She did not remember the poor acquaintances and those of her neighbors who were poor.
Most of them are relatives and others are friends, neighbors, and other acquaintancesin town.
He felt sure that his own relations would henceforth hate him, and his acquaintances would stone him if they possibly could.
For a few days Milena asked all her acquaintances what a bank was, and at last she was informed that it was like insurances, one of those modern inventions made to enrich the rich.
Although he fancied that everyone he met stared at him, still many of his acquaintances passed close by him without recognising him.
And it should be remembered that my circle of acquaintances has been a very limited one, until quite recently--I do not wish to appear more glaringly arrogant or discourteous than I actually am.
It's simply disgraceful the way she carries on when one takes her out, making acquaintances like this, casually, all over the place.
And it would pain me deeply, very deeply, Dominic, that any promise given to me, regarding your place of residence, should stand between you and mixing as freely with those acquaintances as you might otherwise do.
There are usually several good points about everyone, and they show those to new acquaintances first; after that, you find something in them you don't like, so the best thing is to try somebody else.
Slight acquaintances called him slow and rather stupid, which was true on purely intellectual grounds.
We used to speculate as to who they were, and how Father Payne had made their acquaintance: we gathered that they were mostly the friends and acquaintances of his youth, or people into whose company he had drifted when he lived in London.
He hadacquaintances in several parts of the Continent, and we were generally provided with a letter of introduction to some one.
Mr. Foker knows the very best young men now at the University," the major said, "and Pen will form acquaintances there who will be of the greatest advantage through life to him.
Portman's red face looking over the doctor's shoulder, as he retreated from the Cathedral Yard, evidently quite dissatisfied with the acquaintances into whose hands Pen had fallen.
Mind this when you are at Oxbridge pursuing your studies, and for Heaven's sake be very particular in the acquaintances which you make.
All Doctor Portman's acquaintances barked out upon him when he walked the street the next day.
Pen had many opportunities of seeing his early acquaintances afterward, and of renewing his relations with Costigan and the old musician.
But if Miss Blanche found new female friends to console her, the faithful historian is also bound to say, that she discovered some acquaintances of the other sex who seemed to give her consolation too.
To him and to other acquaintances I apply for information on the subject of tobacco.
Many of my white acquaintances go to these balls, and I am only following their custom and that of the country.
I'll be glad to introduce some of my acquaintances to you--French people of the artistic set.
When a minister stays but a year or two, his parishioners tend to be only acquaintances and rarely does he really know them.
He had many acquaintances hereabouts, really poor folks, who wore their boots until their stockings appeared before they had them repaired; nevertheless, it was possible to earn a day's pay among them.
So he must confine himself to home work, and must try to hunt up more acquaintances of his acquaintances.
I have decided to take some of the liberties so many of my acquaintances do, and enjoy life outside my home if I cannot enjoy it within.
I have known you and Elise since you were playing with marbles and rattles, and your mother and I have been very good acquaintances (scarcely intimate enough to be called friends) for more than a score of years.
And even if she disregarded the scandal of a few years ago, would not many of her acquaintances say and believe that necessity had driven her into a professional career?
He was glad that some acquaintances of Morton's came, and stayed late; sitting alone with his friend, he would have been tempted to talk of Alma, and he felt that silence was better just now.
When a week had passed, the novelty of things wore off; the friends began to wander apart; Miss Steinfeld made acquaintances in the pension, and Alma drifted into solitude.
Alma began to taste the old delight of homage, though she perceived that her new acquaintances were not of the world in which she had formerly shone.
These old acquaintances met her with a curiosity they hardly troubled to disguise; she herself was reserved, and took no part in the general chatter.
Speak of her how they might, her acquaintances in London still took trouble to inform themselves of her movements.
One of her newacquaintances was Mrs. Rayner Mann, a lady who desired to be known as the patroness of young people aiming at success on the stage or as musicians.
Among her acquaintances there was not one of whom she could venture to ask such a service.
The art student had acquaintances in Munich, but did not see much of them, and they were not the kind of people with whom Alma cared to associate.
She tried to forget all that lay eastward from Gunnersbury, rejecting every kind of town amusement, and finding society in a very small circle of acquaintances who lived almost as quietly as herself.
I doubt not, my friend, that you have acquaintances who can do things which you could not do for your life, and who by doing these things push their way in life.
She, therefore, always lived in a retired manner, more anxious to avoid unpleasant acquaintances than eager to make advantageous ones.
Friends and acquaintances thought the husband was a madman to continue his quest of birds when his family was in straitened circumstances.
I have a number of very good acquaintanceswhich encrease every day, for nothing is so easy as the making them here.
If among a crowd of acquaintances one friend can afford you any comfort, I am quite at your service there.
The acquaintances of this period of life are easily made.
Some acquaintances of ours must have spent a night here last week,' Trombin began.
The city youth knows the city ways and possesses the asset of acquaintances and friendships, if not of capital, in the place where he expects to make a living.
He is most likely to meet his acquaintances on the street, and he feels the pull of the out-of-doors.
If the tonic of the playhouse is not sufficient, a small fee admits to the public dance-hall, where it is easy to meet new acquaintances and to find a partner who will go to any length in the mad hunt for pleasures that will satisfy.
When you have of anybody no word whatever, you may assume with confidence that he is alive and well; for if acquaintances are wounded it is always known at latest in twenty-four hours.
In Reinfeld I'd speak like that, too, if I were in your place, but to believe you can impose on your oldest acquaintances is amusing.
I had the opportunity to salute, hurriedly and with surprise, and throw flowers at, many acquaintances whom I had not seen for a long time.
My friend gave my work a place in his window, and my acquaintances generally accorded unqualified praise.
This saying of the Philosopher does not mean that one ought to converse and behave in the same way with acquaintances and strangers, since, as he says (Ethic.
First, as to the extent of love, through a man loving not only his friends and acquaintances but also strangers and even his enemies, for as Augustine says (Enchiridion lxxiii) this is a mark of the perfect children of God.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "acquaintances" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
