His mind might be set at rest by an introduction to Goliath, but the acquaintanceship would do no good to the beetle's morals.

And what I say of the attractions of man and wife applies equally well to other family relationships, to friendships, to acquaintanceships and even to our relationship to the people we pass on the street or the heathen we never saw.

He met her again toward the end of the terrible winter to which reference has been made, and found that a mere acquaintanceship had in the meantime developed into friendship.

With her husband's family it was the renewal of an old acquaintanceship.

It is all due to your acquaintanceship with my aunt.

As you value our future acquaintanceship, do not end our interview.

During all that time I had, however, but a merely slight and formal acquaintanceship with his gifted wife.

Evelyn Rogers had put him in more hopeless positions in their brief acquaintanceship than he had experienced in years.

They were no more than out of earshot of the group left on the porch, than Sylvia, as so often happened in her growing acquaintanceship with Page, found herself obliged entirely to reconstruct an impression of him.

Hewitt was very apt, in conversation, to dwell upon the many curious chances and coincidences that he had observed, not only in connection with his own cases, but also in matters dealt with by the official police, with whom he was on terms of pretty regular, and, indeed, friendly, acquaintanceship.

You begin a new acquaintanceship with perhaps not very charitable prepossessions; these later a deeper and better knowledge removes, and where you have before seen an idiosyncrasy you come to love a character.

She appreciated his courtesy in not attempting to force an acquaintanceship.

You dont, I suppose, move in the same circle as she; and if she is as particular as your own people, she can hardly form promiscuous acquaintanceships.

A long procession of conveyances stood outside the great iron gates of the Park, but the squire, owing to an acquaintanceship with Lord Saltash's bailiff, held a permit that enabled him to drive in.

There were some of her intimates here in the neighborhood, but she found greater security in the society of an older set of whom she had seen little in town and in the pleasure of picking up the loose ends of these acquaintanceships she managed to forget, at least temporarily, her sword of Damocles.

Hans was not always faithful, however, at this time to his good purposes, and we must confess the acquaintanceship of some gay young companions led him into some difficulties and dangers.

She affected to turn with reluctance from her budding acquaintanceship with Matthew Arnold.

Those acquaintanceships had seldom ripened; but perhaps this was because, though he and she avoided talking of them, he was all the time taking such terrifying care of her.

I flattered myself with the belief that they thought me a raw recruit influenced by some acquaintanceship with Dr. Frost.

Marfa, my old servant, was, of course, horrified at this acquaintanceship of mine, and warned me that it would mean both my death and hers.

As his social acquaintanceships lay chiefly among the Conservatives, he had no difficulty in getting frank expressions of their views.

On the paper, I read the following words: "Learn from the events of last night the value of temperance, the wisdom of silence, and the danger of chance acquaintanceships.

But one knows a person with whom one has passed even that short time under the same roof far better than can ever be the result of a very much longer acquaintanceship during which one meets only in the ordinary intercourse of society.

It is, indeed, certain that Voltaire's acquaintanceship was not limited to the extremely bitter Opposition circle which centred about the disappointed and restless figure of Bolingbroke.

"Your mother named you Pansy," she remarked, taking a gloomy view of the present moment and of the whole future of this acquaintanceship.