...My meaning is, Sancho, that the desire of acquiring fame is a very powerful motive... 
Miguel de Cervantes 「The History of Don Quixote, Volume II., Complete」
...At any rate I was just acquiring a taste for philosophy and the deadlanguages when my father died suddenly of a paralytic shock, and I hadto set about earning a living...
John Buchan 「Prester John」
...He forgets or ignores thefact that thirty years of acquiring education and property andcharacter have produced a higher type of black man than existed thirtyyears ago...
Booker T. Washington 「The Future of the American Negro」
...Theonly perfect way to conserve a water supply for a great humanpopulation is by acquiring title to water sheds, and eitherprotecting the forests upon them, or planting forests in case noneexist...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...The consequenceof this hasty acquiring is a bloated condition...
W. E. Webb 「Buffalo Land」
...By anact of 1832 free Negroes were declared incapable of purchasing orotherwise acquiring permanent ownership, except by descent, of any slavesother than husband, wife, and children...
Various 「The Journal of Negro History, Vol. I. Jan. 1916」
...Within three years ofthe beginning of the War the law was revised to read: "No free negro shallbe capable of acquiring, except by descent, any slave...
Various 「The Journal of Negro History, Vol. I. Jan. 1916」
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