Over the years, the clean-lined house on Chautauqua Boulevard acquired constellations of small things.

This house and certain parcels of land acquired by me while you were indisposed.they're all in my name.

He collected houses like people collect stamps and soon acquired several, each as individual as himself.

"How long is it since the house acquired this sinister character?"

Old houses frequently acquire the most peculiar names.

The few houses that had been built in the last twenty years had acquired a look of drabness and neglect.

"Were any of the houses we burned, or the houses they burned, honestly acquired?"

One gift she did have, though, that the house had acquired long before and striven hard to be rid of.

The house is still acquiring contents and has managed to obtain only a single picture that was definitely there when the composer was.

In early law a man could not dispose of his estate by will nor could religious houses acquire it.