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- He is already in easy circumstances, and is in a fair way of soon acquiring a brilliant fortune. - "Madame Roland, Makers of History", John S. C. Abbott.
- Meanwhile the soldiers were acquiring luxurious habits, learning to despise their general, and gradually losing their former efficiency and courage. - "Tacitus: The Histories, Volumes I and II", Caius Cornelius Tacitus.
- Furthermore, the pupil is losing here, as when he uses only a syllabus, one of the very things that he should be acquiring, namely, the habit of reading mathematics. - "The Teaching of Geometry", David Eugene Smith.