All 14 Uses of
acquaint
in
Great Expectations
- "It were but lonesome then," said Joe, "living here alone, and I got acquainted with your sister.†
Chpt 7
- When I got acquainted with your sister, it were the talk how she was bringing you up by hand.†
Chpt 7 *
- I may here remark that I suppose myself to be better acquainted than any living authority, with the ridgy effect of a wedding-ring, passing unsympathetically over the human countenance.†
Chpt 7
- I am not acquainted with this country, gentlemen, but it seems a solitary country towards the river.†
Chpt 10
- You are well acquainted with it now?†
Chpt 21
- When she was dead, I apprehend he first told his daughter what he had done, and then the son became a part of the family, residing in the house you are acquainted with.†
Chpt 22
- They allowed a very liberal table to Mr. and Mrs. Pocket, yet it always appeared to me that by far the best part of the house to have boarded in would have been the kitchen,— always supposing the boarder capable of self-defence, for, before I had been there a week, a neighboring lady with whom the family were personally unacquainted, wrote in to say that she had seen Millers slapping the baby.†
Chpt 23
- After dinner a bottle of choice old port was placed before my guardian (he was evidently well acquainted with the vintage), and the two ladies left us.†
Chpt 29
- "At Epsom races, a matter of over twenty years ago, I got acquainted wi' a man whose skull I'd crack wi' this poker, like the claw of a lobster, if I'd got it on this hob.†
Chpt 42
- You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with.†
Chpt 44
- You are acquainted with the young lady, most probably?†
Chpt 45
- I feel a particular interest in being acquainted with it.†
Chpt 48
- We had not yet made any allusion to my change of fortune, nor did I know how much of my late history he was acquainted with.†
Chpt 57
- He knows your character, Joseph, and is well acquainted with your pig-headedness and ignorance; and he knows my character, Joseph, and he knows my want of gratitoode.†
Chpt 58
Definition:
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(acquaint) to cause to know; or to cause to be familiar with