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Sentences ending with acquired

He will tell you that scientific training has a value independent of all the special knowledge acquired. [3]
When, at last, you return to it, you do not find it as it was when acquired. [6]
And I want--the unattainable, the divine gift which is bestowed, which cannot be acquired. [9]
He who made the heart alone knew the infirmities it inherited or acquired. [6]
The president knows that it is money fraudulently got, that really belongs to somebody else; and the gambler would feel that if the president takes it, he cannot think very disapprovingly of the manner in which it was acquired. [4]
I had carefully read the reports of the shooting there; but it was not easy to apply the experience I had thus acquired. [4]
Not only the properties stolen by Mr. McKinley and Mr. Roosevelt, but the properties honestly acquired? [5]
He was one of the most human creatures that ever lived; indeed, his humanity excluded every form of artificiality --everything that needs to be acquired. [5]
He has by nature that calmness and indifference which your people of culture have acquired. [4]
But, to deserve it in full measure, you must unite many excellences, natural and acquired. [3]

Short sentences using acquired

We acquired valuable naval bases. [9]

Sentences containing acquired two or more times

He realised that though in his six years' residence in the land he had acquired a command of Arabic equal to that of others who had been in the country twice that time, he had acquired little else. [11]

More example sentences with the word acquired in them

They say that you have ability, that you have acquired a practice and a position which at your age give the highest promise for the future. [9]
We had as yet only acquired a bowing acquaintance with it, through pleasure excursions to Scutari and the regions round about. [5]
During flight, moths would often be able to escape from their enemies; nevertheless, as the hind-wings are then fully exposed to view, their bright colours must generally have been acquired at some little risk. [1]
Obviously no animal would be capable of admiring such scenes as the heavens at night, a beautiful landscape, or refined music; but such high tastes are acquired through culture, and depend on complex associations; they are not enjoyed by barbarians or by uneducated persons. [1]
The White Guard, with their faces turned homeward, and the man they had sought for in their care, seemed to have acquired new strength. [11]
I am filled with the wonder of her knowledge, acquired because shut out from all distraction. [5]
No one probably will dispute that many gallinaceous birds which live on the open ground, have acquired their present colours, at least in part, for the sake of protection. [1]
The many characters which they possess in common can hardly have been independently acquired by so many distinct species; so that these characters must have been inherited. [1]
They were there when we acquired the Territory. [7]
Brains and books were one thing, but the strong arm, the quick eye, and the deft lunge home with the sword or dagger were better; they were of a man's own skill, not the acquired skill of another's brains which books give. [11]
He had stood well in college, during three years in Europe he had picked up two or three languages, dissipated his remaining small fortune, acquired expensive tastes, and knowledge, both esoteric and exoteric, that was valuable to him in his present occupation. [4]
The aid which we feel impelled to give to the helpless is mainly an incidental result of the instinct of sympathy, which was originally acquired as part of the social instincts, but subsequently rendered, in the manner previously indicated, more tender and more widely diffused. [1]
The truth doubtless was, that the same precautions would have been taken against any travelers, because the English Company who have acquired the right to excavate Ephesus, and have paid a great sum for that right, need to be protected, and deserve to be. [5]
Just as one was learning his trade, or perhaps had acquired it, and was ready to earn his living and begin to make a home for his wife, he must pass the three best years of his life in the army. [4]
But here she was in the presence of what had been and what remained his ideal, the Chippering Mill; here he acquired unity. [9]
At first this was fitful and intermittent, but as he showed both literary discrimination and tact in judging of the market, his services were more in request, and slowly he acquired confidential relations with the house. [4]
And yet he was a very entertaining person, and I doubt if some of the information he gave us could have been acquired from any other source. [5]
Now, whether this was a repudiation of the Missouri line in principle depends upon whether the Missouri law contained any principle requiring the line to be extended over the country acquired from Mexico. [7]
Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. [5]
According to this view, their present manner of nesting was acquired before their present colours. [1]
He had acquired various branches of learning while sharing the studies of his foster-brother, the eldest son of the old Knight Schorlin, who was then living, and therefore, when scarcely twenty, was appointed schoolmaster at Stansstadt. [10]
The incident lights up the Indian situation electrically, and gives one a vivid sense of the strides which the English had made and the mastership they had acquired in the land since the date of Clive's great victory. [5]
This was a two-story log house which had acquired the reputation a few years ago of being haunted, and that was the end of its usefulness. [5]
She would not trust her newly acquired fiance to extricate himself. [9]
It seems incredible to those who knew Mark Twain in his later years--dreamy, unpractical, and indifferent to details--that he could have acquired so vast a store of minute facts as were required by that task. [5]
Are we, then, to suppose that some extremely ancient mammal continued androgynous, after it had acquired the chief distinctions of its class, and therefore after it had diverged from the lower classes of the vertebrate kingdom? [1]
Other animals, belonging to quite distinct classes, are either habitually or occasionally capable of breeding before they have fully acquired their adult characters. [1]
It vexes me to hear people talk so glibly of "feeling," "expression," "tone," and those other easily acquired and inexpensive technicalities of art that make such a fine show in conversations concerning pictures. [5]
It pleased him to be thought the arbiter of such a worthy cause, while he acquired a prominence at Asquith which satisfied in some part a craving which he found inseparable from incognito. [9]
He was beginning to be mildly interested, and, with his brother Orion, had acquired "feet" in an Esmeralda camp, probably at a very small price--so small as to hold out no exciting prospect of riches. [5]
Associated insects have thus acquired many remarkable structures, which are of little or no service to the individual, such as the pollen-collecting apparatus, or the sting of the worker-bee, or the great jaws of soldier-ants. [1]
At twenty-two George, through fighting-habits and drinking-habits acquired at sea and in the sailor boarding-houses of the European and Oriental ports, was a common rough in Hong-Kong, and out of a job; and Henry was superintendent of the Sunday-school. [5]
By reason of this extraordinary article in the newspaper, the public had acquired the right to know all about the private life of the Mavick family. [4]
Dates are difficult things to acquire; and after they are acquired it is difficult to keep them in the head. [5]
But even after they shall have acquired this curse it will still be a good country to go to for a vacation, for there are charming little islets scattered about the inclosed sea where one could live secure from interruption. [5]
Cheer up, banish these griefs; we still have the thirty thousand untouched; and with the experience which you have acquired, think what you will be able to do with it in a couple years! [5]
It seems idle, therefore, for the moralist to indulge in a homily about annual good intentions, and habits that ought to be dropped or acquired, on the first of January. [4]
In the town there was nothing to disturb the serenity of mind acquired by this communion. [4]
The support of the Wilmot Proviso is the first fact mentioned to prove that the Missouri restriction was repudiated in principle, and the second is the refusal to extend the Missouri line over the country acquired from Mexico. [7]
I have acquired the respect of Mr. Allen and some of those others, and almost the deference of some of them on pure merit, for having thrashed Allen. [5]
Such social qualities, the paramount importance of which to the lower animals is disputed by no one, were no doubt acquired by the progenitors of man in a similar manner, namely, through natural selection, aided by inherited habit. [1]
The conclusion that the horns have been acquired as ornaments is that which best agrees with the fact of their having been so immensely, yet not fixedly, developed,--as shewn by their extreme variability in the same species, and by their extreme diversity in closely-allied species. [1]
The fact is, the freighting business had grown to such important proportions that there was nearly as much excitement over suddenly acquired toll-road fortunes as over the wonderful silver mines. [5]
Toward the end the darkness lifted from Sally's ruined mind for a moment, and he said: "Vast wealth, acquired by sudden and unwholesome means, is a snare. [5]
By analogy, in the continual growth of the Republic, we ought to have a perception of what we have accomplished and acquired, and some clear view of our tendencies. [4]
The strongest and the ablest men have found it impossible to resist the impression produced by the most insignificant object, by the most harmless sight or sound to which they had a congenital or acquired antipathy. [6]
And I understood that, if I was to succeed, certain esoteric knowledge must be acquired, as it were, unofficially. [9]
Major Rowens, at that time Lieutenant of the Rockland Fusileers, had driven and "traded" horses not a few before he turned his acquired skill as a judge of physical advantages in another direction. [6]
My mother at that time had only the slight mastery of German acquired during hours of industrious study for her future husband's sake. [10]
Isn't it better that money, however acquired, should be used for a good purpose than a bad one? [4]
The great Northwest Territory, including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, was acquired first, I believe, by the British Government, in part at least, from the French. [7]
Such was the tact which the old darky had acquired from his master that he left the dishes on the shining mahogany board, and bowed himself out. [9]
One assayer got such rich results out of all specimens brought to him that in time he acquired almost a monopoly of the business. [5]
Was this merely strength of character, the natural result of the trials through which she had passed, the habit acquired of being the Helper and comforter instead of the helped and comforted? [9]
I did not stop to reflect how recently she must have acquired the word; it summed up precisely the self-estimate at which I had arrived. [9]
It has no springs, but lying 2250 feet above the sea and in a lovely valley, mountain girt, it has pure atmosphere and an equable climate; and being both a summer and winter resort, it has acquired a watering-place air. [4]
I have inherited some interests in corporations myself, and I have acquired an interest in others. [9]
A month or so before she had acquired another beau. [9]
Some day, when she should feel sure that desire had ceased to throb, when she should have acquired an unshakable and absolute resignation, she would see him. [9]
With affectionate persuasion she might be won over to anything, but Selene, when ever she remonstrated with her, made her feel her superiority over herself, acquired from her care of the family and her maternal character. [10]
I acquired more sense as I grew older. [9]
Laura smiled, and said, forgetting her acquired correctness of speech, "It is only me. [5]
Also that other rumor that English nobility acquired an added stench the other day--and had to ship it to India and the continent because there wasn't any more room for it at home? [5]
I may here remind the reader that the sterility of species when crossed is not a specially-acquired quality, but, like the incapacity of certain trees to be grafted together, is incidental on other acquired differences. [1]
One of the reasons why the college-bred man does not meet this reasonable expectation is that his training, too often, has not been thorough and conscientious, it has not been of himself; he has acquired, but he is not educated. [4]
For the only qualification for Membership is intellect and the spirit of good will; other distinctions, hereditary or acquired, do not count. [5]
In order that primeval men, or the ape-like progenitors of man, should become social, they must have acquired the same instinctive feelings, which impel other animals to live in a body; and they no doubt exhibited the same general disposition. [1]
I detected no particular result, however, except that I had acquired a breath like a buzzard's. [5]
Well, in my own time, I had acquired a lot of my kin--by purchase, and swapping around, and one way and another --and was getting along very well. [5]
When other people overwhelm you with acquired knowledge, such as you have not had opportunity, perhaps not application, to gain--derive not pride, but support from the thought. [14]
He turned them out nimbly, for he had had long practice and had acquired great facility. [5]
Thereupon the rebels ordered all their ships together at the Great Nore, ranging them into two crescents, with the newly acquired gunboats at the flanks. [11]
While he lay on his rack his hands were left free, and he tried to reproduce the various forms which lived in his imagination, he forgot the present in his artistic attempts, and his bitter lot acquired a flavor of the sweetest enjoyment. [10]
When conversation turned on her husband Helene assumed a dignified expression, which with characteristic tact she had acquired though she did not understand its significance. [2]
At the age of sixteen he entered a law office, but he was a heedless student, and never acquired either a taste for the profession or much knowledge of law. [4]
Even its pangs of loneliness had acquired a certain sweet taste. [9]
Even the glow of his newly acquired fame was not discernible behind his well-remembered head. [9]
At the end of each lesson he knows he has acquired something, and he also knows what that something is, and likewise that it will stay with him. [5]
The magical transformation of all this into a sunny, smiling, white villa with red-striped awnings and well-kept lawns and just enough shade had done no little towards giving to Lily Dallam that ascendency which she had acquired with such startling rapidity in the community. [9]
If I did not get my money, I acquired, at least, a host of distinguished acquaintances. [9]
Such strongly-marked differences must be in some manner highly important; and we know that they have been acquired in some instances at the cost not only of inconvenience, but of exposure to actual danger. [1]
I had seen Mr. Scherer attacked, Mr. Gorse attacked, and Mr. Watling: I had all along realized, vaguely, that my turn would come, and I thought myself to have acquired a compensating philosophy. [9]
For he knew most of them by name, and had acquired a knowledge of certain individual propensities and idiosyncrasies that delighted their companions. [9]
Therefore, learning being more prevalent and more easily acquired than riches, educated men became a wholesome check upon wealthy men, since they could outvote them. [5]
During the brief months of her absence she had marvellously acquired maturity and aplomb, a worldliness of manner and a certain frivolity that seemed to put those who surrounded her on a lower plane. [9]
His instincts are mixed up with innumerable acquired prejudices, erroneous conclusions, deceptive experiences, partial truths, one-sided tendencies. [6]
Both body and mind have acquired certain transmissible traits. [4]
And his conversation,--one might think he had acquired the art at Marly or in the Fauxbourg. [9]
Dr. Rolle ('Der Mensch, seine Abstammung,' etc., 1865, s. 99) states, on the authority of Khanikof, that the greater number of German families settled in Georgia, have acquired in the course of two generations dark hair and eyes. [1]
The backwoodsmen took matters more stolidly, having acquired long since the art of waiting. [9]
I used the material thus acquired afterward for my habilitation essay, but the impulse natural to me of imparting my intellectual gains to others had induced me to utilize it in a special way. [10]
Seeing in how many ways the tail-feathers of humming-birds differ, why should not the four central feathers have varied in this one species alone, so as to have acquired white tips? [1]
Inevitably from his manipulation, however, the art of the number acquired homogeneity, and there was nothing casual in its appearance. [8]
And under his manipulation the vast fortune so acquired was reported to have been doubled. [4]
How far each man values the appreciation of others, depends on the strength of his innate or acquired feeling of sympathy; and on his own capacity for reasoning out the remote consequences of his acts. [1]
Thus at last man comes to feel, through acquired and perhaps inherited habit, that it is best for him to obey his more persistent impulses. [1]
This communication, however, loses something of its value from the circumstance that the communication was withheld until after knowledge of the fact had been acquired by us from other sources. [7]
In his early life he had cared very little for poetry, but along in the middle eighties he somehow acquired a taste for Browning and became absorbed in it. [5]
This incidentally acquired knowledge proved of immense value to him. [5]
But he also knew that Dron, who had acquired property and was hated by the commune, must be hesitating between the two camps: the masters' and the serfs'. [2]

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