All 3 Uses of
acquire
in
The Broken Gun
- If the Wells family had never tried to sell any of their land perhaps there had never been a title search; and even if there had been, the methods of acquiring land in pioneer days had been irregular, to say the least.†
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- When one has lived in the wilderness one acquires a quality of stillness, and one learns to listen.†
- When one has ridden such trails for miles across country, one acquires almost an instinct for them.†
Definition:
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(acquire) obtain (come into the possession of something)