To the well-born child, all the virtues are natural, and not painfully acquired.

Her painfully acquired skill in unarmed combat further convinced the mercenaries that she had accepted their values and way of life.

After six months of hard training she could not bear to waste her painfully acquired skills and had joined the Service.

I soon proved my worth in sharing my painfully acquired knowledge of the local flora, fauna and surrounding geography.

In these stories a person either has painfully acquired something or has lost it and then regained it.

In Europe, the churches are emptying; atheism is no longer the painfully acquired ideology of a few intellectual pioneers but a prevailing mood.

When the painfully acquired supplies had been landed, at least half of them had been found to be defective.

This is obvious to everyone who feels affection for this painfully acquired child of European unity.

Worse, we were forced to put into actual practice our painfully acquired knowledge of prose structure.

Well, getting the details wrong assists those who would dismiss all the data and conclusions painfully acquired by Unscom experts.