How To Use Acquaintance 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 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
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.
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.
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.
Over the five years of our acquaintance with her, Fanny avoids pregnancy when it would be professionally inconvenient.
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
Anyone who has any acquaintance with the Bible will know that prophets regularly used strong language when confronted with hypocrisy or decadence.
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
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
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.)
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
But what about how cretinous it seems when acquaintances overtype like that, just-becausssssssssse? Pitchfork: Latest News
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
Maybe we are the most acquaintanceship stranger on the world.
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
His varied acquaintance included Boswell, Bentham, Godwin, Paine, and Coleridge.
A business acquaintance tried to sack two employees recently: the first for incompetence, the second for tardiness.
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.
To most friends and acquaintances, I remained my old self. Times, Sunday Times
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.
Various sportive young matrons of his acquaintance‥certainly felt no overmastering desire to keep their husbands at their sides.
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
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.
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.
LYSIMACHUS: Those who have reached my time of life, Socrates and Nicias and Laches, fall out of acquaintance with the young, because they are generally detained at home by old age; but you, O son of Sophroniscus, should let your fellow demesman have the benefit of any advice which you are able to give. Laches
Combined with birthstones and semi-precious gems, the necklaces also make stylish, yet affordable gifts for friends and acquaintances.
The concert happened to be performed by an old acquaintance of mine, who I used to know many moons ago, when we were both angelic little trebles in local parish church choir.
How does an Englishman greet an acquaintance whom one meets in the street? Times, Sunday Times
It is impossible not to love and admire these four women, even when (as in Becky's case) you would be chary of making their acquaintance in real life.
I'm finding that with a lot of my friends or acquaintances going back to school, I miss it.
It was only to those who had but few personal dealings with him that he seemed stiff and "donnish"; to his more intimate acquaintances, who really understood him, each little eccentricity of manner or of habits was a delightful addition to his charming and interesting personality. The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson)
I was lamenting the current, miniscule McCain, a man who would take a passing -- and deeply irrelevant -- acquaintanceship between Barack Obama and Ayers, and try to make it a central issue in this absolutely crucial campaign, with the accompanying canard from the Embarracuda that Obama had "palled around" with terrorists. Ideologues in Extremis - Swampland - TIME.com
When they arrived, William sent a cadie to give notice to Colonel Gordon that he was arrived in town; but was detained upon business with a stranger, to whom he would be happy to introduce him, as he was an acquaintance of his father's, and had seen him within the last few years. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17
Another acquaintance of mine didn't believe in chemical pesticides for gardening so he cut out squares from old carpet and placed one around each Brussels sprout plant to prevent creepy-crawlies climbing up.
The men with the Brigade ties and their friends were running out of potential mutual acquaintances to describe.
Therefore that which I would exhort you to, is to acquaint yourselves with Jesus Christ, and you shall find a new way opened in him, by which you may boldly come to God, and having come to God in him, you are called to walk with him to entertain that acquaintance that is made, till all the distance and estrangedness of your hearts be worn out. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
He would sometimes use acquaintances as characters, including one individual who frequently checked her physical condition against a medical dictionary. Times, Sunday Times
I leave behind a number of acquaintances and two close friends who have lived every moment of this ordeal with me.
One of her new acquaintances was Mrs. Rayner Mann, a lady who desired to be known as the patroness of young people aiming at success on the stage or as musicians. The Whirlpool
I have a host of acquaintances, a myriad of contacts, but no one besides Lucas I can call a real friend.
Our word "kith," in the proverb "kith and kin," means persons of our acquaintance.] [Footnote 355: Bib. Henry of Monmouth, Volume 1 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth
Of course my new conservative acquaintances take the opposite view, sort of.
It is believed, too, that Arcimboldo had first-hand acquaintance with Leonardo's drawings of grotesque heads, many of which belonged to a family friend; the irregular profiles of the composite heads often have remarkable cognates in Leonardo's distorted profiles. The Proto-Surrealist
She fled abroad to escape her tormentors and keeps her past a secret from new acquaintances. The Sun
Every two blocks or so he would leave the parade to renew an old acquaintanceship or foment a new one.
Lewis was my closest acquaintance.
Lorimer; she was not more than seventeen when the poet made her acquaintance, and though she had got a sort of brevet-right from an officer of the army, to use his southron name of Whelpdale, she loved best to be addressed by her maiden designation, while the poet chose to veil her in the numerous lyrics, to which she gave life, under the names of "Chloris," "The lass of Craigie-burnwood," and "The lassie wi 'the lintwhite locks. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
The bills are entirely regular, as impossible to impersonate as lifelong acquaintances. THE SAVAGE GIRL
Professor Gladwyn would be an acquaintance worth cultivating.
I understand now, that we have to go through several acquaintances before we meet true friends.
Bannion, partially reintegrated into the society he earlier rejected, accepts the help of his police acquaintances and other friends in protecting his daughter.
New acquaintances are genuinely enchanted by my son's name and that tickles me.
From the reputation which he had previously acquired for gallantries, and the sort of reckless and boyish levity to which -- often in very "bitterness of soul" -- he gave way, it was not difficult to bring suspicion upon some of those acquaintances which his frequent intercourse with the green-room induced him to form, or even (as, in one instance, was the case,) to connect with his name injuriously that of a person to whom he had scarcely ever addressed a single word. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
If she had been "hand and glove" with a "nob" from her own country -- she was in no way reticent about thus styling her grander acquaintances, only she wrote the word "knob" -- who thought to conceal his nationality by The Uninhabited House
He called Mrs. Bolton Mrs. B., and was very intimate, familiar, and facetious with that lady, quite different from that “aughty, artless beast,” as Mrs. Bolton now denominated a certain young gentleman of our acquaintance, and whom she now vowed she never could abear. The History of Pendennis
For those of us who were taught in grade school to revere him and in college to shrug him off, the beard is an obstacle to fresh acquaintance, and Newton Arvin has wisely chosen a frontispiece in which the forty-eight-year-old man is obscured only by burnsides. Longfellow
Many in the military, more bluntly, have a stereotype of gays as mincing, epicene "others" —a cartoon image which, the Pentagon survey shows, overwhelmingly evaporates on personal acquaintance.
This journey of Dr. Barth's has considerably extended our acquaintance, both with the geography and the political state of Asben or Aheer. Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government
I've had passing acquaintance recently with the greed and contemptuous indifference of some London landlords. Times, Sunday Times
It is so easy to become involved in local jealousies, and to be obliged to go on seeing acquaintances TESTIMONIES
They gave my new acquaintance a somewhat belligerent aspect, you may be sure!
But were he to introduce me to one, and give me an opportunity of shaking hands with him, of conversing with him, of observing his features, etc.; and were he then to introduce me to another, in like manner, with the privilege of shaking hands again with the first, before my introduction to the third; and were he thus to introduce me to them all successively, I might form _twenty-six acquaintances with one introduction_. Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes
And of you I think much and anxiously since Mrs. Channing, amidst her delight at what she calls the happiest hour of her absence, in her acquaintance with you and your family, expresses much uneasiness respecting your untempered devotion to study. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
If you get some special facilities because of your acquaintance with the doctor, don't make it public - have regard for the feelings and sentiments of other patients.
Her acquaintance among them was more widely extended, her visits to their humble dwellings were more frequent and excursive than they had ever been before. Agnes Grey
They may depend on and refer to online friends the same way they do family and long-time acquaintances.
Her manner seemed unpleasant at first, but she improved on further acquaintance.
In such terms Mr Gradgrind always mentally introduced himself, whether to his private circle of acquaintance, or to the public in general.
Freddy on the other hand lags behind and then stops by a locker to talk to one of his numerous acquaintances.
And when the Robin congratulated him on his singing, the Woodlark did not seem to care much for the compliment, but confided to his new acquaintance, that although he thought it right to sing and be thankful, as long as there was a bit of comfort left, he was not so happy as he seemed to be, since in reality he was always expecting to die some day of having nothing at all to eat. Parables From Nature
And an unco fright ye gae me when ye cam ahint and took a grip o 'me," said Jenny, giving him a sly twitch with her finger and her thumb -- "if ye hadna been an auld acquaintance, ye daft gomeril" -- Old Mortality, Complete
There is a difference between intimacy and social contact, close friends and acquaintances. Times, Sunday Times
Winker (noun, singular): If both turn signals on a car are commonly called ‘blinkers’, using just one of the turn signals should be called a ‘winker’. on 06 Sep 2007 at 12: 20 pm Kristy Dempsey friendsied: the state of being overwhelmed with trying to keep up with the blogs, facebooks, and myspace sites of an ever growing list of online acquaintances on 06 Sep 2007 at 2: 00 pm Shawn Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Writer Unboxed’s CONTEST, CONTEST!
Later Boiotian tradition maintained that Damaratos did, through his acquaintance with the leading citizens, help to arrange that of Thebes.
John Henry is speaking to an acquaintance in the lobby and a beautiful young woman, followed closely behind by a companion, is descending the stairs.
Was it so peculiar to scan each of these acquaintances respectively with circumspect glances, to do so apprehensively (more apprehensively and yet more often to the male than the female of this brother and sister combination as she, whom he barely knew at all, was nearer and the sexual interest would be more conspicuous), and to let the erumpent odors of both, imagined or real, send him on An Apostate: Nawin of Thais
'To find other people's unposted letters in an old pocket; to be seen looking at oneself in a street-mirror, or overhead talking of the Ideal to a duchess; to refuse Nuns who come to the door to ask for subscriptions, or to be lent by a beautiful new acquaintance a book she has written full of mystical slipslop, or dreadful musings in an old-world garden --' More Trivia
When recently I asked an Indonesian acquaintance for advice on the feeding habits of young puppies, the reply I got was not one I had expected.
On the other hand, nothing is more difficult than parting with all the friends and acquaintances you have made, and leaving behind all the warmth, amity and hospitality that have been lavished on you.
He left the manuscript, however, in the hands of the family, possibly deeming, from their incuriosity, their apparent indifference to their relative, or their obvious unacquaintance with reading of any kind, manuscript or books, his deposit would be safe. Melmoth the Wanderer
Liza Hempstock, a witch buried in potter’s field, shunned by most in the graveyard, but becoming an unusual acquaintance for Bod. “The Graveyard Book” by Neil Gaiman and Michael McKean (Harpercollins, 2008) « The BookBanter Blog
Quarterly" and elsewhere have been noted; impressions of his manner and appearance at different periods of his life have been recovered from coaeval acquaintances; his friend Hayward's Letters, the numerous allusions in Lord Houghton's Life, Mrs. Crosse's lively chapters in "Red Letter Days of my Life," Lady Gregory's interesting recollections of the Athenaeum Club in Blackwood of Biographical Study of A.W. Kinglake
What I found in subsequently asking around was that several of my long-time flyfishing acquaintances around the country had either just had or were about to have similar shoulder surgery. Casting is a Pain in the Shoulder
But the spirit of that predatory war which the English carried on against Spain mingled with this scheme of settlement, and on this account, as well as from unacquaintance with a more direct and shorter course to North America, Greenville sailed by the West India Confederate Prisoners at Roanoke Island
I remember a passage in Alain de Lille's medieval work, the Complaint of Nature, in which he describes sex entirely in syllogistic terms -- as in syllogisms minor and major terms are connected by a single middle terms, in sex minor terms and major terms are connected by a set series of middle terms starting with acquaintance, moving through kisses, and ending in mutual inherence. Argument in verse
He still feels fine but there will be a price to pay for his reacquaintance with bad habits.
At that hour it was so rare an event in the life of Mr. Mivers to be found in the drawing-room, and that he should have an acquaintance unknown to his helpmate was a circumstance so much rarer still, that Mr.. Mivers may well be forgiven for keeping St. John standing at the door till she had recovered her amaze. Lucretia — Volume 05
No earlier authentic evidence than this exists, though a _lapsus calami_ of Leland (who credits the Venerable Bede with an acquaintance with Deerhurst about the year 700) would seem to give it an earlier date. Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire
I fight my way through the crowds until I find an acquaintance working the door.
The annual dinner is a chance to renew acquaintance with old friends.
Haec illi portate, — — — [5464] he desires to confer with some of her acquaintance, for his heart is still with her, [5465] to talk of her, admiring and commending her, lamenting, moaning, wishing himself anything for her sake, to have opportunity to see her, O that he might but enjoy her presence! Anatomy of Melancholy
Very clever, Valda, though some professional magicians of my acquaintance manage this trick with much more aplomb and good humor.
Not only was I reading about the lives of my ancestors, but about their friends and acquaintances too - and accounts of historical events which my uncle recorded in his diary on the day they happened.
The best information about hotels usually comes from friends and acquaintances who have been there.
I If I had not held you as so old an acquaintance, this should have gone to my Lady’s ears though I had been called pickthank and tale-pyet for my pains, as when I told of Roland Graeme shooting the wild swan.” The Abbot
Planudes may have invented some few fables, or have inserted some that were current in his day; but there is an abundance of unanswerable internal evidence to prove that he had an acquaintance with the veritable fables of Aesop, although the versions he had access to were probably corrupt, as contained in the various translations and disquisitional exercises of the rhetoricians and philosophers. Fables
He has a wide circle of acquaintances.
I understand now, that we have to go through several acquaintances before we meet true friends.
She noted her acquaintance with "both Joes'' - "DJ Joey'' and "DJ Joe Pet'' - and a young woman, a college student, seated beside her, nicknamed, for reasons none explain, "Shady 140,'' a moniker shouted out whenever she takes the stage. Boston.com Top Stories

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