All 46 Uses of
acquaint
in
Little Dorrit
- But Mrs Clennam, resolved to treat herself with the greater rigour for having been supposed to be unacquainted with reparation, refused to eat her oysters when they were brought.†
Chpt 1.5
- 'I asked you last night,' said Clennam, 'how you had become acquainted with my mother.†
Chpt 1.9
- Plornish observed, not Smiling in return, And yet he hadn't the pleasure of being acquainted with the gentleman, neither.†
Chpt 1.12
- Me and my wife, we are well acquainted with Miss Dorrit.'†
Chpt 1.12
- 'It was her father that I got acquainted with first.†
Chpt 1.12
- And through getting acquainted with him, you see—why—I got acquainted with her,' said Plornish tautologically.†
Chpt 1.12
- And through getting acquainted with him, you see—why—I got acquainted with her,' said Plornish tautologically.†
Chpt 1.12
- Plornish, having been made acquainted with the cause of action from the Defendant's own mouth, gave Arthur to understand that the Plaintiff was a 'Chaunter'—meaning, not a singer of anthems, but a seller of horses—and that he (Plornish) considered that ten shillings in the pound 'would settle handsome,' and that more would be a waste of money.†
Chpt 1.12
- I believe I am not mistaken in supposing that I am acquainted with those features?†
Chpt 1.13
- …which I passed entirely in the back drawing-room—there is the back drawing-room still on the first floor and still at the back of the house to confirm my words—when that dreary period had passed a lull succeeded years rolled on and Mr F. became acquainted with us at a mutual friend's, he was all attention he called next day he soon began to call three evenings a week and to send in little things for supper it was not love on Mr F.'s part it was adoration, Mr F. proposed with the full…†
Chpt 1.13
- The showy house that was taken for life by the disappointed gentleman, and which does not suit him at all—who is unacquainted with that haunted habitation?†
Chpt 1.21
- 'Sir,' said she in continuation, 'you are acquainted with the family, and have interested yourself with the family, and are influential with the family.†
Chpt 1.22
- Three or four days of steady application tendered him master of all the facts it was essential to become acquainted with.†
Chpt 1.23
- 'You are not acquainted, then,' said Arthur, hazarding a random question, 'with any of her family?'†
Chpt 1.23
- 'Acquainted with any of her family?' returned Pancks.†
Chpt 1.23
- 'How should you be acquainted with any of her family?†
Chpt 1.23
- You can't be acquainted with people you never heard of, can you?†
Chpt 1.23
- Mr Pancks crowned his mysteries by making himself acquainted with Tip in some unknown manner, and taking a Sunday saunter into the College on that gentleman's arm.†
Chpt 1.24
- Solitary, weak, and scantily acquainted with the most necessary words of the only language in which he could communicate with the people about him, he went with the stream of his fortunes, in a brisk way that was new in those parts.†
Chpt 1.25
- No doubt you are well acquainted with the writing.
Chpt 1.30 *acquainted = familiar
- 'Now I,' said Blandois, 'I, my son, have a presentiment to-night that we shall be well acquainted.†
Chpt 1.30
- 'I have a strong presentiment that we shall become intimately acquainted.†
Chpt 1.30
- Fanny, my dear, you are acquainted with Mr Clennam.'†
Chpt 1.31
- There was enough of mocking inconsistency at the bottom of this speech to make it rather discordant, though the manner was refined and the person well-favoured, and though the depreciatory part of it was so skilfully thrown off as to be very difficult for one not perfectly acquainted with the English language to understand, or, even understanding, to take offence at: so simple and dispassionate was its tone.†
Chpt 2.1
- For this gentleman, when his fortunes changed, had stood at the great advantage of being already prepared for the highest associates, and having little to learn: so much was he indebted to the happy accidents which had made him acquainted with horse-dealing and billiard-marking.†
Chpt 2.5
- I meant to have spoken of it at breakfast; because I should like to pay a visit to Mrs Gowan, and to become better acquainted with her, if Papa and Mrs General do not object.'†
Chpt 2.5
- 'Well, Amy,' said Fanny, 'I am sure I am glad to find you at last expressing a wish to become better acquainted with anybody in Venice.†
Chpt 2.5
- You are acquainted, perhaps, with the famous name of Merdle?'†
Chpt 2.5
- 'I hear you are acquainted, Mr Sparkler,' said his host at dinner, 'with—ha—Mr Gowan.†
Chpt 2.6
- 'Venice Preserved too,' said she, 'I think you have been there is it well or ill preserved for people differ so and Maccaroni if they really eat it like the conjurors why not cut it shorter, you are acquainted Arthur—dear Doyce and Clennam at least not dear and most assuredly not Doyce for I have not the pleasure but pray excuse me—acquainted I believe with Mantua what has it got to do with Mantua-making for I never have been able to conceive?'†
Chpt 2.9
- 'Venice Preserved too,' said she, 'I think you have been there is it well or ill preserved for people differ so and Maccaroni if they really eat it like the conjurors why not cut it shorter, you are acquainted Arthur—dear Doyce and Clennam at least not dear and most assuredly not Doyce for I have not the pleasure but pray excuse me—acquainted I believe with Mantua what has it got to do with Mantua-making for I never have been able to conceive?'†
Chpt 2.9
- I am perfectly unacquainted with the gentleman's object in coming here at present.†
Chpt 2.10
- 'The gentleman is acquainted with Flintwinch; and when the gentleman was in London last, I remember to have heard that he and Flintwinch had some entertainment or good-fellowship together.†
Chpt 2.10
- 'I had a presentiment, last time, that we should be better and more intimately acquainted.†
Chpt 2.10
- 'Oh! you are acquainted with him?' asked Lord Decimus.†
Chpt 2.12
- '—That my daughter Fanny is—ha—contracted to be married to Mr Sparkler, with whom you are acquainted.†
Chpt 2.15
- I am wholly unacquainted with it.†
Chpt 2.17
- But she begged me to say, sir, that she had formerly the honour of being acquainted with Miss Dorrit.†
Chpt 2.17
- He is intimately acquainted with a gentleman of good family (but in indifferent circumstances), of whom I am a—hum—patron.'†
Chpt 2.17
- Being in London for a short time on affairs connected with—ha—my estate, and hearing of this strange disappearance, I wished to make myself acquainted with the circumstances at first-hand, because there is—ha hum—an English gentleman in Italy whom I shall no doubt see on my return, who has been in habits of close and daily intimacy with Monsieur Blandois.†
Chpt 2.17
- 'A name you are acquainted with.'†
Chpt 2.20
- I am acquainted with no reason for examining myself, or for being examined, about it.'†
Chpt 2.20
- She then makes a proposition, which is, in effect, that she has seen us much together; that it appears to her that I am for the passing time the cat of the house, the friend of the family; that her curiosity and her chagrins awaken the fancy to be acquainted with their movements, to know the manner of their life, how the fair Gowana is beloved, how the fair Gowana is cherished, and so on.†
Chpt 2.28
- Then Arthur's father, who has all along been secretly pining in the ways of virtuous ruggedness for those accursed snares which are called the Arts, becomes acquainted with her.†
Chpt 2.30
- If I should be quite sure that to be acquainted with it will do Mr Clennam no good—'†
Chpt 2.31
- Is any gentleman present,' said Mr Pancks, breaking off and looking round, 'acquainted with the English Grammar?'†
Chpt 2.32
Definition:
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(acquaint) to cause to know; or to cause to be familiar with