All 18 Uses of
acquaint
in
War and Peace
- "If Buonaparte remains on the throne of France a year longer," the vicomte continued, with the air of a man who, in a matter with which he is better acquainted than anyone else, does not listen to others but follows the current of his own thoughts, "things will have gone too far.†
Chpt 1
- I hope we'll get better acquainted," and he pressed Boris' hand.†
Chpt 1
- With Prince Hippolyte Kuragin, who was a secretary to the embassy, Bolkonski was already acquainted.†
Chpt 2 *
- "Now you, young prince, what's your name?" said Prince Bolkonski, turning to Anatole, "come here, let us talk and get acquainted."†
Chpt 3
- Boris, during the campaign, had made the acquaintance of many persons who might prove useful to him, and by a letter of recommendation he had brought from Pierre had become acquainted with Prince Andrew Bolkonski, through whom he hoped to obtain a post on the commander in chief's staff.†
Chpt 3
- 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.†
Chpt 6
- "I have the pleasure of being already acquainted, if the countess remembers me," said Prince Andrew with a low and courteous bow quite belying Peronskaya's remarks about his rudeness, and approaching Natasha he held out his arm to grasp her waist before he had completed his invitation.†
Chpt 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.†
Chpt 6
- He hoped to become better acquainted with the count and invited him to draw his covert.†
Chpt 7
- Almost smiling, he gazed straight into her eyes with such an enraptured caressing look that it seemed strange to be so near him, to look at him like that, to be so sure he admired her, and not to be acquainted with him.†
Chpt 8
- "Do make me acquainted with your charming daughters," said she.†
Chpt 8
- To get better acquainted she asked that one of the young ladies should come into her box for the rest of the performance, and Natasha moved over to it.†
Chpt 8
- 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.†
Chpt 9
- He was well acquainted with the senator, but thought it necessary on this occasion to address him formally.†
Chpt 9
- 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.†
Chpt 10
- 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.†
Chpt 13
- A series of experiments and arguments proves to every man that he, as an object of observation, is subject to certain laws, and man submits to them and never resists the laws of gravity or impermeability once he has become acquainted with them.†
Chpt 15
- The better we are acquainted with the physiological, psychological, and historical laws deduced by observation and by which man is controlled, and the more correctly we perceive the physiological, psychological, and historical causes of the action, and the simpler the action we are observing and the less complex the character and mind of the man in question, the more subject to inevitability and the less free do our actions and those of others appear.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(acquaint) to cause to know; or to cause to be familiar with