I had of course to make acquaintance with all the diplomatic corps.

No one who makes the acquaintance of our forester will fail to admire him; but he is far too self-reliant and warlike ever to be taken for a darling.

By a chain of unanswerable argument, I have shown you that I hold the fate of your southern acquaintances in my hands, and shall be particularly sorry if you force me to hang Mr. PENDRAGON as a rival.

I made three acquaintances at a very early period of life, my introduction to whom was never forgotten.

Do you put it there to guard the solitary half-crown from the rapacity of your friend; or do you put it across your breast in case of an unexpected winder from your apparently peaceable acquaintance on the opposite side?

"Yer acquaintances among females being chiefly of the silly sort, it's no wonder we remind you of the only things you can look back on without blushing," Barney retorted; and a neighbor poking his head in the door to learn the cause of the hilarity, the conspirators sallied out for a jaunt until parade-time.

However, for a dead-beat, with all his imperfections on his head, I've formed a pretty large acquaintance for one day.

They had so much to talk about, the whole of a new and very wonderful life to speculate about and to plan, the whole of their past acquaintance to review; old doubts had to be confessed and laughed at; the inevitability of the whole thing from the first beginnings had to be recognized, proved, and exhibited.

I do not know whether Smith has yet got a poet to look after the cattle, which, on account of the early breaking up of the ice, are compelled to summer in the woods, but I would suggest this office to such of my acquaintances as love to write verses and go a-gunning.

In peace the airman sees this solid earth of ours as no one else sees it; and in war he makes acquaintance by day and night with all its new and strange aspects, amid every circumstance of danger and excitement, with death always at hand, his life staked, not only against the enemy and all his devices on land and above it, but against wind and cloud, against the treacheries of the very air itself.

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

The acquaintance between the Effinghams and Mr. Jarvis had arisen from the fact of their having been near, and, in a certain sense, sociable neighbours in the country.

For my part, I little expected, when I last saw Keats at my friend Leigh Hunt's, that I should survive him. 'Should you ever pass through Pisa, I hope to have the pleasure of seeing you, and of cultivating an acquaintance into something pleasant, begun under such melancholy auspices.

" The sparkling pendant escaped her fingers; she picked it up again and spoke as though gravely addressing it: "Some day somewhere," she said, looking at the jewel, "perhaps chance the hazard of lifemay bring us totogethto acquaintancea more formal acquaintance than this....

And nowif mademoiselle is agreeablesuppose we adjourn to the skipper's quarters, where we can improve one another's acquaintance without some snooping steward getting an unwelcome earful.

"Verily, I ache all over," returned the new acquaintance under the hencoop.

However, we have heard, by inquiry, that you made his acquaintance through the medium of a matrimonial agency; and indirectly, when one does that sort of thing, one takes one's chance.

I had bid adieu to all my acquaintances before leaving the steamer, and consequently went ashore quite by myself.

Unaccustomed to seeking acquaintances outside her own exclusive circle, and under such circumstances, these meetings were to her in the nature of an adventure.

I will call upon you this evening after dark; for I have certain reasons for not caring to meet old acquaintances about town; and if you can afford me half an hour, I promise to complete my intended disclosure within that time.

She had made many new acquaintances during her brief glittering flight and had innumerable more points of contact with the University life than before.

Oh, they would help Julia Bride if they couldthey would do their remarkable best; but they would at any rate have made his acquaintance over it, and she might indeed leave the rest to their thoroughness.

For a moment Sofia thought him on the point of bowing, as one might on unexpectedly encountering an acquaintance after many years: there was that hint of impulse hindered by uncertainty.

" Lady Mary was suffering from cancer, which she concealed from her family and acquaintances until about the beginning of July (1762).

She was too pretty and kind-hearted not to be liked, if she was rich; and Cousin Charles was respected, because he made no acquaintance beyond bows, and "How-de-do's."