Cooperative literary acquaintance test.

Being in town I thought I would run down to this dance for old acquaintance' sake.

He seems to take it for granted that the friends of his friend are at least entitled to respect if not to confidence, and without reserve he freely enters into conversation with you, and, when he goes, he salutes all alike, but no acquaintance ensues.

Her acquaintance hitherto had been of such a nature as to leave her mind inactive.

I have an acquaintance, the mother of a plump, jolly little tomboy of a girl; which child my acquaintance dresses in dainty embroideries and laces, delicately colored ribbons, velvet cloaks, and feathered hats.

But despite the assiduity of the baronet, the younger man let the acquaintance drop, and married a rich woman of inferior birth, for whom, at the present time (the summer of 1814), Elizabeth was wearing black ribbons.

We were sitting in the smoking-room as usual, he and I, when another local acquaintance enteredone who, I gathered, had been away for a few weeks and whom I had therefore not yet seen, and who (for this was the really important thing to my friend) consequently had not yet seen me.

Bridget's was more a waking bliss than mine, for she easily remembered her old acquaintance againsome altered features, of course, a little grudged at.

" Inform our old acquaintance H, that if he emigrates to America on the strength of this assertion of Cooper, (on which, you tell me he so much depends), he will, on his arrival, find himself egregiously mistaken.

For I have oft seen put to the test the truth of the proverb: Till thou a bushel of salt with a new acquaintance hast eaten, Be not too ready to trust him; for time alone renders thee certain How ye shall fare with each other, and how well your friendship shall prosper.

Marry, the pleasure of this acquaintance hath dost me a deaf ear and fifty pounds to boot!

"Call the first idle gondolier of thy acquaintance hither, Gino," said Don Camillo, with assumed calmness; "I would question him.

"I want to go over and make that fellow's acquaintance instanter.

Nor did a further acquaintance lessen this kindly feeling.

Every man ... can name among his acquaintances men of unusual culture who are coarse voluptuaries and others of the humblest education who have the delicacy of a refined woman.

Instances are common of slight acquaintances mistaking members, and especially daughters of a family, for one another, between whom intimate friends can barely discover a resemblance.

I have never since lent a stranger or casual acquaintance money. 3d.

And men that grow strange after acquaintance seldom piece together again, as those that have tasted meat and dislike it, out of a mutual experience disrelishing one another.

If his acquaintance press round him in publick places, or salute him from the other side of the street; if invitations to dinner come thick upon him, and those with whom he dines keep him to supper; if the ladies turn to him when his coat is plain, and the footmen serve him with attention and alacrity; he may be sure that his work has been praised by some leader of literary fashions.

A very popular clergyman of my acquaintance prides himself on never forgetting an inhabitant of his parish.

It was Miss Van Kamp, this time, who had been studying on the mutual acquaintance problem.

At Aberdeen, I found one of my acquaintance professor of physick: turning aside to dine with a country-gentleman, I was owned, at table, by one who had seen me at a philosophical lecture: at Macdonald's I was claimed by a naturalist, who wanders about the islands to pick up curiosities: and I had once, in London, attracted the notice of lady Macleod.

A witty lady of my acquaintance shivers when a cat walks in the room.

She had a pleasant, old-acquaintance sort of air in greeting me, as much as to say, "You and I have seen something of the world."

Pope was destined to make Jackson's acquaintance speedilyand rather unceremoniously, for Jackson was ill-mannered enough, instead of passing in his card at Pope's front door, as etiquette required, to present it at the kitchen-gate.