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Sentences ending with acquaintances

There are those who are friendless, and would be if they had endless acquaintances. [4]
They made their way without difficulty to the seats reserved for the senators' families, and when they had taken their places, the young man replied but briefly to the sympathetic inquiries as to his health which were addressed to him by his acquaintances. [10]
In dress he was always neat; he was quick to lend a hand to a being in distress, brute or human; was overflowing with good humor, and was the idol of all his acquaintances. [4]
The young gallants used to go into the yards and spy about the galleries and boxes for their acquaintances. [4]
Berg, closely buttoned up in his new uniform, sat beside his wife explaining to her that one always could and should be acquainted with people above one, because only then does one get satisfaction from acquaintances. [2]
Hardly anybody seemed to know her, and she seemed not at all disposed to make acquaintances. [6]
Irving's letters of this period are full of the gossip of the town and the matrimonial fate of his acquaintances. [4]
She had attributed this latter partly to jealousy of her, for no one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances. [5]
It might be the crisis of two lives, but to the spectator nothing more was seen than the everyday meeting of friends and acquaintances. [4]
Several guests from the city entered at the same time through another door, among whom, robed in handsome festal garments, were Eva's new Swabian acquaintances. [10]

Short sentences using acquaintances

I make lots of acquaintances. [5]

More example sentences with the word acquaintances in them

He had as yet made few literary acquaintances in England. [4]
He was alone, without friends, except among the acquaintances he had made in his new residence. [6]
Kiechel says that when the criminal was driven in the cart under the gallows, and left hanging by the neck as the cart moved from under him, his friends and acquaintances pulled at his legs in order that he might be strangled the sooner. [4]
This is the way to live; this is like the Swiss Family Robinson, and all the rest of my delightful acquaintances in romance. [4]
Ripton knew it was there, Camden Street knew it, and Mr. Vane's acquaintances throughout the State; but nobody ever spoke of it. [9]
Mr. Cuthbert, too, was continually bowing and waving to acquaintances on the Avenue. [9]
Sometimes, on her walks and drives, she saw people bowing to her, and recognized friends or acquaintances of what seemed to her like a former existence. [9]
Frequently Paulina received visits from heathen acquaintances in rich dresses and the sight of them always reminded Arsinoe of former days. [10]
Thirty cultivated and very musical ladies and gentlemen present--all of them acquaintances and many of them personal friends of mine. [5]
It was in vain that he applied to his business acquaintances and friends; it was a period of sudden panic and no money. [5]
Though by the twentieth of August nearly all the Rostovs' acquaintances had left Moscow, and though everybody tried to persuade the countess to get away as quickly as possible, she would not hear of leaving before her treasure, her adored Petya, returned. [2]
She had never, to the knowledge of her acquaintances, been shocked. [9]
Knowing Mr. Stanley to be an able man, and not doubting that he is a patriot, I should be glad for him to be with his old acquaintances south of Virginia, but I am unable to suggest anything definite upon the subject. [7]
For by this time our two friends had found a circle of acquaintances, with the facility of watering-place life, which in its way represented certain phases of American life as well as the excursion. [4]
About the same time he received letters from Prince Vasili and other Petersburg acquaintances speaking of his wife's debts. [2]
Mrs. Clymer Ketchum, though her acquaintances were chiefly in the world of fortune and of fashion, had yet a certain weakness for what she called clever people. [6]
The history of this panic summer in New York would not be worthy the reader's attention were not the fortunes of some of his acquaintances involved in it. [4]
For Daphne's sake this decision had undoubtedly been welcome to the matron, and it pleased him also; for he still felt so ill physically, and so agitated mentally, that he shrank from meeting his numerous acquaintances in the capital. [10]
Interested observers --if there were any--might have remarked that his friendship with Mr. Hamilton Tooting had increased, that gentleman coming up from Ripton at least twice a week, and aiding Mr. Crewe to multiply his acquaintances by bringing numerous strangers to see him. [9]
We soon reached the town of Nelson, and spent the most of the day there, visiting acquaintances and driving with them about the garden--the whole region is a garden, excepting the scene of the "Maungatapu Murders," of thirty years ago. [5]
Though in Moscow the Rostovs belonged to the best society without themselves giving it a thought, yet in Petersburg their circle of acquaintances was a mixed and indefinite one. [2]
On waking in the morning she told the Rostovs and all her acquaintances the details of Count Bezukhov's death. [2]
That he wearied the Council by his importunity and his acquaintances by his hobby, we can also surmise. [4]
I have heard that his acquaintances familiarly called him "Charley. [4]
Certain it is that he was less particular with his acquaintances. [9]
I made a sufficiently indecorous figure as I ran towards the water-side, barely nodding to my acquaintances on the way. [9]
The men who stepped from the chariots were old acquaintances of Hosea. [10]
The qualities, the spirit, that got him the love of his acquaintances he put into his books. [4]
He never was so summoned, but none of his acquaintances would have been surprised to hear any day that he had gone to Panama or Peoria, or to hear from him that he had bought the Bank of Commerce. [5]
When he had so many friends it was very thoughtful in him to remember the acquaintances of last summer. [4]
I tried to run across somebody I was acquainted with, but they were out of acquaintances of mine just then. [5]
In the next room sat the count and countess respectfully conversing with the prior, who was calling on them as old acquaintances and benefactors of the monastery. [2]
She made acquaintances right and left, and took a simple interest in everybody and everything. [4]
These different people--businessmen, relations, and acquaintances alike--were all disposed to treat the young heir in the most friendly and flattering manner: they were all evidently firmly convinced of Pierre's noble qualities. [2]
Old club friends rallied him as a deserter, and new acquaintances flocked about him; and presently he awakened to the fact that his Indian wife had been an interest of the season, was not the least admired person present. [11]
It is quite probable that we shall find we have had mutual acquaintances. [11]
And when after Pierre's departure Helene returned to Petersburg, she was received by all her acquaintances not only cordially, but even with a shade of deference due to her misfortune. [2]
In every town people sought out the list of their friends and acquaintances, and turned away in disappointment. [14]
It was too painful to meet his acquaintances in his altered circumstances, and it was too expensive. [4]
The Widow thought over her acquaintances. [6]
The best acquaintances one makes will be English,--people with no nonsense and strong individuality; and one gets no end of entertainment from the other sort. [4]
When he grew older he would walk the length of Olive Street, look into face after face of acquaintances, not a quiver of recognition in his eyes. [9]
Two or three older acquaintances whom we met charged us, in all haste, to tell our mother; but she had heard it already, and her joy was so great that she forgot to scold us for staying away so long. [10]
By the help of your friends, I shall have a title or two for acquaintances before I leave London; and when my money is gone, there is a shipowner I know of who will give me employment, if I have not obtained preferment. [9]
When a part of the audience sat on the stage, and gentlemen lounged or reeled across it in the midst of a play, to speak to acquaintances in the audience, the illusion could not have been very strong. [4]
All the details of our intercourse with her and other new acquaintances who played with us in the garden have vanished from my memory, for the occurrences of that time are thrown into shadow by the public events and political excitement around us. [10]
At the time of my birth she was thirty-five, and, as I have heard from many old acquaintances, in the full glow of her beauty. [10]
But the list of Mr. Crewe's acquaintances is too long and too broad to dwell upon further in these pages. [9]
Several particular acquaintances of mine were talking on the steps as we passed out. [4]
They were acquaintances of each other. [5]
After one afternoon of despondency we both voted it the worst of bad policy to remain aloof and nurse our misfortune, and spent our first evening in making acquaintances over a deal of very thin "debtor's claret. [9]
I make lots of acquaintances there. [5]
All the Moscow notabilities, all the Rostovs' acquaintances, were at the Razumovskis' chapel, for, as if expecting something to happen, many wealthy families who usually left town for their country estates had not gone away that summer. [2]
Her heart had not shrunken in the process, nor had she forgotten her somewhat heterogeneous acquaintances in the southern part of the city. [9]
If I did not get my money, I acquired, at least, a host of distinguished acquaintances. [9]
Is it not necessary to have an authentic list of pasteboard acquaintances to invite to the receptions? [4]
Still, almost all my mother's acquaintances, and the younger ones without exception, felt a desire for better political conditions and a constitution for the brave, loyal, reflecting, and well-educated Prussian people. [10]
He asked about mutual acquaintances, and she became still more animated and chattered away giving him greetings from various people and retailing the town gossip. [2]
Your father, your mother, found the scattered leaves gathered in a volume, and smiled upon them as not uncompanionable acquaintances. [6]
He recognized the members of his own family and his _old_ friends; but, as I infer from this statement, he found a difficulty in remembering the faces of new acquaintances, as is common with old persons. [6]
King found here many acquaintances, for fashion follows a certain routine, and there is a hidden law by which the White Mountains break the transition from the sea-coast to Lenox. [4]
He now made many acquaintances who afterwards became his kind and valued friends. [6]
I went on making acquaintances and gathering up information. [5]
They were very likely going thither; at any rate they would not remain in Memphis, and then it would be a piece of good fortune to be introduced to the society of the capital by such people as their new acquaintances. [10]
I like this knocking around, loose and easy, and making acquaintances and talking. [5]
If the note issues from a three-story mansion-house, and goes to two-story acquaintances, they will all be in an excellent state of health, and have much pleasure in accepting this very polite invitation. [6]
Of course, there is something audible to us when we speak; but that something is not our own voice as it is known to all our acquaintances. [6]
I was rarely interrupted, for the report had spread that I wished to be alone while at work; yet even the first year I did not lack acquaintances. [10]
She avoided all intercourse with other visitors to the spring after Ratisbon acquaintances had intentionally shunned her. [10]
In this way, incidentally, I made many valuable acquaintances among the "solid" men of the state, the local capitalists and manufacturers, with whom my manner of dealing with public questions was in particular favour. [9]
He was alone in a strange town, without acquaintances. [2]
Your brother and I are rather old acquaintances, though I never knew who he was before. [8]
He would visit his friends and acquaintances. [5]
Old acquaintances welcomed him joyously, and new ones were proud to shake him by the hand. [5]
The relation between him and his preserver was so entirely apart from all common acquaintances and friendships that no ordinary rules could apply to it. [6]
How many of her acquaintances belonging to the partisans of the King and Spain came to congratulate her upon it! [10]
She did not heed, if she heard, the busy and wondering gossip of relations and acquaintances, gossip that has no less currency among the Friends than elsewhere because it is whispered slyly and creeps about in an undertone. [5]
More than this; he sees us in a way in which many of our friends or acquaintances never see us. [6]
I think I have seen it make more than one of my acquaintances idle, conceited, sentimental, and frivolous,--perhaps it found them so already. [6]
But few persons had seen her after her illness, and on returning home she often mentioned the old acquaintances whom she had met without being recognised by them. [10]
And though we had instinctively begun to be careful, I imagine there was some talk among our acquaintances. [9]
Her new acquaintances had been instructed by her father how to treat her, and in what manner, and to keep the anticipated visit entirely secret. [5]
But Mr. Worthington had a worried look on his face, and was probably too much engrossed in his own thoughts to notice his acquaintances. [9]
Toward noon the guests arrived, and we assembled under a great tree and were soon as sociable as old acquaintances. [5]
There was a group of idlers, mica acquaintances of the morning, and philosophers in front of the store, and the Friend opened the colloquy by asking if a man named David Thomas had been seen in town. [4]
The footman having greeted him, knowing his habits and his acquaintances, told him there was a place left for him in the small dining room and that Prince Michael Zakharych was in the library, but Paul Timofeevich had not yet arrived. [2]
There were a great many ladies and some of Nicholas' Moscow acquaintances, but there were no men who could at all vie with the cavalier of St. George, the hussar remount officer, the good-natured and well-bred Count Rostov. [2]
By the way gentlemen, excuse the liberty, but it's about my usual time"-- The Colonel paused, but as no movement of his acquaintances followed this plain remark, he added, in an explanatory manner, "I'm rather particular about the exact time--have to be in this climate. [5]
At last he gained the tents and pinfolds of his people, not a few of which had also been overthrown, and asked the first acquaintances he met for Nun, the father of his dead mother and of Joshua. [10]
As to borrowing from his royal acquaintances his ideas are very simple and expressed without reserve. [6]
Many old acquaintances, friends, and family connections were our fellow-passengers. [6]
Now her old friends and acquaintances showed her plainly enough how little they cared for her withdrawal. [10]
Lord, how my friends and acquaintances fall about me now, in my gray-headed days! [5]
Seeing, however, a friendly and familiar smile on the face of the other, he quickened his steps, and, holding out his hand with a heartiness for which none of his Persian acquaintances would have given him credit, exclaimed in Egyptian: "Can I believe my eyes? [10]
But when I found them, they greeted me, so I fancied, like old acquaintances. [6]
Mrs. Bartlett Glow found many acquaintances here from New York and Philadelphia and Newport, and, to do her justice, she introduced Irene to them and presently involved her in so many pleasure parties and excursions that she and King were scarcely ever alone together. [4]
Her reserve vanished entirely, and the conversation between the new acquaintances became more and more eager, intimate, and delightful. [10]
How far he drew his characters from personal acquaintances has often been discussed. [4]
In the parqueted dining room this small house, remarkable for its extreme cleanliness (suggesting that of a monastery), Prince Andrew, who was rather late, found the friendly gathering of Speranski's intimate acquaintances already assembled at five o'clock. [2]
My friends seem determined that I shall not lack acquaintances, for I only decided today to go, and they have already sent me letters of introduction to everybody down there worth knowing. [5]

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