This Government has known the Philippine insurgents only as discontented and rebellious subjects of Spain, and is not acquainted with their purposes.
Everyone acquainted with his writings knows how full of Christ they are.
It has been my fortune to be acquainted with a good many celebrated preachers; and I have observed that, almost without exception, they have had a thorough acquaintance with the whole range of the higher English literature.
No home secretary is as well acquainted with the internal affairs of his own country, and no foreign secretary with the affairs of foreign countries.
Whatever especially makes us acquainted with the mysterious depths of human nature is deserving of our attention.
I am not much acquainted with German authors, as I read German very slowly; therefore I do not know whether any Germans have advocated similar views with mine; if they have, would you do me the favour to insert a foot-note to the preface?
Whence was Corinna made acquaintedwith your escapade?
We, a multitude devoted to thee, are too well acquainted with thy arms; yet thy tardy hand slackens against the foe that resists.
Twas a great remuneration for my stay, to beacquainted with the ceremony; although a path, difficult from the ascent, leads the way thither.
The horse which is unbroken bruises his mouth with the hard curb; the one that is acquainted with arms is less sensible of the bit.
Any one acquainted with a nice wide shallow Thames lock may think he knows all about such matters; but in reality he does nothing of the kind.
It is a libel, a hideous libel; but one which is, unfortunately, believed all over the Continent by foreigners not thoroughly acquainted with English folk in their own homes.
Blanc-Gilly must have been acquainted with these characters, inasmuch as he made use of them in the August riot, 1789, and for which he was indicted.
But as it is a tale which he is not acquainted with, and can only find out what it is by listening as it goes along telling itself, it is more than apt to go on and on and on till it spreads itself into a book.
He never meddled with any other town, for he was afraid to venture into houses whose ins and outs he did not know and the habits of whose households he was not acquainted with.
Whenever he ran across a girl or a woman he was not acquainted with, he got her fingerprints, on one pretext or another; and they always cost him a sigh when he got home, for they never tallied with the finger marks on the knife handle.
About this time he became acquainted with Davies Gilbert, Esq.
I had never seen this done before, though acquainted with tobacco-pipes; and it made me laugh, until I thought of the peril that must follow it.
I do not know how far you yourself may happen to have heard respecting these late discoveries in chemical science, but I dare venture to say that you are at least acquainted with the nature of the body to which I refer.
Upon my word," I interposed, "I had no notion you Ancient Egyptians were acquainted with the use of matches.
I did not suffer her to finish, but asked whether she were well enough acquainted with the house to know of any means of egress from it, besides the doors that were so straitly watched.
In this way, in a few minutes the two boys began to feel quite acquainted with each other, without, however, having spoken a word.
Mr. George offered to accompany him, but Rollo said it was not necessary, and so he took with him a boy named Cyrus, whom he had become acquainted with at the hotel.
When Mr. George at length came down, he was at first quite surprised to find that Rollo had thus obtained a companion; but before the breakfast was completed, he had become quite well acquainted with the Beekman family himself.
I hate your immense loads of meat, that is country all over; extreme disgusting to those who are in the least acquainted with high life.
The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks.
Please let me this time remain to take my part of the household duties, and make myself acquainted with the house.
The youths were delighted to receive a lecture on the forms of Terrestrial government, and the outlines of their history; a topic I selected because they were already acquainted with the substance of the addresses elsewhere delivered.
It was so; but though acquaintedwith the process, I had never believed that the change could be so absolute.
This may probably furnish precisely that tangible means of relation with some one acquainted with the conspiracy for which we have sought in vain.
I never, as soldier or envoy, was acquaintedwith other men's homes.
It seems incredible that Sir Henry should have been acquainted with an expert burglar--for such he apparently was.
We often feel sympathies or antipathies for persons we do not know; and when we are in a position to become better acquainted with such persons, it rarely happens that the instinctive prevision of our hearts is not justified.
I will not confide it to you yet; you will discover it soon enough, as you become better acquaintedwith me.
Perhaps it was because I was acquainted with her misfortunes that I thought so.
I was dancing already before I had had time to look about me and become acquainted with the company into which I had so audaciously thrust myself.
It seemed to me that I had taken the best possible means to become acquainted with my surroundings.
He seemed inclined to continue the conversation, and I asked nothing better than to become more fully acquainted with the husband of a lady who pleased me exceedingly.
Rodolph had written something very favourable about me, for, clasping me in her arms, she said, 'She was acquainted with my conduct towards her son.
I was not acquainted with the servant you alluded to, as, unfortunately, just about the time she entered the service of our worthy M.
Later, when we had become acquainted with Samoset and Squanto, we came to know that on the spot which had been chosen for our home, there had been a large Indian village.
It is of a somewhat grave character, sir, but General Rundle thought it very important that you should be acquainted with the last news.
Gregory went off to the tent of the officer with whom he was best acquainted in the Soudanese regiment.
There will be many civil posts open to those who, like yourself, are well acquainted with the language of the country; and if you can obtain one of these, you may well remain there until you come of age.
The boy had, for some years, been acquainted with the family story, except that he did not know the name he bore was his father's Christian name, and not that of his family.
These I could have treated with some of the simple drugs in the chest, but I refused to do so; for I could not have explained, in any satisfactory way, how I knew one drug from another, or was acquainted with their qualities.
Her vocabulary was a large one, and she was acquainted with most of the dialects of the Soudan tribes.
Yet they would have a right to sit at the board, to vote on all questions submitted to it, and to be made acquainted with all the proceedings of the corporation.
How, then, is the executive branch of the Government to become acquainted with the official conduct of the public directors or the abuses practiced by the corporation for its private ends and in violation of its duty to the public?
The Marques M---- kindly consented to go with me and help me through the interview, being of course acquainted with him.
He was good enough to ask me to spend a day or two with him at Port Royal before I left the island, and I looked forward with special pleasure to becoming closer acquainted with such a genuine piece of fine-grained British oak.
With his hungry appetite for knowledge, he was a guest in their villages, acquainted himself with their characters and habits, and bribed out of them by lavish presents of brandy the secrets of their medicines and poisons.
I found that I had been acquainted with some of her kindred there long ago, in the days when the Anglo-Irish rule had not been discovered to be a upas tree, and cultivated human life was still possible in Connaught.
The captain in his journeys to and fro had become acquainted with the present black President of Hayti, Mr. Salomon.
He was acquainted with many of my friends there who had been in the thick of the campaign; knew Sir Owen Lanyon, Sir Morrison Barlow, and Colley.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "acquainted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: abreast; aware; conversant; familiar; friendly; informed
