired a sudden interest from the fact that it was occupied—and indeed filled—by the conspicuous figure of Mr. Rosedale, whose presence seemed to take on an added amplitude from the meanness of his surroundings.†
Chpt 2.11
- As he advanced in social experience this uniqueness had acquired a greater value for him, as though he were a collector who had learned to distinguish minor differences of design and quality in some long-coveted object.†
Chpt 2.11
Definition:
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(acquire) obtain (come into the possession of something)