Acquired

Examples

• The jealousy of the artist to maintain that reputation, which his ingenuity has justly acquired, has urged him to unnecessary pains on this subject. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• In ordinary talk they might have passed unheeded; but following on her prolonged pause they acquired a special meaning. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• After the effervescence has ceased, a taste of the liquid will show you that the lemon juice has lost its acid nature, and has acquired in exchange a salty taste. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• I have said, that the defects of her character awoke and acquired vigour from her unnatural position. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Torpedo boats of this type have been acquired by, and now form a part of, the United States Navy. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• They had generally acquired some of the vices of civilization, but none of the virtues, except in individual cases. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I very nearly acquired the jargon at Silverton's age, and I know how names can alter the colour of beliefs. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Yet that sentence which contained their wisdom about particular events has acquired an emotional force which persists long after the events have passed away. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The public and shameless sale of beautiful mulatto and quadroon girls has acquired a notoriety, from the incidents following the capture of the Pearl. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. Plato. The Republic.
• Another, to respect more the property of private persons under conquest, and to be content with acquired dominion. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• All that can be acquired, he has acquired. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The period at which the perfect plumage is acquired varies, as does the state of the down with which the nestling birds are clothed when hatched. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• It is only by means of such exportation, that this surplus can acquired value sufficient to compensate the labour and expense of producing it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The Gould pool had acquired control of $10,000,000 in gold, and drove the price upward rapidly from 144 toward their goal of 200. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Thirdly, can instincts be acquired and modified through natural selection? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The color acquired by vegetable fibers is, therefore, usually faint. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Oh, there is a great deal in the feeling for art which must be acquired, said Will. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• A hatred of idleness, Mr. Zimmerman, is a love of industry; but how is this love and this hatred to be acquired? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• He was far riper in experience and practice of his art than any other telegrapher of his age, and had acquired, moreover, no little knowledge of the practical business of life. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Britain circumvented the designs of France in America and acquired Canada, and got the better of France in India. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It broke in upon his lately acquired habit of sitting still in one easy chair for half a day together. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• These standards can be built up only through practice in following up and acting upon the meaning of what is acquired. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The king had, in compliance with her exactions, cast off his old friends, but he had acquired no new ones under her guidance. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The National troops acquired a confidence in themselves at Belmont that did not desert them through the war. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Oh, Freddy---- Rosedale brushed aside the topic with an air of its unimportance which gave a sense of the immense perspective he had acquired. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• With out fixed points, without something to go by, men, before they had acquired the elements of astronomy, were altogether at sea. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• I was now on a fair footing with them, and soon acquired considerable influence. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The sterility of first crosses and of their hybrid progeny has not been acquired through natural selection. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The more it costs to acquire any property, the less must be the neat value of it when acquired. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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