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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
  • But gradually, as the two teams became better acquainted, the mood warmed.†   (source)
    acquainted = familiar with  OR  a friend or associate
  • 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 man's had a year and a half to get acquainted, and he chooses now to get to know me.†   (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)
  • So you're acquainted with everyone involved in this robbery, is that— BRIGGS†   (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)
  • He likes to be acquainted with cute girls.†   (source)
  • But then again, this whole scenario wasn't exactly your typical get-acquainted affair.†   (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)
  • Are you getting acquainted with Cinnamon?†   (source)
  • You'll want to acquaint yourself with the equipment.†   (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)
  • ladybug and tunas get acquainted†   (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)
  • Kindly acquaint us with our ...honored guests.†   (source)
  • As I was getting acquainted with my new home, [ cleared the dried leaves.†   (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)
  • She was acquainted with the profound importance of seal blubber.†   (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)
  • As she pats me dry, I try to become acquainted with the District 13 Octavia.†   (source)
  • And of even greater interest to a close associate of mine, who sometimes manages to turn up quite a lot of interesting information in the course of things ...I believe you two are acquainted with each other?†   (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)
  • She belonged to a world so well acquainted with fatal gunshots that she had certain expectations about how they ought to be endured.†   (source)
  • How well acquainted, Chairman?†   (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)
  • Have you ever been acquainted with a gentleman who has hopped up on the wagon?†   (source)
  • Without introducing himself he began talking to her, as if they were already acquainted.†   (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)
  • I became acquainted with a couple of their San Gabriel Valley representatives.†   (source)
  • I will do what I can to acquaint you with your historical roots.†   (source)
  • THE FIRST DAY of school was always a get-acquainted day.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Mary," she says to the young girl, "you will help Dorothy get acquainted with her surroundings.†   (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)
  • Yes, and you and I need this little time to become acquainted before I recede and pour out through your memories.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • A place to get acquainted.†   (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)
  • I make it my business to acquaint myself with where objects properly belong in a house.†   (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)
  • But I'll leave you to lick your wounds or just get acquainted.†   (source)
  • By this point, I was well acquainted with Gervais's various percussions, but this wasn't one I was used to.†   (source)
  • If you acquaint your self with your self, you don't always like the person you find inside.†   (source)
  • "Miss Redbird," he continued, "we have received information that you are acquainted with Chris Ford and Brad Higeons.†   (source)
  • He was well acquainted with the tumors under discussion and did a thorough job of describing their effects on the body.†   (source)
  • "You've been acquainted with Paris your whole life," I continue.†   (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)
  • Ben and Brewster Place's Mediterranean grew well acquainted from a distance.†   (source)
  • He was better acquainted with Gus's pigs than he was with Mary Cole, and more comfortable with them too.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • You'd know all this if you'd bothered to get acquainted with the laws of your kind.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • "I thought it would be nice to get properly acquainted, since we haven't been introduced," said the ghost girl.†   (source)
  • Please be seated while I acquaint you with its ways.†   (source)
  • Nathanael Greene felt certain that Washington only needed time to make himself "acquainted with the genius" of the New England troops.†   (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)
  • Mortenson was already acquainted with Haji Mehdi, the nurmadhar of Askole.†   (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'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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • "I too have become acquainted with ambivalence," I said.†   (source)
  • She asked him get-acquainted questions.†   (source)
  • While a youngster, he acquainted the world with his jolly personality by stomping a groom to death.†   (source)
  • But I might help them get better acquainted.†   (source)
  • He and John and the art instructor become involved in get-acquainted talk about differences between Montana and Minnesota.†   (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 order to become acquainted with you,†   (source)
  • Were you acquainted with Lola Starr?†   (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)
  • In Bologna, someone with whom her family is acquainted is in trouble.†   (source)
  • After all, there wasn't going to be a pleasant get-acquainted chat over coffee.†   (source)
  • It will give us a chance to become acquainted.†   (source)
  • With no more towns apparent, Lou figured it was time to get acquainted with the gentleman up front.†   (source)
  • Every jurist' in Britain and every man acquainted with its constitution knows that the monarch makes all treaties.†   (source)
  • "Since you are still getting acquainted with your implants and the conditions," Chup said, "I can set our AI to monitor.†   (source)
  • How did you come to be acquainted with Mr. Cates?†   (source)
  • You would think they were barely acquainted.†   (source)
  • Before I had a chance to savor our date, get acquainted, or get near to her, Barbara became a mirage again.†   (source)
  • I realized how valuable Sofia would be to me in becoming acquainted with the world as it was now.†   (source)
  • I want you to help me get acquainted with my boys.†   (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 suffering of her own race.†   (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)
  • Going somewhere "through the country" acquainted you with the whole way there and back.†   (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)
  • We were acquainted.†   (source)
  • You're acquainted with Editha's verse?†   (source)
  • His wife had been the only woman he was ever acquainted with who was never scared off from doing what she said.†   (source)
  • MORE (Stonily) I am well acquainted with His Grace's generosity.†   (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)
  • 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
  • After all," he said, fingering the white sheet that covered his otherwise nude body, "we are well acquainted, you and I. A hijab is sufficient."†   (source)
    acquainted = familiar with  OR  a friend or associate
  • When finally he returned to the farm it was at noon on a warm and breezy Thursday, as Natalie was becoming acquainted with some of the unique features of her new mobile phone.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • "Oh, we're well acquainted, Sayuri and I," the Chairman said.†   (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)
  • Jason, the best way to introduce you to dreams is to acquaint you with some dreamers.†   (source)
  • "We shall become better acquainted by and by," he said, as if he had read her thoughts.†   (source)
  • I didn't even realize you were acquainted with him.†   (source)
  • If they find out that you're acquainted with a witch —†   (source)
  • Blomkvist was himself casually acquainted with a journalist who also appeared in the book.†   (source)
  • "I believe you are acquainted with my kinsman, Ser Axell Florent?" the queen went on.†   (source)
  • You were acquainted with Cicely Towers, deceased.†   (source)
  • You'll have ample opportunity to get acquainted.†   (source)
  • He was well acquainted with Chicago's long, cold winter months.†   (source)
  • Brienne, I am honored to acquaint you with my brother Ser Edmure Tully, heir to Riverrun.†   (source)
  • Permit me to acquaint you with them, my lord of Lannister.†   (source)
  • I really couldn't say, although I'm well acquainted with tales of his atrocities.†   (source)
  • Are you acquainted with William Cash, Annabel?†   (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)
  • Someone should acquaint them with each other, it might improve the harmony.†   (source)
  • Max was acquainted with goblins, having encountered some.†   (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)
  • He did his best to acquaint himself with their knowledge of magic.†   (source)
  • He needs nothing but to get acquainted with the place.†   (source)
  • I'm sorry we didn't have a chance to get acquainted.†   (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)
  • Let's get you acquainted and you judge his judgment.†   (source)
  • Her former husband Marco Angelini, her son, "I'm more than acquainted.†   (source)
  • LORNA WAS acquainted with an official of the Ministry of War who might have been her twin.†   (source)
  • Were you acquainted with my husband in business, Miss Taggart?†   (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)
  • 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)
  • "Ah," replied Jeod, "now there's an affair I'm well acquainted with...."†   (source)
  • My client is prepared to state that he was acquainted with Yvonne Metcalf, on a professional level.†   (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)
  • Over the next week Palmer got better acquainted with the pigeon and adjusted his own life to take his new friend into account.†   (source)
  • And although Katie and I were not well acquainted, she felt comfortable enough to knee me in the balls.†   (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)
  • My dear Ed: Forgive me for having taken so long to write to you, and to acquaint you with my change of address.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • While Jason and I were getting acquainted on the train, a gentleman behind me, as people often do when they're looking for something to read on the train, asked me if I was reading the magazine.†   (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)
  • Is it true that you were also acquainted with a certain cat which the widow entertained as a familiar spirit?†   (source)
  • Even though General Tottori had been my danna until the previous year, I certainly wasn't the only geisha acquainted with him.†   (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)
  • 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 was way too acquainted with the narrow-minded, "our way is the only right way" ideas of the People of Faith.†   (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)
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