Athena possessed the confident belief in herself and in her own powers that every beautiful woman is apt early to acquire in her progress through an admiring world.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
That a prominent Eskimo named My-ah had disposed of a few surplus wives to gain the means whereby to acquire a few more dogs, was probably the most important single item of information conveyed.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
Nasmyth explained with some difficulty, for in the Bush, men acquire a certain pride in their physical manhood, and it is never a pleasant thing to own oneself defeated.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton