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- gets, swallows, buys, collects, assimilates, scores, assumes, devours, procures, aggregates, fetches, nets, totals, accesses, pockets, absorbs, confiscates, garners, adds, receives, incurs, captures, eats, gulps, admits, monopolizes, tallies, reaps, abducts, accepts, commandeers, inspires, gathers, harvests, wrangles, takes, usurps, obtains, levies, inhales, annexes, ingests, appropriates, augments, impounds, possesses, nabs, catches, secures, owns, accumulates, corners, has, increases, engorges, bags, amasses, increments, claims, accrues, gobbles, grabs, purchases, heaps, deprives, lands, palms, lures, holds, retrieves, sums, attains, wins
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- - Such deposits constitute barriers which at first check the current and raise its level, and of course its violence at lower points is augmented, both by increased volume and by the solid material it carries with it, when it acquires force enough to sweep away the obstruction. - "The Earth as Modified by Human Action", George P. Marsh
- - Let him creep, roll, slide, or even hunch along the floor- wait until he pulls himself to his feet and gradually acquires the art of standing alone. - "The Mother and Her Child", William S. Sadler Lena K. Sadler
- - They supply, in other words, the means through which the mind acquires information. - "Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools", Francis M. Walters, A.M.
