...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」
...Here he had built a boma, or enclosed compound, and engaged himself in acquiring Masai sheep in exchange for beads, wire, and cloth...
Stewart Edward White 「African Camp Fires」
...The hopes of acquiring wealth in this pursuit, andzeal for propagating their religion, have filled this extensivecity with Moors and Mohammedan converts...
Mungo Park 「Travels in the Interior of Africa, Vol. 2 [of 2]」
...His daughter has had small opportunities for acquiring knowledge, but was in our school at Berea, and making rapid progress...
William Still 「The Underground Railroad」
...Thepheasant-tailed jacanas are acquiring the long tail feathersthat form the wedding ornaments of both sexes...
Douglas Dewar 「A Bird Calendar for Northern India」
...TheCanadian rivers are now more quickly and easily reached than formerly,and as the fish are rapidly acquiring fame they are bound to becomemuch sought after by Anglers...
Charles Bradford 「The Determined Angler and the Brook Trout」
...Nations having wooden vessels would copy them in clay on acquiring theart of pottery...
William Henry Holmes 「Origin and Development of Form and Ornament in Ceramic Art.」
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