Use acquainted in a sentence
Sentences ending with acquainted
- I finally went to headquarters--to the White Caps--where I would have gone in the first place if I had been acquainted. [5]
- I also tried to convince myself that the mind was much more to be valued than the person; and in this she was not inferior, as I could discover, to any with whom I had been acquainted. [7]
- The satire of the remark is essentially true of Boston,--and of all other considerable--and inconsiderable--places with which I have had the privilege of being acquainted. [6]
- These pieces are strangers to each other, and it takes a century, more or less, to make them thoroughly acquainted. [6]
- I have spoken of the pleasure I had when I came accidentally upon persons with whose name and fame I had long been acquainted. [6]
- Far more of Mr. Emerson is to be found in this aunt of his than in any other of his relations in the ascending series, with whose history we are acquainted. [6]
- The dog saw me, too, and at once we became acquainted. [5]
- With Prince Hippolyte Kuragin, who was a secretary to the embassy, Bolkonski was already acquainted. [2]
- Count Ilya Rostov, in a military uniform of Catherine's time, was sauntering with a pleasant smile among the crowd, with all of whom he was acquainted. [2]
- However attractively the future is painted to them, they are attached to the planet with which they are already acquainted. [3]
Sentences containing acquainted two or more times
- I am somewhat acquainted with old-line Whigs from the origin to the end of that party; I became pretty well acquainted with them, and I know they always had some sense, whatever else you could ascribe to them. [7]
More example sentences with the word acquainted in them
- How many of you who are before me are familiarly acquainted with the name of Broussais, or even with that of Andral? [6]
- They are not yet acquainted, for Euergetes was living in Cyrene when Publius Cornelius Scipio landed in Alexandria. [10]
- From thence they would cross the peninsula of Sinai, and strive to reach the Egyptian army by forced marches, and make the king acquainted with Ani's criminal attempts. [10]
- He is acquainted with, and has access to, many of the planters who wish to adopt the system. [7]
- You are acquainted with Westminster Abbey, Mrs Jarley? [12]
- I'm well acquainted with the moon, and--" "Hush! [11]
- You are acquainted with the members down there, of course, else you could not have worked to such advantage? [5]
- They are acquainted with the entire history of the heavens and the earth. [10]
- Wolf was acquainted with the city, and perhaps would spare him a walk by informing him where the sick lads would find the best shelter. [10]
- You are acquainted with my past life. [10]
- I became acquainted with Monsieur Bihin, le plus bel homme du monde, and one of the biggest, a great many years ago, and have kept up my agreeable relations with him ever since. [6]
- Chrysilla was acquainted with life, and knew that Eros never mingles more arbitrarily in the intercourse of a young couple than when, after a long separation, there is anything whatever to forgive. [10]
- He never meddled with any other town, for he was afraid to venture into houses whose ins and outs he did not know and the habits of whose households he was not acquainted with. [5]
- I was acquainted with a tame magpie in Melbourne. [5]
- The Cossack officers wished to take advantage of this chance to capture some horses, but one of the superior officers, who was acquainted with the higher authorities, reported the incident to a general on the staff. [2]
- But, hereafter, I will turn me sadly away and say; "This does not answer--this isn't the style of king that I am acquainted with. [5]
- A few words will make us acquainted with them. [6]
- He entered his wife's drawing room as one enters a theater, was acquainted with everybody, equally pleased to see everyone, and equally indifferent to them all. [2]
- One bookseller to whom I applied told me that he had had a few copies before he understood the nature of the work, but that, after becoming acquainted with it, nothing should induce him to sell another. [5]
- A chief pleasure which the author of novels and stories experiences is that of becoming acquainted with the characters be draws. [6]
- Margaret and Carmen were made acquainted, and were drawn together by curiosity, and perhaps by a secret feeling of repulsion. [4]
- He was wonderfully well acquainted with the leading facts about the Andes, the Apennines, and the Appalachians; he had nothing in particular to say about Ararat, Ben Nevis, and various other mountains that were mentioned. [6]
- So he seemed well acquainted with the geology of anthracite, but did not pretend to know anything of other kinds of coal. [6]
- I am not well acquainted with the forms of procedure in the courts of New York, but in the West, sir, in the West--" The Judge. [5]
- Just as he was better acquainted with every province than the most experienced governor, with every band of soldiers than the sergeant, so nothing escaped him which concerned the private lives of those whom he valued. [10]
- I have long wanted a good chance for getting acquainted with the social sphere several grades below that to which I am accustomed, and I have no doubt that I shall find matter for half a dozen new stories among those connections of mine. [6]
- 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]
- I also became unintentionally acquainted with a secret, which seriously endangered his chances of obtaining the crown; and lastly, I prevented his carrying off a virtuous maiden from the house of her grandmother, an aged woman, beloved and respected by all the Greeks. [10]
- So we filled two large tin canteens with water (since we were not acquainted with the locality of the spring said to exist on the large island), and started. [5]
- Will," he added, turning to Wetherell, "let me make you acquainted with Jethro Bass. [9]
- I could say truly that in the forty-seven years I have been familiarly acquainted with him he has always been the handsomest man America has ever produced. [5]
- People who had tried to get acquainted with him had regretted it and dropped him. [5]
- When we got to the cabin we took a look at the front and the two sides; and on the side I warn't acquainted with--which was the north side--we found a square window-hole, up tolerable high, with just one stout board nailed across it. [5]
- Do not listen to the advice of this proud caste alone, but read every petition yourself, and, by appointing Nomarchs devoted to the king and beloved by the people, make yourself acquainted with the needs and wishes of the Egyptian nation. [10]
- The monk beckoned to several of the pupils, and made them acquainted with the smith's son, then stroking Ulrich's curls again, left him alone with the others. [10]
- I have pulled to pieces all the persons I am acquainted with, and put them together again in my characters. [6]
- He was bound to make himself acquainted with the place. [7]
- It was surprising to find in the desolate wilds of our country a man so thoroughly acquainted with everything useful to know in his line of life, and yet of such inferior rank and unpretentious bearing. [5]
- Now she was to become acquainted with it. [10]
- They are like those persons whom we meet in our daily walks, with whose faces and figures, whose summer and winter garments, whose walking-sticks and umbrellas even, we feel acquainted, and yet whose names, whose business, whose residences, we know nothing about. [6]
- We soon got thoroughly acquainted with the Lake and all its peculiarities. [5]
- I am to this day profiting somewhat by that experience; for in that brief, sharp schooling, I got personally and familiarly acquainted with about all the different types of human nature that are to be found in fiction, biography, or history. [5]
- With some of them I have been long acquainted, and I know that their accounts of diseases are no more to be trusted than their contemporary Ambroise Pare's stories of mermen, and similar absurdities. [3]
- Her eyes had the strange look of the cheerfulness that is intimately acquainted with sorrow. [9]
- In almost all the prayers with which she was acquainted, there was a reference to the life after death. [10]
- This visit to the Observatory is going to bring us all, or most of us, together in a new way, and it wouldn't be very odd if some of us should become better acquainted than we ever have been. [6]
- He had acquainted the nobility with his projects, and was afraid to see the Prince Royal before he had accomplished anything, "but their great promises were nothing but air to prepare the voyage against the next year. [4]
- The reading of the letter acquainted Jane Withersteen with the fact that something within her had all but changed. [13]
- All acquainted with the circumstance applauded the noble brother-in-law. [5]
- But one of the chief interests lay in chasing the seasons of the year up the mountain, and determining them by the presence of flowers and berries which we were acquainted with. [5]
- Early monuments prove that they were acquainted with the identity of the morning and evening star. [10]
- It may be that there are people who can translate better than I can, but I am not acquainted with them. [5]
- I was aware that she had a great anxiety on her mind at this time; and being acquainted with its nature, I could not but deeply admire the patient docility which she displayed in her conduct towards her father. [14]
- I also added that I was personally acquainted with that many there; but that was only to raise his confidence in me, for it was not true. [5]
- He, after learning that I had lived at Springfield, asked if I was acquainted with you. [7]
- Was it possible that he still intended him for the monastic life, now that he had become acquainted with his talents and tastes? [10]
- When she learned that both must have arrived in Ratisbon several hours before, she anxiously asked Wolf if he would venture to make her acquainted with these great masters. [10]
- Being at the studio of a sculptor with whom I am acquainted, the other day, I saw a remarkable cast of a left arm. [6]
- I have become somewhat more intimately acquainted with the writer of it than in the earlier period of my connection with this establishment, and I think I may say have gained her confidence to a very considerable degree. [6]
- Or, as I sometimes think, would it not be a new and worse chagrin to become acquainted with the extreme deadness of our community to spiritual influences of the higher kind? [6]
- But there are some whose chief studies have been in different directions, and who will not complain if certain facts are mentioned which to the expert will seem rudimentary, and which hardly require recapitulation to those who are familiarly acquainted with the common text-books. [6]
- I should be so pleased to become acquainted with them. [6]
- He was a simple-hearted old gentleman, of a shrinking, subdued spirit, accustomed to retirement, and very little acquainted with the world, which he had left many years before to come and settle in that place. [12]
- I promised to show him the most charming young person I have the honor to be acquainted with, and I must redeem my pledge. [6]
- At that time she had found little to answer; but she had often thought if only she could make the Mukaukas acquainted with Heliodora, he, whom she had known in the capital as a young and handsome admirer of every charming woman, would certainly capitulate. [10]
- All right, we shall be very glad to receive them and get acquainted with them. [5]
- I had not seen one of its kind before, as far as I could remember; though of course I might have seen one and not noticed it, for I am not acquainted with dogs, but only with cats. [5]
- Rostov's deferential tone seemed to indicate that though he would consider himself happy to be acquainted with her, he did not wish to take advantage of her misfortunes to intrude upon her. [2]
- In the ideal school, as I imagine it, the pupils of the senior class should be briefly made acquainted with what each one of the principal professions offers and requires from its members. [10]
- Dr. James Jackson says that relief of epilepsy is not to be attained by any medicine with which he is acquainted, but by diet. [6]
- The writer, I say, becomes acquainted with his characters as he goes on. [6]
- What Mr. King said was that the satirist was not acquainted with the good society of either place. [4]
- If asked, Hillyer said no, he was not acquainted with it. [5]
- I tried to run across somebody I was acquainted with, but they were out of acquaintances of mine just then. [5]
- That's the regular routine --everything's red tape and routine in the law, you see; it's all Greek to you, of course, but to a man who is acquainted with those things it's mere--I'll explain it to you sometime. [5]
- He left the room, and Noel took his place and said that the interruption was to be deplored, but that fortunately he was personally acquainted with the details of the battle himself, and if permitted would be glad to state them to the company. [5]
- The more Mr. Richard became acquainted with the family,--that is, with the two persons of whom it consisted,--the more favorably the idea of a permanent residence in the mansion-house seemed to impress him. [6]
- There is no regular livery stable in Honolulu, or, indeed, in any part of the Kingdom of Hawaii; therefore unless you are acquainted with wealthy residents (who all have good horses), you must hire animals of the wretchedest description from the Kanakas. [5]
- What with my recollections and the photographs with which I was familiarly acquainted, it had nothing very new for me. [6]
- Most men are reasonable when you get well acquainted with them. [4]
- Most of my readers are somewhat acquainted with our own church and village celebrations. [6]
- The thing you proposed, it seemed to me, I ought to understand myself before it was set on foot by my direction or permission; and I really had no time to make myself acquainted with it. [7]
- Then follows the principal group, which is one of the most lovely works of Greek art that I am acquainted with. [10]
- Besides, he was personally acquainted with the great founders of my science, Thomas Young and Francois Champollion, and had obtained an insight into deciphering the hieroglyphics. [10]
- I was not personally acquainted with ten of them, and yet they said, "Don't you worry, and don't you hurry. [5]
- I am now personally acquainted with seventy-two captains and ninety-six missionaries. [5]
- He had taken pains to become acquainted with agricultural chemistry; and the neighboring farmers owed him some useful hints about the management of their land. [6]
- Phanes can betray our land to any foreign enemy; he is as intimately acquainted with it as we are; and beside this, he possesses a secret, the knowledge of which would convert our most powerful ally into a most formidable enemy. [10]
- He was not only older, but sharper, better acquainted with the city and its ways, and, whatever might be the strength of Cyprian's motives, his own were of such intensity that he thought of nothing else by day, and dreamed of nothing else by night. [6]
- They thought the officials should have been chosen from among themselves from among prominent citizens who had earned a right to such promotion, and who would be in sympathy with the populace and likewise thoroughly acquainted with the needs of the Territory. [5]
- Or, if any of you are not yet acquainted with this worthy man, I will show him to you, for I know him well. [10]
- Question and reply now followed one another in rapid succession, and both were soon acquainted with everything worth knowing; nay, Hermon had even delivered Daphne's rose to his friend, and informed him what had befallen the Gaul who was being brought into the house. [10]
- Helen Darley knew nothing of it all until she hard risen, when the gossipy matron of the establishment made her acquainted with all its details, embellished with such additional ornamental appendages as it had caught up in transmission from lip to lip. [6]
- Mrs. Eddy is not well acquainted with the English language, and she is seldom able to say in it what she is trying to say. [5]
- But it was not until long after this period that I became intimately acquainted with him, and I must again have recourse to the classmates and friends who have favored me with their reminiscences of this period of his life. [6]
- It was the next thing to being acquainted with Noah himself. [5]
- I hate them newspapers; and I hate letters; and if I had my way I wouldn't allow nobody to load his troubles on to other folks he ain't acquainted with, on t'other side of the world, that way. [5]
- But this is my conjecture only, and the social geography of London is a subject which only one who has become familiarly acquainted with the place should speak of with any confidence. [6]
- In their talks Mrs. Mavick was in fact becoming acquainted with the mind of her daughter, and learning, somewhat to her chagrin, the limitations of her education produced by the policy of isolation. [4]
- It is the most satisfactory house I am acquainted with, and the most satisfactorily situated. [5]
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