Acquirement
in example sentence
They were prouder and happier in their new
acquirement
than they would have been in the scalping and skinning of the Six Nations.
More example sentences with word acquirement
THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BANDOn glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the
acquirement
of wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic.
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