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Definition
to cause to know; or to cause to be familiar with
- I cannot inform you, but you will be duly acquainted with the reasons that have rendered such a step necessary at the preliminary examination.Chapters 5-6 (29% in)
- I am too well aware that though a subordinate, like myself, is bound to acquaint the shipowner with everything that occurs, there are many things he ought most carefully to conceal from all else.Chapters 5-6 (48% in)
- You are, doubtless, acquainted with a variety of languages, so as to have been able to read all these?Chapters 15-16 (95% in)
- It was this,—that while you had related to me all the particulars of your past life, you were perfectly unacquainted with mine.Chapters 17-18 (13% in)
- Pray, was Danglars acquainted with Fernand?Chapters 17-18 (26% in)
- "Alas, my boy," said he, "human knowledge is confined within very narrow limits; and when I have taught you mathematics, physics, history, and the three or four modern languages with which I am acquainted, you will know as much as I do myself.Chapters 17-18 (38% in)
- Any one who had quitted Marseilles a few years previously, well acquainted with the interior of Morrel's warehouse, and had returned at this date, would have found a great change.Chapters 29-30 (0% in)
- The young man was too well acquainted with the business of the house, not to feel that a great catastrophe hung over the Morrel family.Chapters 29-30 (60% in)
- His dress will procure him the means of approaching the scaffold itself, and he will deliver the official order to the officer, who, in his turn, will hand it to the executioner; in the meantime, it will be as well to acquaint Peppino with what we have determined on, if it be only to prevent his dying of fear or losing his senses, because in either case a very useless expense will have been incurred.Chapters 33-34 (62% in)
- He was, as we have already said, perfectly well acquainted with the literature of all countries.Chapters 35-36 (73% in)
- ...in thinking that my present ignorance of the first city in Europe is a reproach to me in every way, and calls for immediate correction; but, in all probability, I should have performed so important, so necessary a duty, as that of making myself acquainted with the wonders and beauties of your justly celebrated capital, had I known any person who would have introduced me into the fashionable world, but unfortunately I possessed no acquaintance there, and, of necessity, was compelled to...Chapters 37-38 (72% in)
- "The history to which M. Morrel alludes," continued Chateau-Renaud, "is an admirable one, which he will tell you some day when you are better acquainted with him; to-day let us fill our stomachs, and not our memories.Chapters 39-40 (40% in)
- Albert summoned his servant, and ordered him to acquaint M. and Madame de Morcerf of the arrival of the Count of Monte Cristo.Chapters 41-42 (17% in)
- "That evening," continued Bertuccio, "I could have killed the procureur, but as I was not sufficiently acquainted with the neighborhood, I was fearful of not killing him on the spot, and that if his cries were overheard I might be taken; so I put it off until the next occasion, and in order that nothing should escape me, I took a chamber looking into the street bordered by the wall of the garden.Chapters 43-44 (40% in)
- My intention was, if Caderousse was alone, to acquaint him with my presence, finish the meal the custom-house officers had interrupted, and profit by the threatened storm to return to the Rhone, and ascertain the state of our vessel and its crew.Chapters 43-44 (75% in)
- Had the unhappy man on whom she lavished her assiduities been previously acquainted with her, so sudden an alteration might well have excited suspicion in his mind, or at least have greatly astonished him.Chapters 45-46 (6% in)
- And then it was that, won by his mild charity, seeing that he was acquainted with all the habits and customs of my own country, and considering also that pardon for the only crime of which I was really guilty might come with a double power from lips so benevolent and kind, I besought him to receive my confession, under the seal of which I recounted the Auteuil affair in all its details, as well as every other transaction of my life.Chapters 45-46 (26% in)
- That same evening, upon reaching his abode in the Champs Elysees, the Count of Monte Cristo went over the whole building with the air of one long acquainted with each nook or corner.Chapters 45-46 (46% in)
- "I understand," said Monte Cristo, well acquainted with Ali's pantomime; "you mean to tell me that three female attendants await their new mistress in her sleeping-chamber."Chapters 45-46 (48% in)
- "I must confess to you, count," said Danglars, "that I have hitherto imagined myself acquainted with the degree of all the great fortunes of Europe, and still wealth such as yours has been wholly unknown to me.Chapters 45-46 (93% in)
- —M. Debray?" inquired Danglars, with an air of indulgence and good-nature that made Monte Cristo smile, acquainted as he was with the secrets of the banker's domestic life.Chapters 45-46 (98% in)
- Ah, ha, you are acquainted with the young viscount, are you?Chapters 45-46 (99% in)
- May I inquire if you are acquainted with Madame Danglars?Chapters 47-48 (34% in)
- "Now, then," said Maximilian, leaning on the handle of his spade, "I would give a good deal to know how it comes about that the Count of Monte Cristo is acquainted with M. de Villefort."Chapters 51-52 (43% in)
- Excessively; only imagine—but do tell me, viscount, whether you really are acquainted with it or no?Chapters 53-54 (21% in)
- They did not even acquaint me with their intentions, and I only discovered them by chance, that is why I have been so reserved with you, dear grandpapa.Chapters 57-58 (85% in)
- Well, sir, by the help of two signs, with which I will acquaint you presently, you may ascertain with perfect certainty that my grandfather is still in the full possession of all his mental faculties.Chapters 59-60 (7% in)
- A black satin stock, fresh from the maker's hands, gray moustaches, a bold eye, a major's uniform, ornamented with three medals and five crosses—in fact, the thorough bearing of an old soldier—such was the appearance of Major Bartolomeo Cavalcanti, that tender father with whom we are already acquainted.Chapters 61-62 (85% in)
- The Corsican, who had declared the vendetta against me, who had followed me from Nimes to Paris, who had hid himself in the garden, who had struck me, had seen me dig the grave, had seen me inter the child,—he might become acquainted with your person,—nay, he might even then have known it.Chapters 67-68 (32% in)
- I will, then, wait until the last moment, and when my misery is certain, irremediable, hopeless, I will write a confidential letter to my brother-in-law, another to the prefect of police, to acquaint them with my intention, and at the corner of some wood, on the brink of some abyss, on the bank of some river, I will put an end to my existence, as certainly as I am the son of the most honest man who ever lived in France.Chapters 73-74 (16% in)
- He related the manner in which he had become acquainted with Valentine, and how he had loved her, and that Valentine, in her solitude and her misfortune, had accepted the offer of his devotion.Chapters 73-74 (65% in)
- ...pale with emotion, had wiped away a tear; when Villefort, trembling, and crouched in a corner, had endeavored to lessen the storm by supplicating glances at the implacable old man,—"Sir," said d'Epinay to Noirtier, "since you are well acquainted with all these details, which are attested by honorable signatures,—since you appear to take some interest in me, although you have only manifested it hitherto by causing me sorrow, refuse me not one final satisfaction—tell me the name...Chapters 75-76 (47% in)
- "My dear Danglars," said Morcerf, "we have been acquainted for many years, and consequently we ought to make some allowance for each other's failings.Chapters 77-78 (70% in)
- If she had committed two crimes, I would say, 'Here, M. de Villefort, is a poison that the prisoner is not acquainted with,—one that has no known antidote, quick as thought, rapid as lightning, mortal as the thunderbolt; give her that poison, recommending her soul to God, and save your honor and your life, for it is yours she aims at; and I can picture her approaching your pillow with her hypocritical smiles and her sweet exhortations.Chapters 79-80 (86% in)
- Little acquainted as I am with the habits of Parisians, I should not have thought this the place for such a demand.Chapters 87-88 (71% in)
- There remained in the banker's house only Danglars, closeted in his study, and making his statement to the officer of gendarmes; Madame Danglars, terrified, in the boudoir with which we are acquainted; and Eugenie, who with haughty air and disdainful lip had retired to her room with her inseparable companion, Mademoiselle Louise d'Armilly.Chapters 97-98 (2% in)
- And since Villefort, the friend of Danglars, had acted in this way, no one could suppose that he had been previously acquainted with, or had lent himself to, any of Andrea's intrigues.Chapters 99-100 (20% in)
- Those who were acquainted soon formed into little groups.Chapters 103-104 (55% in)
- "Here is the relic," she said; "do not think it will be less dear to us now we are acquainted with our benefactor!"Chapters 105-106 (31% in)
- But there are some with which, on the contrary, I am not acquainted.Chapters 107-108 (32% in)
- The papers had related his various adventures, both as the man of fashion and the galley-slave; and as every one who had been personally acquainted with Prince Andrea Cavalcanti experienced a lively curiosity in his fate, they all determined to spare no trouble in endeavoring to witness the trial of M. Benedetto for the murder of his comrade in chains.Chapters 109-110 (2% in)
- "But how have you become acquainted with all these details?" asked the president.Chapters 109-110 (80% in)
- He descended the little staircase with which we are acquainted, and entered Noirtier's room.Chapters 111-112 (25% in)
- I will make myself acquainted with his intentions and will submit to them.Chapters 111-112 (97% in)
- Why, how came you to be so well acquainted with all this?Chapters 113-114 (65% in)
There are no more uses of "acquaint" in The Count of Monte Cristo.
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