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• A bowing acquaintance. (4)
• William Larkins is such an old acquaintance! (4)
• And what an acquaintance has it been! (4)
• And what will then be their acquaintance? (4)
• Their acquaintance was exceedingly sought after. (4)
• He made little acquaintance with his fellow- passengers. (9)
• The very best people were anxious to make his acquaintance. (19)
• The acquaintance she had already formed were unworthy of her. (4)
• He had made his acquaintance years ago through friends in Trieste. (12)
• Its next acquaintance was an old stone-breaker, a very decent sort. (8)
• A consummate acquaintance with French was required to understand him. (10)
• May no woman of my acquaintance marry a man of twenty years her senior! (10)
• One day he made the acquaintance of a technical expert named Schlehdorn. (12)
• Their subjects in general were such as belong to an opening acquaintance. (4)
• In no other light could you have been more to me than a common acquaintance. (4)
• I made their acquaintance by chance and cultivated it for the pleasure it gave me. (7)
• There was one person among his new acquaintance in Surry, not so leniently disposed. (4)
• He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance, but that is all. (4)
• Now and then some other friend or acquaintance would join us for the hours of study. (14)
• A gentleman of his acquaintance called on him one evening to take him out for a walk. (10)
• Could it be all because Dartrey Fenellan countenanced her acquaintance with that woman? (10)
• I thought it coming on before our acquaintance ceased, but it is now a confirmed feeling. (4)
• His abilities in every respect improve as much upon acquaintance as his manners and person. (4)
• The acquaintance of a lady very much misjudged and ill-used by the world, Richard admitted to. (10)
• He knew nothing about it; but his father, like every military man, had a very large acquaintance. (4)
• My friend, Dr. Galliot, married his ward, and he had the best wife of any man of my acquaintance. (10)
• Front time to time during their progress I renewed my old one-sided acquaintance with the circus-men. (9)
• Mr. Mavering was merely a friendly acquaintance, and there could be no question of anything personal. (9)
• To have her acquaintance with the Tilneys end so soon was an evil which nothing could counterbalance. (4)
• Weyburn saluted the Frenchman as an acquaintance, and they shook hands, chatted, criticized, nodded. (10)
• If engaged to a lady, he was not an ardent suitor; nor was he a pointedly complimentary acquaintance. (10)
• On a more intimate acquaintance with the couple, you acknowledge the, aptness of the fine distinction. (10)
• The visit was paid, their acquaintance re-established, their interest in each other more than re-kindled. (4)
• He has made acquaintance with some of the officers here, and seems pleased at the compliments they pay me. (22)
• In the isolation of the sunny, windless sea, their acquaintance took on imperceptibly a personal character. (13)
• His growing acquaintance with the world taught him to put an increasing price on the sentiments of Miss Dale. (10)
• The gentleman in question was an acquaintance of mine; and the less you follow our example the better for you. (10)
• While they talked she kept an eye out for other acquaintance, and he stood alert to escape at the first chance. (9)
• They were alike too, in a general benevolence of temper, and a strong habit of regard for every old acquaintance. (4)
• This new but aged acquaintance did not seem to hear; his lips moved as though he were following out some thought. (8)
• Exchanges of smiles upon an early acquaintance between two young people are peeps through the doorway of intimacy. (10)
• In the summer he enjoyed much making the personal acquaintance of Thomas Hughes, who visited America at this time. (14)
• There he beheld, sitting in the background, an old English acquaintance, with whom Captain Gambier was conversing. (10)
• This is to be a real wedding-journey day, with no extraneous acquaintance to bother; the more strangers the better. (9)
• Not regret her leaving Highbury for the sake of marrying a man whom I could never admit as an acquaintance of my own! (4)
• To have been described long ago to a recent acquaintance, by nameless people, is irresistible; and Anne was all curiosity. (4)
• She had a large acquaintance, of course professionally, among those who can afford to buy, and she disposes of my merchandise. (4)
• Breckon had not seen the former interest between himself and Ellen lapse to commonplace acquaintance without due sense of loss. (9)
• Mr. Colesworth said he was the brother of the lady in question, he had also the pleasure of an acquaintance with Miss Mattock. (10)
• They could describe an entertainment with accuracy, relate an anecdote with humour, and laugh at their acquaintance with spirit. (4)
• Finally, in the morning, he met an acquaintance formerly at the school, Spangler, a tenor singer, himself nearly as poor as Haydn. (3)
• He longed for some familiar face to welcome him, and in the horse-car into which he stepped he was charmed to see an acquaintance. (9)
• But the truth is, the last paper I saw was dated 9th July, and I hate to make acquaintance again with the World and its goings-on. (14)
• Catherine was delighted with this extension of her Bath acquaintance, and almost forgot Mr. Tilney while she talked to Miss Thorpe. (4)
• Willoughby, on his side, gave every proof of his pleasure in their acquaintance, which an evident wish of improving it could offer. (4)
• At this extraordinary criticism the young man looked graver than he had yet been able to do since the beginning of their acquaintance. (9)
• Comments on the pretty play, indicating a reminiscent acquaintance with it, and the capacity for critical observations, were started. (10)
• That seemed the end; and we were going crestfallenly away when the officer of the day came out and allowed us to make his acquaintance. (9)
• If a man finds a woman admire him, were it only for his acquaintance with geography, he will begin at once to build upon the admiration. (2)
• Situated as we are with Lady Dalrymple, cousins, we ought to be very careful not to embarrass her with acquaintance she might not approve. (4)
• The suddenness of the evident intimacy between Clara and Colonel De Craye shocked Laetitia; their acquaintance could be computed by hours. (10)
• But have these English never read their Shakespeare, that they show so barren an acquaintance with human, to say nothing of semi-barbaric, nature? (10)
• I could rather believe every creature of my acquaintance leagued together to ruin me in his opinion, than believe his nature capable of such cruelty. (4)
• Elinor had always thought it would be more prudent for them to settle at some distance from Norland, than immediately amongst their present acquaintance. (4)

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