By the last time you hear it, it has acquired a voice of chilling, mortal finality.
We know this because the cat, after gobbling his master's parrot, acquires a voice (provided by François Morel).
In an instant, an animal hitherto regarded as dumb, and unable to protest its abuse, acquired a voice capable of delivering a melodious, fluid, abstract threnody.
It had acquired a voice with which to speak its answers, where before it had offered only written responses.
In recent months it has acquired a political voice.
But Eliza Doolittle acquired a new voice, whereas this Eliza cannot speak at all.
In order to attain and protect their monopoly, the guilds acquired a political voice and in some locations achieved the right to elect a number of their own members to the town council.
What the accident did was add urgency to the process and though he regularly complained of how little his circumstances allowed him to accomplish, by the time of his death he had accumulated a substantial body of work and acquired a distinctive voice.
Soon armed citizens acquired a political voice: in 1977, at the N.R.A.'s annual meeting, conservative activists led by Harlon Carter, a former chief of the U.S. Border Patrol, wrested control from leaders who had been focussed on rifle-training and recreation rather than on politics, and created the modern gun-rights movement.
