The Cossacks reside with their families, and some of them acquire considerable property.

Ruby's IRA rank also enabled him to acquire considerable intelligence on the IRA's most senior figures.

These men acquire considerable authority amongst the pagan negroes, who expect great things from their 'grígrís.'

It is nothing uncommon for those belonging to the Europeans to possess slaves of their own, and to acquire considerable substance.

They may also acquire considerable knowledge of science, or of some ennobling pursuit different from that by which money is made.

On the way to the point the two had acquired considerable information.

The river was acquiring considerable importance from the great increase of trade.

I succeeded to the utmost of my wishes, and acquired considerable reputation.

Mr. Riley is much of a gentleman, and has acquired considerable means.

I made them flageolets of reeds, on which they acquired considerable skill.

UTE-MRI acquires considerable signal from cortical bone and enables quantitative bone evaluations.

Soon acquired considerable weight in person, and in the management of the house.

In these and similar acts, many of them acquired considerable proficiency.

The stalk soon becomes ligneous, and in time acquires considerable thickness.

Throwing the tomahawk was another boyish sport, in which many acquired considerable skill.

She had, in the course of her studies, acquired considerable knowledge of medicine.