All 4 Uses of
procure
in
The Idiot
- I had procured it while still a boy, at that droll age when the stories of duels and highwaymen begin to delight one, and when one imagines oneself nobly standing fire at some future day, in a duel.†
Chpt 3.7 *procured = got by special effort
- Hippolyte informed him, as he took his leave, that Ptitsin "had been kind enough to offer him a corner," and did not say a word about Gania, though Gania had procured his invitation, and himself came to fetch him away.†
Chpt 4.2
- Lebedeff immediately procured the services of an old doctor, and carried the latter away to Pavlofsk to see the prince, by way of viewing the ground, as it were, and to give him (Lebedeff) counsel as to whether the thing was to be done or not.†
Chpt 4.10
- Yet this was an explanation that did not procure him any peace of mind.†
Chpt 4.10
Definition:
get by special effort