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  • I was personally acquainted with at least two girls he gave the time to.   (source)
    acquainted = familiar with; or a friend of
  • At the store is where I got acquainted with the little girl.   (source)
    acquainted = became familiar with
  • I was aware of all the facts, having been made acquainted with them by a young man who had lived there.   (source)
    acquainted = familiar
  • This Mrs. Younge was, he knew, intimately acquainted with Wickham; and he went to her for intelligence of him as soon as he got to town.   (source)
  • There was another bookish lad in the town, John Collins by name, with whom I was intimately acquainted.   (source)
  • The altar boy hesitated, well acquainted with Father Knowles' deep observance of church tradition… and, more importantly, with his foul temper when anything cast this time-honored shrine in anything but favorable light.†   (source)
  • It's always easier to die gently, to wake in due time in the place you were buried, to come to terms with your death and to get acquainted with the other inhabitants.†   (source)
  • So you're acquainted with everyone involved in this robbery, is that— BRIGGS†   (source)
  • But then again, this whole scenario wasn't exactly your typical get-acquainted affair.†   (source)
  • Are you getting acquainted with Cinnamon?†   (source)
  • The man's had a year and a half to get acquainted, and he chooses now to get to know me.†   (source)
  • I assumed that eventually all of this would explain itself, and in the meantime I set about becoming acquainted with my new surroundings.†   (source)
  • He still couldn't figure out why his father had granted the King of Eyllwe's request that his daughter visit their court to become better acquainted with the ways of Adarlan.†   (source)
  • As I was getting acquainted with my new home, [ cleared the dried leaves.†   (source)
  • He likes to be acquainted with cute girls.†   (source)
  • "You'll want to acquaint yourself with the equipment.†   (source)
  • She spent her days developing her skill in the large waves and her nights around a campfire with many other surfing expatriates and hippie characters who had migrated to the shores of Kauai. ladybug and tunas get acquainted†   (source)
  • Mary," she says to the young girl, "you will help Dorothy get acquainted with her surroundings.†   (source)
  • He himself had visited Antigua in the West Indies, he had told her, and he was acquainted with some of the plantation owners there.†   (source)
  • Without introducing himself he began talking to her, as if they were already acquainted.†   (source)
  • She belonged to a world so well acquainted with fatal gunshots that she had certain expectations about how they ought to be endured.†   (source)
  • Kindly acquaint us with our …. honored guests.†   (source)
  • "You've been acquainted with Paris your whole life," I continue.†   (source)
  • Yes and no. I think everyone has secrets, but we have been acquainted for years.†   (source)
  • I'll leave you guys to get acquainted.†   (source)
  • I believe you two are acquainted with each other?†   (source)
  • She was acquainted with the profound importance of seal blubber.†   (source)
  • As she pats me dry, I try to become acquainted with the District 13 Octavia.†   (source)
  • Although I was only slightly acquainted with Boukreev, I'd come to know and like Harris well dumped four quick photos of Harris and the preceding six weeks.†   (source)
  • Have you ever been acquainted with a gentleman who has hopped up on the wagon?†   (source)
  • IT WAS DURING THOSE FIRST MONTHS OF MY FIRST deployment that I became acquainted with the Polish Wojskowa Formacja Specjalna GROM im.†   (source)
  • She don't seem that well acquainted with her feets.†   (source)
  • On the night before he was making his official visit to Tennessee, for instance, Miss Sue told him that he had to be very careful in Knoxville, Tennessee, as she'd just learned from a good friend acquainted with the mystery novelist Patricia Cornwell that Knoxville, Tennessee, was used by the FBI to study the effects of the soil on decomposing human body parts.†   (source)
  • THE FIRST DAY of school was always a get-acquainted day.†   (source)
  • I'll leave you to get yourself acquainted with the workspace, and Denise and Josiah will be in soon to orient you and get you set up."†   (source)
  • No. But we were flown there for a weekend visit so that we'd be acquainted with the town—the layout of the streets, the buildings, the feeling of the place—in case we ever encountered anyone from Rawlings.†   (source)
  • The first Monday of September was The Night for All the New Kids Coming to Washington Irving Junior High School to Get Acquainted—which meant a whole bunch of seventh-graders who had probably lived in stupid Marysville their whole lives and one eighth-grader who had moved to town that summer.†   (source)
  • I became acquainted with a couple of their San Gabriel Valley representatives.†   (source)
  • Nila, however, was well acquainted with certain establishments—pharmacies, as she called them jokingly—where for the equivalent of double my monthly salary a bottle of medicine could be purchased subversively.†   (source)
  • Comrade Pillai told Inspector Thomas Mathew that he was acquainted with Velutha, but omitted to mention that Velutha was a member of the Communist Party, or that Velutha had knocked on his door late the previous night, which made Comrade Pillai the last person to have seen Velutha before he disappeared.†   (source)
  • I make it my business to acquaint myself with where objects properly belong in a house.†   (source)
  • Yes, and you and I need this little time to become acquainted before I recede and pour out through your memories.†   (source)
  • He and John and the art instructor become involved in get-acquainted talk about differences between Montana and Minnesota.†   (source)
  • I will do what I can to acquaint you with your historical roots.†   (source)
  • How well acquainted, Chairman?†   (source)
  • I am here to ask you some questions about a young man I believe you are acquainted with.†   (source)
  • Alexandre Vangeersad was a soldier and not personally acquainted with the king, but he had distinguished himself as the capable head of a garrison.†   (source)
  • "I take my job seriously, which means I'm going to need to get acquainted with the subject matter on a personal level."†   (source)
  • I really couldn't say, although I'm well acquainted with tales of his atrocities.†   (source)
  • Also, they had sold, to a Mexico City policeman with whom Dick had got acquainted, a pair of binoculars and a gray Zenith portable radio.†   (source)
  • I introduced him to Ellen and the two of them took several minutes to get acquainted before I said, "Ellen has invited us over for Friday afternoon," knowing in my heart that Moody would decline.†   (source)
  • If you acquaint your self with your self, you don't always like the person you find inside.†   (source)
  • You can't tell if he's really this friendly or if he's got some gambler's reason for trying to get acquainted with guys so far gone a lot of them don't even know their names.†   (source)
  • Outside, the landscape shimmered in the light and heat, and children from the neighborhood, children whose parents were younger and thus less acquainted with the possibility of disaster, shouted to one another in the distance.†   (source)
  • He fell to thinking of the Shape in the well pit, and then dropped into a drowsy half-dream, in which El-ahrairah said that it was all a trick of his to disguise himself as Poison Tree and put the stones in the wall, to engage Strawberry's attention while he himself was getting acquainted with Nildro-hain.†   (source)
  • I was way too acquainted with the narrow-minded, "our way is the only right way" ideas of the People of Faith.†   (source)
  • If you start in to work in the morning, like I reckon you will, you ain't got no other time to get acquainted with the gals but right now.†   (source)
  • Are you acquainted with William Cash, Annabel?†   (source)
  • This will give the resident houseparent an opportunity for a well-deserved vacation and will give you an opportunity to get very well acquainted with thirty-six boys ranging in age from six to sixteen.†   (source)
  • He was better acquainted with Gus's pigs than he was with Mary Cole, and more comfortable with them too.†   (source)
  • He'd finished the get-acquainted part and was talking about the need for readiness and the folly of being naive about the other side's intentions.†   (source)
  • While a youngster, he acquainted the world with his jolly personality by stomping a groom to death.†   (source)
  • Were he and my mother (and here they looked embarrassed and shuffled their feet while finding a word that wouldn't seem too indelicate) "acquainted"?†   (source)
  • Mortenson was already acquainted with Haji Mehdi, the nurmadhar of Askole.†   (source)
  • It was also a pleasure and a relief to have a maid who read and who seemed to be acquainted with some of the great masters of literature.†   (source)
  • The Chicago police soon grew as acquainted with him as the Phoenix police had been.†   (source)
  • Then, one day, I became acquainted with one of your predecessors—a Caretaker of the Geographica.†   (source)
  • I stood there mute, my hat in my hand and my mouth gaping, until her parents, who were well acquainted with such symptoms, came to my rescue.†   (source)
  • He was much better acquainted with the fate of a tribe of first cousins who had wandered away north in a diversionary movement and pushed inadvertently into Canada.†   (source)
  • By the time you receive this letter, you will have become acquainted with your grandfather, and we hope you are in his good graces.†   (source)
  • You'd know all this if you'd bothered to get acquainted with the laws of your kind.†   (source)
  • But I'll leave you to lick your wounds or just get acquainted.†   (source)
  • But I might help them get better acquainted.†   (source)
  • He was well acquainted with the tumors under discussion and did a thorough job of describing their effects on the body.†   (source)
  • "I too have become acquainted with ambivalence," I said.†   (source)
  • "I thought it would be nice to get properly acquainted, since we haven't been introduced," said the ghost girl.†   (source)
  • Nathanael Greene felt certain that Washington only needed time to make himself "acquainted with the genius" of the New England troops.†   (source)
  • Were you acquainted with Lola Starr?†   (source)
  • Lord Radisson—I believe you are acquainted with his lordship—has been bruiting it about that he feels it his duty to stay and 'set an example.'†   (source)
  • After all, there wasn't going to be a pleasant get-acquainted chat over coffee.†   (source)
  • My mother not being an islander and the islanders not being acquainted with pianos, no one realized at the beginning the effect of damp salt air on the instrument.†   (source)
  • Ben and Brewster Place's Mediterranean grew well acquainted from a distance.†   (source)
  • He was well acquainted with Chicago's long, cold winter months.†   (source)
  • She asked him get-acquainted questions.†   (source)
  • "In order to become acquainted with you," "That's not an answer.†   (source)
  • Gosh a'mighty, girl, thet rafter-rattlin' preacher give us plenty time to git acquainted thet day, didn't he?†   (source)
  • One is, after all, only really acquainted with one's own temperament and way of going through life.†   (source)
  • And something you yourself are just getting acquainted with.†   (source)
  • In the past few days in London, those acquainted with him have described him to reporters as good looking, courteous, well educated, wealthy and fashionably dressed.†   (source)
  • In Bologna, someone with whom her family is acquainted is in trouble.†   (source)
  • Before she left Port Royal, Henry K. Durrant, the surgeon in charge of the Contraband Hospital, presented her with a certificate dated at Beaufort, South Carolina, May 3, 1864: "I certify that I have been acquainted with Harriet Tubman for nearly two years; and my position as Medical Officer in charge of 'contrabands' in this town and in hospital, has given me frequent and ample opportunities to observe her general deportment; particularly her kindness and attention to the sick and…†   (source)
  • You would think they were barely acquainted.†   (source)
  • Every jurist' in Britain and every man acquainted with its constitution knows that the monarch makes all treaties.†   (source)
  • I'm as used to their house as mine and certainly getting acquainted with wheelchairs with both of them in what they call their "racing machines."†   (source)
  • With no more towns apparent, Lou figured it was time to get acquainted with the gentleman up front.†   (source)
  • I realized how valuable Sofia would be to me in becoming acquainted with the world as it was now.†   (source)
  • But purpose of call is to get you acquainted with this Wyoming …. who happens also to be a high region of natural beauty and imposing mountains.†   (source)
  • But gradually, as the two teams became better acquainted, the mood warmed.†   (source)
  • "Since you are still getting acquainted with your implants and the conditions," Chup said, "I can set our AI to monitor.†   (source)
  • It will give us a chance to become acquainted.†   (source)
  • A place to get acquainted.†   (source)
  • Before I had a chance to savor our date, get acquainted, or get near to her, Barbara became a mirage again.†   (source)
  • Caleb, the old canon, had come out of retirement to acquaint him with all the endearing— and exasperating—little ways of the forty-foot diesel launch upon which his life would depend.†   (source)
  • Sophie fell to eating her hot dog with truly serious absorption while Nathan unwound from his flight and began to get better acquainted with me over the clamor of the train.†   (source)
  • You shall make me acquainted with this good horse.†   (source)
  • Going somewhere "through the country" acquainted you with the whole way there and back.†   (source)
  • How did you come to be acquainted with Mr. Cates?†   (source)
  • It was at this time that my mother decided to acquaint me with work and obtained my job selling the Saturday Evening Post.†   (source)
  • I want you to help me get acquainted with my boys.†   (source)
  • "You're acquainted with Editha's verse?"†   (source)
  • We were acquainted.†   (source)
  • His wife had been the only woman he was ever acquainted with who was never scared off from doing what she said.†   (source)
  • All of them, without exception, were acquainted; they waved and called out as soon as they caught sight of each other, and they exchanged greetings as they passed.†   (source)
  • MORE (Stonily) I am well acquainted with His Grace's generosity.†   (source)
  • Permit me to acquaint you with my daughter.
  • You see, I wasn't acquainted with many-people.   (source)
    acquainted = a friend or associate; or familiar with
  • No doubt you are well acquainted with the writing.   (source)
    acquainted = familiar
  • I got more acquainted with him last Monday than ever I did before.   (source)
    acquainted = familiar (to know better)
  • True, true, you are acquainted with Miss Fairfax; I remember you knew her at Weymouth,   (source)
    acquainted = familiar (or a friend or associate)
  • Are you acquainted with Mr. Robert Ferrars?   (source)
    acquainted = familiar
  • May I offer you both some sup and drink that we might be better acquainted?†   (source)
  • Are you acquainted with a family called Parkinson, in Toronto?†   (source)
  • I didn't even realize you were acquainted with him."†   (source)
  • "Mistress Tyler and I are already acquainted," he acknowledged.†   (source)
  • "My dear Baron," the Emperor said, "become acquainted with the sister of Muad'Dib."†   (source)
  • "We shall become better acquainted by and by," he said, as if he had read her thoughts.†   (source)
  • "Oh, we're well acquainted, Sayuri and I," the Chairman said.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist was himself casually acquainted with a journalist who also appeared in the book.†   (source)
  • Permit me to acquaint you with them, my lord of Lannister.†   (source)
  • "I believe you are acquainted with my kinsman, Ser Axell Florent?" the queen went on.†   (source)
  • Brienne, I am honored to acquaint you with my brother Ser Edmure Tully, heir to Riverrun.†   (source)
  • You were acquainted with Cicely Towers, deceased.†   (source)
  • "You'll have ample opportunity to get acquainted.†   (source)
  • Please be seated while I acquaint you with its ways.†   (source)
  • "I'm sorry we didn't have a chance to get acquainted.†   (source)
  • "You are also acquainted with the deceased's family.†   (source)
  • Just to become better acquainted with it.†   (source)
  • Why don't you just walk right up to him and get acquainted?†   (source)
  • Max was acquainted with goblins, having encountered some. in Germany the previous year.†   (source)
  • "Well, we ain't much acquainted," he said.†   (source)
  • "Well, Hooch, maybe you better set down and let's all get better acquainted.†   (source)
  • By your own account, you were not that well acquainted with Brom before you left Carvahall with him.†   (source)
  • "You're in the line," the lieutenant said, "so let me acquaint you with the facts.†   (source)
  • Are you acquainted with a licensed companion, Georgie Castle?†   (source)
  • He is so amiable that I pronounce you will love him if ever you become acquainted with him.†   (source)
  • Jason, the best way to introduce you to dreams is to acquaint you with some dreamers.†   (source)
  • Were you acquainted with my husband in business, Miss Taggart?†   (source)
  • Someone should acquaint them with each other, it might improve the harmony.†   (source)
  • I believe it was during this period my mother became acquainted with alcohol.†   (source)
  • Are you acquainted with Mr. Shackleford, son?†   (source)
  • "It's good to see that my fiancée is acquainted with the right sort of girls," Mr. Bumble sniffs.†   (source)
  • You were acquainted with the deceased, known as Pandora.†   (source)
  • He did his best to acquaint himself with their knowledge of magic.†   (source)
  • Let's get you acquainted and you judge his judgment.†   (source)
  • My client is prepared to state that he was acquainted with Yvonne Metcalf, on a professional level.†   (source)
  • LORNA WAS acquainted with an official of the Ministry of War who might have been her twin.†   (source)
  • He needs nothing but to get acquainted with the place.†   (source)
  • I believe you are not acquainted with my theory of colds.'†   (source)
  • Many of the jurors, moreover, were "well acquainted with the deceased.†   (source)
  • "Ah," replied Jeod, "now there's an affair I'm well acquainted with…."†   (source)
  • Were you acquainted with a woman known as Lola Starr?†   (source)
  • I know of no such weapon, Eragon, and I am well acquainted with the lore of this forest.†   (source)
  • Her former husband Marco Angelini, her son, "I'm more than acquainted.†   (source)
  • "Acquainted with any of our residents?" asked the nurse.†   (source)
  • Star herself reconnoitered, and got acquainted in Nevia, too.†   (source)
  • I agreed, but our meeting is not of my choice, and I don't consider that we are acquainted.†   (source)
  • But for the first hour, while the new prisoners got acquainted with their new cells, there was much yelling from the guards about where and how to stand and sit, what not to touch.†   (source)
  • And although Katie and I were not well acquainted, she felt comfortable enough to knee me in the balls.†   (source)
  • The Count gave a laugh and a shake of the head: "It is customary to be acquainted with someone before you invite them to dinner, my dear."†   (source)
  • My dear Ed: Forgive me for having taken so long to write to you, and to acquaint you with my change of address.†   (source)
  • Now I had always supposed I had travelled very little, restricted as I am by my responsibilities in the house, but of course, over time, one does make various excursions for one professional reason or another, and it would seem I have become much more acquainted with those neighbouring districts than I had realized.†   (source)
  • If they find out that you're acquainted with a witch — " "John, how can you pay attention to anything so silly?"†   (source)
  • On that night in 1946 when the Count and Richard had first become acquainted over Audrius's magenta concoction, the American had challenged the bartender to design a cocktail in each of the colors of St. Basil's Cathedral.†   (source)
  • At that he took hold of my arm, and said I must come into the inn with him, and have a drink or two of whisky for old times' sake, as we had become so well acquainted in the coach; and I tried to pull my arm away, but he would not let go, and was becoming familiar, and was trying to encircle my waist; and several idle men were cheering him on.†   (source)
  • Only in a biography—or an autobiography—can you get better acquainted with Steinbeck, the person.†   (source)
  • Even though General Tottori had been my danna until the previous year, I certainly wasn't the only geisha acquainted with him.†   (source)
  • Is it true that you were also acquainted with a certain cat which the widow entertained as a familiar spirit?†   (source)
  • Mother and Auntie received the mistresses of the various teahouses and okiya, as well as a number of maids who were acquainted with Granny; also shopkeepers, wig makers, and hairdressers, most of whom were men; and of course, dozens and dozens of geisha.†   (source)
  • I can't pretend I was well acquainted with Admiral Yamamoto—who's usually described as the father of the Japanese Imperial Navy—but I was privileged to attend parties with him on a number of occasions.†   (source)
  • "Miss Redbird," he continued, "we have received information that you are acquainted with Chris Ford and Brad Higeons.†   (source)
  • You were acquainted with Pandora?†   (source)
  • But he was acquainted with only a few of the elves' many songs and none of them well enough to accurately—or even adequately—reproduce such beautiful and complex melodies.†   (source)
  • Earlier in the summer, I'd found the syllabi to a couple of the courses I was taking at Defriese in the fall, and I'd hunted down a few of the texts at the U bookstore, figuring it couldn't hurt to acquaint myself with the material.†   (source)
  • He must be "very exactly and minutely acquainted with the state of every regiment," Adams was lectured by General Horatio Gates.†   (source)
  • I am less personally acquainted with Mrs. Fauxmanteur, although well aware of her husband's lumber fortune and their sizable contributions to city charity.†   (source)
  • We expected her to be away for much longer, but she became acquainted with a lawyer, Holger Palmgren, who managed to spring her loose.†   (source)
  • She knew that Pete had been acquainted with both Mike and Julie for years—in the car, he mentioned that Mike serviced his car, and he got his hair cut at the salon.†   (source)
  • A sense of history settled on Roran as he realized he was involved with forces he had previously been acquainted with only through songs and stories.†   (source)
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