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For nearly ten years Mrs. Roberts has been procuring all the living specimens of the thylacine that money could buy, and attempting to breed them at her private zoo.

From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by Hornaday, William Temple

She has been procuring the stuff for the last three years.

From The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma by Croker, B. M. (Bithia Mary)