How To Use Acquaint In A Sentence

You know, I always joked I had a million acquaintances and only a couple of close friends.
She would have taken a great deal of trouble that her daughters might not be a flounce behind the fashions, and was so far-seeing in her motherly anxieties, that she junketed herself and Major Buller to many an entertainment, where they were bored for their pains, that the extensive acquaintance might ensure to the girls partners, both for balls and for life when they came to require them. Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls
He and Barton were now called upon for their names, and in return, we were favoured with the liquid and vowelly appellatives, by which our ingenuous and communicative acquaintances were respectively designated. The Island Home
However, even during adulthood we are constantly learning the faces of new individuals, both personal acquaintances and media figures.
I look forward to seeing the place again, renewing old acquaintances. The Sun

[From Vivaculus:]… I hasted to London, and entreated one of my academical acquaintances to introduce me into some of the little societies of literature which are formed in taverns and coffee - houses.
The dangers for girls were especially acute: “It is estimated that two-thirds of the girls who appear before the Court charged with immorality owe their misfortune to influences derived directly from the movies, either from the pictures themselves or in the ‘picking up’ of male acquaintances at the theatre!” A Renegade History of the United States
The fable is plainly implex, formed rather from the "Odyssey" than the "Iliad;" and many artifices of diversification are employed, with the skill of a man acquainted with the beet models. Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley
I would also like to know how well acquainted he was with the Metis of western Canadathe people, their clothing, and their culture?
He replied, “I know not; but thou art better able to judge, being acquainted with the ways of thy man, more by token that thou art one of the sharpest-witted of women and past mistress of devices such as devise that whereof fail the wise.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The bills are entirely regular, as impossible to impersonate as lifelong acquaintances. THE SAVAGE GIRL
As for prominence, some of that is luck, some is skill, and some is being on good terms ideologically or acquaintance-wise with a big-hitter like Instapundit. Marcotte blames sexism for her troubles.
Though best-known for his fantastic novel " Lanark, " Mr. Gray worked for many years as a portraitist, and provides a typically distinctive and opinionated account of his life, times and acquaintances in words and pictures. Books to Furnish a Coffee Table
Bringing what little money he had saved after sending Serafina her giros postales, he would burst into the familiar cantinas on Santa Fe Street and buy beer for his old acquaintances. Centennial
I gave them a small smile and left them to acquaint, or reacquaint themselves with each other.
This is where longtime friendships are fostered, where online acquaintances gather in meatspace, where rivalries and romances blossom. 7 Reasons to Attend Worldcon
Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace of happiness.
Learners at the advanced stage use their own creativity and seek delicate discriminations of meaning, stylistic niceties, subtleties of culture and discourse, and greater acquaintance with the language.
PALCA: But like scuba diving, there are certain inherent risks and they want to get you acquainted with those. Space Tourism: To Infinity And ... Right Back To Earth
Rome and her iniquities; the streets, deserted by the people, were trodden by French patrols; all was silent as the grave itself; and not a friend was there to bid them adieu; not a relative to speak a consoling word to the departing; and none to acquaint the unfortunates who remained behind with their terrible calamity! Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge
It was not until I checked into my Lisbon hotel that the receptionist with great glee acquainted me of my dilemma. Times, Sunday Times
These largely acoustic songs reacquaint us with his tremulous, soulful vocals and cutting lyrical style.
I figured that since I am now acquainted with millionaires, I must look like one, even if I am not.
The whole page was blotted with fresh tears, and, upon the opposite interleaf, were the following English lines, written in a hand so very different from the peculiar characters of my acquaintance, that I had some difficulty in recognizing it as his own. The Assignation
Across the land, every night, teenagers are yakking online in chat rooms with friends and Net acquaintances.
Misery acquaints men with strange bedfellows.
One day, a 6th dan Karate teacher came to the dojo with an introduction from an acquaintance and challenged me to a match.
From that moment, he anchors his existence in the hopeless need to share an affective contiguity with this random female acquaintance by changing the time of every clock and watch he encounters to Paris time.
An acquaintance assures me that this was simply due to the fact that this was a low-spec model, a cheapie, and that other models have features-a-plenty.
The oath of one of the initiated must counterbalance the most solemn asseveration of every one that is not acquainted with our holy secrets. Anne of Geierstein
I make it my business to acquaint myself with where objects properly belong in a house.
Concerntug the v* - trade* the force of my argument goes no farther than this; — that its Juppftfliou, by the ISrihfli government only, other nations continuing the trade as ufua\ % who would of cotirfe felSC on what we funender, would anfwer the purpofes of humanity, cither to the negroes tn Africa, or to thofe already in the Weft Indies; and I have quoted* in fupport of this opinion, the authoiitiesof men (naval commander! and others) who arc intimately acquainted with the trade, though no ways intended in its continuance; and I have not yet met with any evidence or argument* to Kivtttdate their testimony. The Monthly Review
Over the five years of our acquaintance with her, Fanny avoids pregnancy when it would be professionally inconvenient.
They were well acquainted with both and knew their history. Heidi
Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace of happiness.
-- But then they are not charged for seeing the lamps; there is no charge for walking round the walks; there is no charge for looking at the cosmoramic pictures; there is no charge for casting a glance at the orchestra; there is no charge for staring at the other people; there is no charge for bowing or talking to an acquaintance, if you meet one -- all these are gratis; and if you neither eat nor drink, there is no charge for witnessing those who do mangle the long-murdered honours of the coop, and gulp down the most renovating of liquors, be they hale or stout, vite vine, red port, or rack punch. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 321, July 5, 1828
General Assembly of the Kirk, his acquaintance with the nobleman who held the office of Lord High Commissioner forced him more into public than suited either his views or inclinations. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
Fortunately for us, we had made ourselves perfectly acquainted with the country the previous day, and instantly realized that escape by our right (as we faced Lucknow) was impossible, because of a huge impassable _jhil_. Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief
Anyone who has any acquaintance with the Bible will know that prophets regularly used strong language when confronted with hypocrisy or decadence.
Supper ended Pocahuntas was lodged in the gunner's roome, but Iapazeus and his wife desired to have some conference with their brother, which was onely to acquaint him by what stratagem they had betraied his prisoner as I have already related: after which discourse to sleepe they went, Pocahuntas nothing mistrusting this policy, who nevertheless being most possessed with feere, and desire of returne, was first up, and hastened Iapazeus to be gon. The Story of Pocahontas
Friends and even casual acquaintances will hold the keys to a dilemma you are trying to unknot .
I had little acquaintance with modern poetry.
You know, like the ones you and my brothers bestow willy-nilly on every taproom maid, doxy, and opera dancer in your acquaintance. How to Woo a Reluctant Lady
Employees should be fully acquainted with emergency procedures.
She called associates and acquaintances in various industries, asking for contact information for decision makers. Karlyn Lothery, communications consultant, succeeded after sending out a wider signal
The most gratifying thing about starting this blog has been the opportunity to get acquainted with so many smart and charming people.
Doctor, are you acquainted with the poison known as curari or curarine? The Lost Despatch
It's in that moment he decides he's not going to play his beloved violin until he reacquaints himself with his Algerian roots.
It was a mournful pair that hired a boat to take them to Saltash and acquaint the Lee family of the tragedy.
“A poor forlorn and ignorant stranger, unacquainted with the very Alcoran of the savage tribe whom you are come to reside among — Never to have heard of Markham, the most celebrated author on farriery! then I fear you are equally a stranger to the more modern names of Gibson and Bartlett?” Rob Roy
Sheridan had struck up an acquaintanceship with the actor-murderer Giles, a slightly bizarre eventuality which might have odd consequences.
It was expected that a gentleman would pay a polite compliment to a lady of his acquaintance, but quite another matter to be seen to mean it.
The first "acquaintance" process after delivery may be an especially important one for parents. The Developing Child (7th edn.)
Adversity acquaints men with strange bedfellows.
It was a cruel drawback to her hopes to see him first thus in public: but the manner of Mrs. Arlbery at the hotel, he had thought repulsive; he had observed that she seemed offended with him since the rencounter at the breakfast given for Miss Dennel; and he now wished for some encouragement for renewing his rights to the acquaintance. Camilla
The other remedy is an extension of the principles enunciated some time ago by Dr. Horace Britton, of Toronto, when he pointed out that the primary duties of the electorate were not merely to cast their votes but to acquaint themselves with the candidates offering themselves for election and with the issues before the people. The Weak Spot in Our Canadian Constitution
This particular saleslady scored big off a certain softhearted photographer of my acquaintance. Sharing the wealth
The practice of a lawyer requires acquaintance with court procedures.
As we took off, I could hear a faint quack of relief from Archie's new acquaintances.
Anyone who has been a member of a sorority or fraternity will be acquainted with some of the letter names.
But I can tell you, we feel a little better acquainted with you orthopterous fellows than we did. The Insect Folk
If you've never grown or tasted French sorrel, now is the time to make its acquaintance.
Wrangham -- a college acquaintance of mine, -- an admirer of me, and a pitier of my principles; -- one to George Augustus Pollen, Esq.; one to Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1.
He had been, though a much younger man, acquainted with the late Sir Hildebrand; and whenever Mrs Rayland and Lord Carloraine met, which they did in cumbrous state twice or thrice a year, their whole conversation consisted of eulogiums on the days that were passed, in expressing their dislike of all that was now acting in a degenerate world, and their contempt of the actors. The Old Manor House
Henri de Lubac and Karol Wojtyla, who later became Pope, were already acquainted from the days of the Second Vatican Council and held one another in high esteem. The Cardinal
Ms. Nichols is a writer of my acquaintance.
Trying to impress their former acquaintances, our ditzy heroines flaunt mobile phones. Times, Sunday Times
He seemed to recall some casual acquaintance saying something recently about market gardening.
We can imagine, therefore, that among such folk a settler, of Aeolic origin like Hesiod, who clearly was well acquainted with the Ionian epos, would naturally see that the only outlet for his gifts lay in applying epic poetry to new themes acceptable to his hearers. Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
They nodded to each other by way of breaking the ice of unacquaintance, and the first stranger handed his neighbour the family mug — a huge vessel of brown ware, having its upper edge worn away like a threshold by the rub of whole generations of thirsty lips that had gone the way of all flesh, and bearing the following inscription burnt upon its rotund side in yellow letters there is no fun Wessex Tales
Before you read the rest of this section, write down a description of a friend or an acquaintance. The Developing Child (7th edn.)
Many shooters use nothing else, One young fellow of my acquaintance, an avid shooter and hunter, mentioned he had never owned a wood-stocked rifle.
Faced with being reacquainted with his wife after nearly a decade, Mark Antony has his way with a passing shepherdess.
Let me emphasize, straight away, that he isn't what I would call a friend, but I know him enough to say that he did purposely design himself: single, modest dresser in receding colours, mathematics teacher, sponsor of the chess club, mild-mannered acquaintance to all rather than a friend to any, a person anxious to become invisible. Excerpt: Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
Manx, the millionnaire, was an acquaintance of the new Judge and titled dignitary, Sir Cramborne Wathin, and she visited Lady Wathin, at whose table the report in the journals of the Nile-boat party was mentioned. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
It is, like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight, and in the very beginning of acquaintance; and, consequently, that which first opens the door and intromits us to instruct ourselves by the example of others, and to give examples ourselves, if we have any worth taking notice of and communicating. The Essays of Montaigne — Complete
It is a country where acquaintances embrace when meeting and strangers are greeted with warmth, bonhomie, and a demitasse of rich coffee.
It was high time, he said, that the artist acquaint himself with the fantastic images of the microscope.
Of animal cardiac poisons chemists were acquainted in particular with so-called bufotalin, which is present in the skin secretion of certain species of the toad genus Bufo. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1927 and 1928 - Presentation Speech
He was unacquainted with the work either of Holmes or of Semmelweiss, and approached the problem from still another standpoint, drawing attention to the much higher deathrate among women delivered amid unsanitary surroundings. The Prospective Mother, a Handbook for Women During Pregnancy
Later, an industrious blousard of my acquaintance was arrested at his work, and sent to prison for the same offence: he was a carriage-maker. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
Should auld acquaintance be forgot... `You don't think about her? RESCUING ROSE
As a result, they are usually well acquainted with both their own and other people's anger by the time they reach manhood. 50 Ways to Become a Self-Confident Woman
Wrapped up, like a Laputan, in intense thought, and possibly sometimes in no thought at all (which, I believe, is very often the case with absent people), he does not know his most intimate acquaintance by sight, or answers them as if he were at cross purposes. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
Not to mention he sees me as a safe choice, the last male in his acquaintance who'd ever play the masher with his wife's kin.
For ten long minutes they stood talking, driving poor Gimblet to the desperate expedient of entering the shop and demanding a closer acquaintance with the cairngorm. The Ashiel mystery A Detective Story
Could the TSA procedures also shift the mind to the everyday experiences of transgender people, whose genitals are "imaged" by acquaintances without apology? Hayley Gorenberg: TSA Screening Reveals Transgender People's Experiences for All of Us
Suddenly I fear becoming even casually acquainted with a new title lest I somehow curse it to dismal failure. Atomic
It can, however, without prejudicing the objective, be restricted to those cases which constitute a danger to their acquaintances and so to patients with open tuberculosis in hygienically unfavourable conditions. Robert Koch - Nobel Lecture
Eicher is also finding that acquainting young, pregnant cows with milking parlors and milking before their first births reduces stress when they're milked after their calves are weaned.
Are you acquainted with my brother?
Mr Ivory, who had a good many years before made himself favourably known as a mathematician, especially by his acquaintance with Laplace's peculiar analysis, had adopted (as not unfrequently happens) some singular hydrostatical theories. Autobiography
Everyone in Ethiopia was acquainted with her.
She has an high opinion of her sex, to think they can charm so long a man so well acquainted with their identicalness. Clarissa Harlowe
But what about how cretinous it seems when acquaintances overtype like that, just-becausssssssssse? Pitchfork: Latest News
they were acquainted
To find a qualified hair colorist, ask friends or acquaintances for references.
While awaiting the widening of 16th Avenue N.W., you can broaden your acquaintance with poetry at Annie's Book Co.
His wife, who stood much in awe of him, durst not reply, but her mother bustled up to her support, with arms disposed as if they were about to be a-kimbo at the next reply. — “I gied them to an acquaintance of mine, Gibbie Girder; and what about it now?” The Bride of Lammermoor
It would be unkind to ask which of the "virtues" presided over Suzon's original acquaintance with her future husband, or whether the same or another undertook the charge of that wonderful six weeks 'abscondence of hers with him in this very uncle's house. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
Anyway, Leo wants them to spend a month here at Christmas so we can get acquainted. THE IMAGE OF LAURA
This impression is borne out on close acquaintance, there being little variation in contour on the wide top.
A couple of years ago an acquaintance of mine ended up in court for non-payment of Council Tax.
Previously, unacquainted passengers could find themselves sharing a ‘double’ berth of only eighty-eight centimetres in width.
Also, in the process, aspects of people's social world that are particularly important to them, but that might not even have crossed the mind of a researcher unacquainted with it, are more likely to be forthcoming.
You might want to follow Joy's lead and begin acquainting yourself with the research. Backing Into an Evidentiary Standard for ID
I would have liked to have spent several days in Iona, prowling by myself around its haunted ruins and getting acquainted with its quaint inhabitants. The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career
I subsequently discovered that my new and non-sporting acquaintances were coffee-planters of a class then known as the Galle Face planters, who passed their time in cantering about the Colombo race-course and idling in the town, while their estates lay a hundred miles distant, uncared for, and naturally ruining their proprietors. Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon
Nodding across the room to where a man stands, face beneath his old tweed hat unmemorable enough to be a forgotten acquaintance. THE ONLY GAME
He had big-name friends, acquaintances, mistresses and more book deals waiting.
Oh, Joe's got plenty of nerve -- of the right sort!" called a brakeman, and Joe, nodding at him, recognized a railroad acquaintance who had been present at some of the town ball games. Baseball Joe in the Big League or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles
Above all, she could not understand why, since she had acquaintances in the family, and since the Dame Glendinning had always paid her multure and knaveship duly, the said lass of the mill had not come in to rest herself and eat a morsel, and tell her the current news of the water. The Monastery
It is striking to realize how much of this material is personal-not subjective, but rather framed by her own family history or immediate acquaintance.
He was well acquainted with the literature of France, Germany and Holland.
I refer the way and manner I was apprehended, to the bearer, and shall only, in short, acquaint your Grace with the demands, which are, that your Grace shall discharge him of all soumes he owes your Grace, and give him the soume of 3400 merks for his loss and damages sustained by him, both at Craigrostown and at his house, Rob Roy
We will have a great guest speaker, as well as a good time reacquainting and socializing with old friends.
But part of “making life livable for ourselves” means not turning into the sort of noodge who browbeats friends and acquaintances about their dietary choices — at least until they start ordering the Flipper Tempura Roll at Nobu. Vegan Envy
Old acquaintances will soon be remembered.
Times of greeting and sharing in a public context, especially with strangers or distant acquaintances, are unnatural and sometimes painfully uncomfortable. Christianity Today
I wish to acquaint your love in Christ that the very zealous brethren who have been commissioned by your reverence to act for you in this good work have won praise for all the clergy by the amiability of their manners; for by their individual modesty and conciliatoriness they have shewn the sound condition of all. NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
Too much occupied with the acquaintances which they would be able to form and the invitations it might perhaps be possible to secure, they knew absolutely nothing, even in after-years, of what there was in this priceless museum of the archives of the Monarchy, and could only recall confusedly that it was decorated with cacti and giant palms which gave this centre of social elegance a look of the palmarium in the Jardin d’Acclimatation. The Guermantes Way
Friends and acquaintances would comment that we were more like sisters.
His own books carry the imprint of their close acquaintance. The Times Literary Supplement
Even if the ministry had the desire to do us justice, their unacquaintance with our wants would prevent their inclinations from being of any service to us; though I am not disposed to think, from our past experience, that any Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter
It's inevitable that as one moves from one place to another, it is easy to lose touch with friends and acquaintances.
One fellow London-dweller of my acquaintance said recently she was finally decamping from the city.
He had attended Eton and Oxford, two schools still acquainted with the study of classical antiquity, and it’s conceivable that in the media’s terms of endearment he recognized the debt owed to the very ancient Greeks, who allowed their sacred kings to rule in Thebes for a single triumphant year before putting them to death in order that their blood might fructify the crops and fields. Lewis Lapham: Domesticated Deities: About Messiahs Come to Redeem Our Country, Not Govern It
Recognizing his priest as one of their former acquaintances, or perhaps by his provincial dialect, they eagerly enlisted his services in ascertaining the result of their present expedition. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
An old acquaintance visiting from California once asked to borrow my Teflon skillet to demonstrate his culinary skills.
The owner may wish to avail himself of this opportunity to acquaint himself with his surroundings.
There is a difference between intimacy and social contact, close friends and acquaintances. Times, Sunday Times
There he worked the war horse upon the frozen turf renewing an old acquaintance with the heavy weight on his back. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
The best information about hotels usually comes from friends and acquaintances who have been there.
But Mr Brownrigg, who, I must say, had taken more pains than might have been expected of him to make himself acquainted with the legalities of his office, did not fail to call a vestry, to which, as usual, no one had responded; whereupon he imposed a rate according to his own unaided judgment. Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood
The annual dinner is a chance to renew acquaintance with old friends.
Old acquaintances will soon be remembered.
I'm pleased to make your acquaintance.
By her kind, her meek, her inoffensive behaviour, she had conciliated the sincere good will of all her neighbours and acquaintance; nor amid the busy cares of time was she ever forgetful of Eternity. Letter 413
She has given up all those that I used to call her rantipole acquaintance. Tales and Novels — Volume 03
No doubt some such exceptional cases may be met with in the course of future investigations, for we are still imperfectly acquainted with the entire fauna of the age of stone in Denmark as we may infer from an opinion expressed by Steenstrup, that some of the instruments exhumed by antiquaries from the Danish peat are made of the bones and horns of the elk and reindeer. The Antiquity of Man
It is believed that shortly afterwards gravediggers stole his body, which ended up on a dissecting table in Cambridge, where a horrified acquaintance recognised it.
I've had passing acquaintance recently with the greed and contemptuous indifference of some London landlords. Times, Sunday Times
I had acquaintances in every clan company, and no longer trembled every time a man looked too long at me or called me a lewd byname, as I used to do when I was a newcomer to the Marchfield. Wildfire
Before their imaginations had fully wakened out of the primeval dream, the cosmogonies and theogonies, gross and monstrous, of their national infancy, they were asked to have an opinion about the classical mythology, as represented by the Latin poets; they were made acquainted with the miracles of the lives of saints. Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature
It is also highly embarrassing to read DeGroot's confession that he is unacquainted with prior works by Devine, who is arguably one of the most prolific and exciting scholars working in the field of Scottish history.
It was his first competitive action since Royal St George's, following a much-needed break in which he vegetated on the sofa and reacquainted himself with his Rangers season-ticket.
The Abbe chanced one day to be in company with my husband, who was an old acquaintance of his, where many of the chopfallen deputies, like themselves, true lovers of their country, could not help declaring their indignation at its degraded state, and reprobating Bonaparte for rendering it so ridiculous in the face of Europe and the world. Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of the Princess Lamballe — Volume 7
How much more in keeping with Christian manners that the son of the household should share in the burden of keeping the domestic machinery running smoothly, rather than misemploy his time, and grow up unacquainted with the practical duties of life! Stories Worth Rereading
Headlining the slate is the renewal of acquaintances between No. 5 Florida and in-state rival Miami. Weekend Preview: SEC powers ready to roll out welcome mat
The majority were introduced to injection by a casual acquaintance.
Horatio Bottomley, the paper's wheeler-dealing first chairman, was flung into jail where, in 1922, an acquaintance found him stitching mail bags.
Despite the title, this play adds little to our knowledge or appreciation of Beckett although assuming a fairly comprehensive acquaintance with his works.
Another study found that acquainting students with basic job information in high school was associated with higher earnings in the future.
Welsh language I think I may lay some pretensions; were I not well acquainted with it, I should not have carried off the prize at various eisteddfodau, as I have done. Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
I will go away from this gathering, for example, knowing the name of Trilleck of Hereford, a fourteenth-century English bishop with whose name I was previously unacquainted.
No state is better acquainted with the porcine menace than Texas, where more than 2 million rampaging hogs cost landowners some $52 million in damages annually, and where lawmakers recently debated a bill that would have allowed private hunters to gun down pigs from the air. The Boar War
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance. Rabindranath Tagore
I was often obliged to run my head against my old acquaintances, the Swedish feathers, whilk your honour must conceive to be double-pointed stakes, shod with iron at each end, and planted before the squad of pikes to prevent an onfall of the cavalry. A Legend of Montrose
While experientialism stresses the importance of a personal acquaintance with what we categorize as the divine, evidentialism provides an anchor to prevent such hypothesizing from meandering off into exceedingly esoteric or individualized speculation by providing a basis for belief any interested party is free to investigate at their own leisure. Redblueamerica.com blogs
I fancy my acquaintance with the Bard's works and my gift for scribbling would inspire me to produce a dramatic masterpiece.
Unfortunately, many of their acquaintances in the university showed considerable sensitivity to this latter mission of the Volunteers.
A couple of years ago an acquaintance of mine ended up in court for non-payment of Council Tax.
It's like the classic situation where John introduces his girlfriend Mary to his distant acquaintance Sam, and Mary ends up leaving John for Sam.
Three of the people from my science class were there, and a few others I was acquainted with.
Those ages that have outlawed it (and many hundreds have, by my reading) have replaced it largely with murder - and with just such murders, by and large, as monomachy seems designed to prevent: murders resulting from quarrels among families, friends, and acquaintances. The Shadow of the Torturer
As he talks, I do a mental run-through of my acquaintances and conclude that he is without doubt the most boring man I have ever met. LOVE YOU MADLY
I attribute it all to a vanity that has, by the foolish admiration of his acquaintance, been worked up into a kind of phrensy, I shall be very unwilling to believe that he ever intended to distress a friend whom he loved as much as I believe that he has done you. George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life
It is probable that the Count was in connivance with them about all this, but anybody was surely little acquainted with me who did not know that I was too busy with my art to give any time to politics, even if I had not always felt an aversion to everything smacking of intrigue. Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun
Maybe we are the most acquaintanceship stranger on the world.
And calycanthus buds, see how you've got to hold 'em in your hands and warm 'em before they'll give out their sweetness, jest like children that you've got to love and pet, before they'll let you git acquainted with 'em. Aunt Jane of Kentucky
Most experts such as Koss focus on factors outside of criminal intent that contribute to date and acquaintance rape.
Their interpretability, however, must not be exaggerated; their meanings are not necessarily wholly predictable on first acquaintance.
At this stage of your progress, if not before, you may be assured that some clever friend will come in, and hold up his hands in mocking amazement, and ask you who could set you to that "niggling;" and if you persevere in it, you will have to sustain considerable persecution from your artistical acquaintances generally, who will tell you that all good drawing depends on "boldness. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing
From this conversation, together with previous ones, held with the same negro, and from after developments made to me at various places, and at different times, extending over a period of six weeks, I became acquainted with the fact -- and I _know_ it to be a _fact_ -- that there exists among the blacks a secret and wide-spread organization of a The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
His varied acquaintance included Boswell, Bentham, Godwin, Paine, and Coleridge.
Anselmo remained amazed, and almost besides himself, hearing his friend Lothario so unexpectedly to acquaint him with those things in a time wherein he least expected them; for now he esteemed Camilla to have escaped victress from the forged assaults of Lothario, and did himself triumph for glory of her victory. The Fourth Book. VII. Wherein Is Prosecuted the History of the Curious-Impertinent
A business acquaintance tried to sack two employees recently: the first for incompetence, the second for tardiness.
Hankey can be found too in various biographies of Swinburne, with whom, naturally, he was acquainted.
Although many British journalists of my acquaintance verge on the dissolute - sloppy drunks trying to cadge a free meal - Michael, an American who was shortly to become an English legend, outdid them all.
Nancy enjoyed seeing them and an occasional painter or writer who asked to renew acquaintance with Arnold's collection.
So perfect was his jockeyship, so clever his management of the animal he mounted, so intimately acquainted was he with every cross-road in the neighborhood of the metropolis -- a book of which he constructed, and carried constantly about his person --, as well as with many other parts of England, particularly the counties of Chester, York, and Lancaster, that he outstripped every pursuer, and baffled all attempts at capture. Rookwood
To most friends and acquaintances, I remained my old self. Times, Sunday Times
English speakers understand that in perceiving tomatoes, grapes, etc one is acquainted with sensuous features.
Delusion, if delusion be admitted, has no certain limitation; if the spectator can be once persuaded, that his old acquaintance are Alexander and Caesar, that a room illuminated with candles is the plain of Pharsalia, or the bank of Granicus, he is in a state of elevation above the reach of reason, or of truth, and from the heights of empyrean poetry, may despise the circumscriptions of terrestrial nature. Preface to Shakespeare
Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace of happiness.
His death evoked widespread regret and shock amongst his many friends and acquaintances.
An observant traveller, unacquainted with the historical antecedents of the friars in the Philippines, could not fail to be impressed by the estrangement of religious men, whose sacred mission, if genuine, ought to have formed an inseverable bond of alliance and goodfellowship. The Philippine Islands
Various sportive young matrons of his acquaintance‥certainly felt no overmastering desire to keep their husbands at their sides.
The author was well acquainted with classical drama, as may be seen in his use of stichomythia, amongst other things, and possibly in his preference for a Grecian story. The Growth of English Drama
Go through it then carefully and acquaint those with it worthy of sharing in such things.
We can imagine, therefore, that among such folk a settler, of Aeolic origin like Hesiod, who clearly was well acquainted with the Ionian epos, would naturally see that the only outlet for his gifts lay in applying epic poetry to new themes acceptable to his hearers. Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
This week I checked into the Freakonomics blog on the New York Times site for the first time in a while and saw that Venkatesh, who first came to popular notice when his work on the (lousy) economics of crack dealing was featured in that megaseller, has been guest-blogging about watching the fifth and final season with some self-described "real thugs" of his acquaintance. An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs.
Gifts that imply enough vague acquaintance without being openly insulting must be sought out. Times, Sunday Times
This book acquaints the students with the ancient cultures of Europe.
That repose of manner which is commonly believed to be the heirloom of noble birth is seen quite as often in the low-born adventurer, who regards it as part of his stock-in-trade; and there are many women, and men too, whose position might be expected to place them beyond the reach of what we call shyness, but who nevertheless suffer daily agonies of social timidity and would rather face alone a charge of cavalry than make a new acquaintance. Sant' Ilario
No time for lunch, so I bimbled over to the old church where the wedding was to be held, and found some other university friends - or rather, acquaintances.
Davis, who has written extensively about the dangers of our fire ecology, is well-acquainted with the burn area.
The Broadcasting Standards Council job, as a sort of public smut-detector, demanded some acquaintance with popular taste and culture.
And as for the acquaintances they've got back home, they find the newfound attention somewhat forced and unnatural.
You learned quickly to introduce yourself to a new acquaintance in proper English and to recoil in horror and disgust when the response you got was phrased in Ga or Dagaare or Twi or Ewe.

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