All 8 Uses of
acquire
in
Arrowsmith
- On evenings when the Doc was away, Martin would acquire prestige among the trembling Gang by leading them into the unutterable darkness and scratching a sulfur match on the skeleton's jaw.†
Chpt 1
- He gave Martin a refined version of a leer, and set himself to acquiring her for his own uses.†
Chpt 7 *
- He was as noisy as ever, but more sure, glowing with schemes for immediately acquiring large sums of money.†
Chpt 9
- The only variation is the Weeks in which the object is not to acquire money immediately by the sale of tags but by general advertising to get more of it later.†
Chpt 21
- Martin sought to acquire a delight in giving long strong pulls all together, but he felt like a man who has been dragooned into wearing yellow tights at a civic pageant.†
Chpt 22
- He had acquired a reasonable scientific French and German.†
Chpt 28
- Then Ross McGurk, over a comfortable steak, hinted, not too diffidently, that this was the opportunity for the Institute to acquire world-fame.†
Chpt 32
- Ardently, and quite humorlessly, as he sat stiffly in a stale Pullman chaircar with his feet up on his suit-case, he pictured himself wearing a club-tie (presumably first acquiring the tie and the club), playing golf in plus-fours, and being entertaining about dear old R. G. and incredibly witty about dear old Latham Ireland's aged Rolls-Royce.†
Chpt 37
Definition:
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(acquire) obtain (come into the possession of something)