earn

ansaita puhekieltä To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work.

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Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.

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And ever as he rode, his heart did earn / To prove his puissance in battle brave.

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