Acquisitions
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Examples
- It is impossible here to trace the events of the ninth and tenth centuries in any detail, the alliances, the treacheries, the claims and acquisitions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Of these pictorial acquisitions Mr Meagles spoke in the usual manner. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Bedwin, his costumes, and black man, were hailed at Gaunt House as very valuable acquisitions. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Almost insensibly the originally revolutionary teaching was buried under these customary acquisitions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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