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Yes, yes, that is he; how is it, sir, that you are acquainted with this man?†
Chpt 3. *

acquainted = familiar with OR a friend or associate
He was particularly anxious to avoid marring the freshness of the magnificent baldric we are acquainted with; but on timidly opening his eyes, he found himself with his nose fixed between the two shoulders of Porthos—that is to say, exactly upon the baldric.†
Chpt 4.
D'Artagnan was not so dull as not to perceive that he was one too many; but he was not sufficiently broken into the fashions of the gay world to know how to extricate himself gallantly from a false position, like that of a man who begins to mingle with people he is scarcely acquainted with and in a conversation that does not concern him.†
Chpt 4.
D'Artagnan was acquainted with nobody in Paris.†
Chpt 5.
As they had long been acquainted with the king, they were not much excited; but d'Artagnan, with his Gascon imagination, saw in it his future fortune, and passed the night in golden dreams.†
Chpt 6.
I know no one but myself who is acquainted with the noble art of venery.†
Chpt 6.
And now that we are acquainted, superficially at least, with the masters and the valets, let us pass on to the dwellings occupied by each of them.†
Chpt 7.
Happily, d'Artagnan was not yet acquainted with such niceties.†
Chpt 10.
Both entered, and found themselves in darkness; but Mme. Bonacieux was acquainted with all the turnings and windings of this part of the Louvre, appropriated for the people of the household.†
Chpt 12.
"Let your Majesty remember," said Treville, "that Monsieur Athos is the Musketeer who, in the annoying duel which you are acquainted with, had the misfortune to wound Monsieur de Cahusac so seriously.†
Chpt 15.
As we shall probably meet with him again in the course of our history, it may be well for our readers to be made at once acquainted with him.†
Chpt 16.
You are acquainted with the Scriptures?†
Chpt 23.
He would have inquired after them of their mistresses, but he was neither acquainted with Porthos's nor Aramis's, and as to Athos, he had none.†
Chpt 23.
This is the reason why Monsieur the Principal has proposed to me the following subject, which has not yet been treated upon, and in which I perceive there is matter for magnificent elaboration—'UTRAQUE MANUS IN BENEDICENDO CLERICIS INFERIORIBUS NECESSARIA EST.'" D'Artagnan, whose erudition we are well acquainted with, evinced no more interest on hearing this quotation than he had at that of M. de Treville in allusion to the gifts he pretended that d'Artagnan had received from the Duke of Buckingham.†
Chpt 26.
D'Artagnan, whose inquiring disposition we are acquainted with, had not—whatever interest he had in satisfying his curiosity on this subject—been able to assign any cause for these fits of for the periods of their recurrence.†
Chpt 27.
He rode up a very quiet street, looking to the right and the left to see if he could catch any vestige of his beautiful Englishwoman, when from the ground floor of a pretty house, which, according to the fashion of the time, had no window toward the street, he saw a face peep out with which he thought he was acquainted.†
Chpt 30.
They immediately sent their lackeys for Porthos and Aramis, and on their arrival made them acquainted with the situation.†
Chpt 30.
As he was perfectly acquainted with the details of gastronomy, d'Artagnan and Aramis made no objection to abandoning this important care to him.†
Chpt 34.
d'Artagnan, keeping at some distance from his friends, darted a scrutinizing glance into every carriage that appeared, but saw no face with which he was acquainted.†
Chpt 39.
Then the young man tremblingly comprehended what a terrible thirst for vengeance urged this woman on to destroy him, as well as all who loved him, and how well she must be acquainted with the affairs of the court, since she had discovered all.†
Chpt 41.
I am acquainted with it; before we left Villeroy I settled the accounts of the regiment.†
Chpt 42.
The cardinal was acquainted with the activity, and more particularly the hatred, of Buckingham.†
Chpt 43.
You will go to Buckingham in my behalf, and you will tell him I am acquainted with all the preparations he has made; but that they give me no uneasiness, since at the first step he takes I will ruin the queen.†
Chpt 44.
Tell him also that I am acquainted with all the details of the adventure at Amiens; that I will have a little romance made of it, wittily turned, with a plan of the garden and portraits of the principal actors in that nocturnal romance.†
Chpt 44.
"and I have been wrong in seeing in the mission with which you honor me anything but that which it really is—that is, to announce to his Grace, on the part of your Eminence, that you are acquainted with the different disguises by means of which he succeeded in approaching the queen during the fete given by Madame the Constable;†
Chpt 44.
A passport for embarkation must be obtained; and the party must be acquainted with English in order to ask the way to London.†
Chpt 48.
"I ask no better," said Aramis, with that ingenious air of confidence which every poet has in himself; "but let me be properly acquainted with the subject.†
Chpt 48.
Shortly a human form appeared in the shade of the corridor, and the young lieutenant, with whom we are already acquainted, stopped at the threshold to receive the orders of the baron.†
Chpt 50.
If it be so, we trust your Eminence will deign to explain yourself, and we should then at least be acquainted with our real position.†
Chpt 51.
She was as well acquainted with it now as a mistress is with that of the lover of her heart; and yet Milady at the same time detested and despised this weak fanatic.†
Chpt 56.
Whither would you have me go, without friends, without money, in a part of France with which I am unacquainted, and where I have never been before?†
Chpt 61.

unacquainted = not familiar with

standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unacquainted means not and reverses the meaning of acquainted. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
I am acquainted with Monsieur de Putange; I met Monsieur Dujart in England; I know Monsieur de Treville.†
Chpt 61.

acquainted = familiar with OR a friend or associate
"Why, then, only see!" cried the novice; "we shall soon be well acquainted, almost friends.†
Chpt 61.
Yes; Madame Bonacieux, with whose retreat the cardinal was unacquainted.†
Chpt 62.

unacquainted = not familiar with

standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unacquainted means not and reverses the meaning of acquainted. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
As we have already said, Milady was admirably acquainted with this part of France.†
Chpt 63.

acquainted = familiar with OR a friend or associate

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