All 14 Uses
procure
in
The Swiss Family Robinson
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- However, we must contrive something, and first let each try to procure what will be of most use to us.'†
Chpt 1
- Ed. 'Well, done, Franz!' cried I, 'these fish hooks, which you the youngest have found, may contribute more than anything else in the ship to save our lives by procuring food for us.†
Chpt 1procuring = getting by special effort
- I next procured a long thin plank on which my tubs could be fixed, and the two ends of this I bent upwards so as to form a keel.†
Chpt 1 *procured = got by special effort
- Ernest then drew from his pocket the large shell he had procured for his own use, and scooping up a good quantity of soup he put it down to cool, smiling at his own foresight.†
Chpt 1
- What beautiful and warm furs are procured by hunters just in those countries where no other covering would defend the inhabitants from the wintery cold!†
Chpt 3
- So saying, I procured some wine and butter and anointing the wing, which though hurt was not broken, I bound it up, and then took the bird to the stream where I fastened it by a long cord to a stake and left it to shift for itself.†
Chpt 3
- 'Ah, my little boy, your words reproach me,' returned I. 'While eagerly striving to procure from the ship would feed our bodies and provide for their comfort, I blush to think that I have neglected the Bread of Life, the word of God.†
Chpt 4
- As the figs on which these birds came to feed were only just beginning to ripen, it was probable that they would soon flock in numbers to our trees; and by waiting until we could procure them in large quantities, we might provide ourselves with valuable food for the rainy season, by placing them, when half cooked, in casks with melted lard or butter poured over them.†
Chpt 4
- While Jack and he were thus busily employed catching and tying the rebels together by the feet, we procured a fresh supply of salt, which we packed upon Turk's back, first relieving him of his coat of mail.†
Chpt 4procured = got by special effort
- All this time not a drop of water had we seen, and our own thirst increasing, we felt eager to procure some before returning to our resting-place.†
Chpt 6
- This arrangement is for the purpose of aiding the whale in procuring its food, and separating it from the water.†
Chpt 10procuring = getting by special effort
- On the way, it appeared to strike the boys (who had made not the slightest objection to the singularly unpleasant task I had set them) as very strange that I should wish to possess what they had been working so hard to procure for me.†
Chpt 10
- I now summoned the boys to assist me in procuring blocks of wood for my crushing machine, and the following day we set forth with saws, ropes, axes and other tools.†
Chpt 14procuring = getting by special effort
- 'There are tremendous caverns in Java and other places where, at great risk, these nests are procured; the annual weight obtained being upwards of fifty thousand pounds, and the value more than £200,000.†
Chpt 16procured = got by special effort
Definitions:
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(1)
(procure) get by special effort
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)