How To Use Unacquainted with In A Sentence
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The rage was always there, existing beneath humdrum lives like a complacent monster unacquainted with its own power.
DOUBTING THOMAS
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European ladies who may actually have penetrated into a harem, perhaps in Constantinople or in Cairo, are still unacquainted with the real harem; they have only known its outer semblance in the rooms kept for show, rooms where European finery is partially aped.
Memoirs of an Arabian Princess
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Uninformed fishermen, unacquainted with manatees, shot some of then.
[alcuban] Lake Chapala
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Sanducci was also, by virtue of his youth, impatient with compromise, ignorant of anguish, unacquainted with disillusionment.
SLEEP WHILE I SING
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a person unacquainted with our customs
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Such is the innocence of those unacquainted with the peculiar folkways of Congress.
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A pair of young men, unacquainted with each other, pressed at the same time to the punch-bowl, and Jack, the chief ladler, turning from the younger, a clerk in civil dress, helped the elder, a tall naval officer, to a couple of glasses.
Tales of the Chesapeake
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This has all the technical marks of late Elizabethan dramatic blank verse: "vision" as a trisyllable; the redundant syllable in the middle of the line; the colloquial abbreviation of "in the"; not to mention the fanciful vein of the whole passage, which might lead any one unacquainted with Milton to look for this quotation among the dramas of the prime.
Milton
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But I was perfectly unacquainted with towns, and large assemblages of men.
Chapter 15
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He went through his duties with untiring assiduity, and with a kind of gracefulness, which by mere description can scarcely be made intelligible to those who are unacquainted with the manners of the
Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East
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I was then totally unacquainted with his poems.
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But the real news was that I had gone on record with my sexual orientation, and the tempest this created in the media teapot was nothing short of mortifying, particularly for someone utterly unacquainted with the vagaries of celebrity.
My Coming Out Do-Over
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He tells us that, for a long while at least, he had been unacquainted with the kind of society, the idle, useless underbred society, of watering-places.
Saint Ronan's Well
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Such is the innocence of those unacquainted with the peculiar folkways of Congress.
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With respect to men in other stations of life he is pleased to say, it is decent for a priest "to be sober and sad;" "a judge to be incorrupted, solitary, and unacquainted with courtiers or courtly entertainments ... without plait or wrinkle, sour in look and churlish in speech; contrariwise a courtly gentleman to be lofty and curious in countenance, yet sometimes a creeper and a curry favell with his superiors.
Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
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But Miss Streaham 2007 (runner up) is surely not unacquainted with shops, is she?
Killer Free On Shopping Spree « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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Each darner will think out for herself many uses to which to put designs, many combinations in which they will prove effective, and many colorings suggested by the tints which govern her room or her wardrobe; all of which would be an impossible task for any one person, unacquainted with the surroundings of all our students to accomplish.
The Art of Modern Lace Making
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If not, the word "skort" must have some other meaning which I am unacquainted with.
Notes and Queries, Number 77, April 19, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
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The whole spot is Hills and dales, the roads in places steep and overhung with wood, in short I can say with certainty the scene is such a one as your Suffolk neighbours are unacquainted with, and such a one as I never saw before.
Letter 106
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He went through his duties with untiring assiduity, and with a kind of gracefulness, which by mere description can scarcely be made intelligible to those who are unacquainted with the manners of the Asiatics.
Eothen
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unacquainted with city ways
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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Christian should reluctantly give up, one by one, the pleasures of the world; and look back upon them, when relinquished, with eyes of wistfulness and regret: because he knows not the sweetness of the delights with which true Christianity repays those trifling sacrifices, and is greatly unacquainted with the _nature_ of that pleasantness which is to be found in the ways of Religion.
A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity.
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He says that when the painting hangs in Edinburgh it will offer a real chance, even for those previously unacquainted with Raphael, to understand the development of his style.
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That a servant is for the most part, 1. unacquainted with his master's designs, 383. 2. restrained with a degenerous awe of mind,
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I.
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Almost cotemporary with these was L. Gellius, who was not so much to be valued for his positive, as for his negative merits: for he was neither destitute of learning, nor invention, nor unacquainted with the history and the laws of his country; besides which, he had a tolerable freedom of expression.
Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.
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“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
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It was as if he walked in a new and monstrously populous jungle and was unacquainted with its ways and denizens.
CHAPTER XXV
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It may be necessary, therefore, to explain to those who are unacquainted with the Italian mode of speaking in this respect that the Italians always speak of what we should call the fourteenth century as the "trecento," what we should call the fifteenth, as the
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876
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Of course the circumspection of suspicious swains had never gone the length of making her a social proscript; for the number of those whose hearts, as they approached her, beat only just fast enough to remind them they had heads as well, had kept her unacquainted with the supreme disciplines of her sex and age.
The Portrait of a Lady
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You will probably be unacquainted with the meaning which attaches to the figure of the product, but it will occur to you that the 9 of spades is regarded as the disappointment in cartomancy.
Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer
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Of course the circumspection of suspicious swains had never gone the length of making her a social proscript; for the number of those whose hearts, as they approached her, beat only just fast enough to remind them they had heads as well, had kept her unacquainted with the supreme discipline of her sex and age.
The Portrait of a Lady
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For those unacquainted with her work, let me give you a treat.
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Our antiquary writes like one unacquainted with his subject; no man, I believe, ever talked _of charging_ a gun with a _tampion_; neither would the said _tampion_ (consisting of a piece of hard oak) have done much less mischief than a stone, if pointed from the Thames at the Queen's
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1
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And, if you are unacquainted with them, I recommend them unreservedly.