He had evidently made intimate acquaintance with the Boy's masterpiece.

"I may as well tell you how our very slight acquaintance with him came about.

A more extensive acquaintance with the ocean, has shown that this appearance is not unique; a similar one on the coast

"I shall hope to see you again, Mr. Lester," he said, with a cordiality which flattered me, "and to renew our very pleasant acquaintance.

There was no reason why the friendship, such as it was, should not have lapsed into a mere bowing acquaintance.

Atterley looked around with the most intense curiosity; but nothing he saw, "surprised him so much, as to find so little that was surprising:"vegetation, insects, and other animals, were pretty much of the same character as those he had before seen; but, on better acquaintance, he found the difference greater than he had at first supposed.

It was, perhaps, strangely unaccountable that she should have chosen to invoke his help who was little more than a casual acquaintance; still, he argued as he reviewed the situation, she had probably been drawn to him as the one man on the spot who was likely to be of use to them.

Whenever he met with a person in mourning, even though it were a familiar acquaintance, he would be certain to change his manner; and when he met with any one in full-dress cap, or with any blind person, he would also unfailingly put on a different look, even though he were himself in undress at the time.

Most of these memorials are commemorative of people locally distinguished, especially the deans and canons of the cathedral, with their relatives and families; and I found but two monuments of personages whom I had ever heard ofone being Gilbert Walmesley, and the other Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, a literary acquaintance of my boyhood.

How much keener, for example, is your understanding of Shakespeare's passage on the Seven Ages of Man because of your thorough acquaintance with the single word pantaloon!

Relations of hospitality, of correspondence, of wide mutual acquaintance, must not be left to mere chance; they must be furthered by the mind of both nations.

Only two interested himZadok, with whom he had already made a superficial acquaintance and had had one bout; and a smart, bright-eyed girl with a resolute mouth softened by an insistent dimple, who struck him as possessing excellent sense and some natural cleverness.

What can be more proper than to mention one or two of those obvious recommendations of his works, which must lead every human creature to desire a nearer acquaintance.

It therefore comes to most managers as a new and unfamiliar work, to which they can bring little or no acquaintance from experience.

Cooperative literary acquaintance test.

One day Kitabún, the wife of Gushtásp, in conversation with some of her female acquaintance, let out the secret that her husband was the person who killed the wolf and the dragon.

Indeedindeed, as anything more than an agreeable acquaintance I have never allowed myself to think of your brother:' and from my soul I believe her.

He thus made himself acquainted with every detail of the direct road from Kabul, viâ the Kabul river, to Jalalabad; and with him our practical acquaintance with that important route has passed away.

In my brief acquaintance with you in London, your conversations won me to the better cause, and rescued me from the polluting spirit of the world.

The act of expulsion was, of course, considered in the same light by his numerous acquaintance, many of whom condoled with him on the occasion.

No assistance beyond that of an ignorant woman to help keep order and teach a little sewing was obtainable, while Miss Whately's still imperfect acquaintance with Arabic increased the difficulties which are everywhere experienced in the conduct of a ragged school.

Dryden introduced him to Congreve, and through Congreve he made the valuable acquaintance of Charles Montague, then leader of the Whigs in the House of Commons, and Chancellor of the Exchequer.

You will be like a man with a host of friends where before, when his necessities were sorest, he found (along with some friends) many distant and timid acquaintance.

Such was the home of old Jean Marie Poquelin, once an opulent indigo planter, standing high in the esteem of his small, proud circle of exclusively male acquaintances in the old city; now a hermit, alike shunned by and shunning all who had ever known him.

Interviewers, acquaintances, actual and imaginary, beggars for themselves and for others, left their cards and hung around.