There must be few of my readers who are unacquainted with the animated sketch that Hume has delineated of the English constitution under Elizabeth.
My friend is entirely unacquainted with these kind of weapons, and it would be madness on his part to go to the field with such odds against him.
I went to see him, and found that his wife was unacquainted with his situation, and that she was making preparations to have a grand party that night, at which she expected half the notables of London.
They were weapons which he was entirely unacquainted with, and he felt that the safety of his principal demanded a remonstrance against their use.
It is excessively painful to overlook heavy and unbearable pain, even if the sufferer be somebody unacquainted with us.
Thus does one pay the penalty of being unacquainted with the domestic customs of a country when first entering upon its experiences.
In so great a business it is a shame to be unacquainted with your intentions.
Among the higher classes, whether in the wealthy or the fashionable world, who is unacquainted with ennui?
They admired him immensely; but people unacquainted with war were astonished at his diminutive stature.
Being unacquainted with the English language, he rang for his secretary; but the latter was nowhere at hand, so the puzzled minister took the papers and proceeded to his wife's apartments.
I was so entirely unacquainted with the subject, that I understood nothing about it even then.
But, though unacquainted with the sea, they were familiar with salt, as is proved by the recurrence of its name.
But we understand that he was unacquainted with the terms of the will, and there is certainly nothing to suggest that he is in any way responsible for it.
It was stated that he had been seen on the twenty-third of November following by the housemaid of Mr. Hurst; but as this person was unacquainted with him, it was uncertain whether the person whom she saw was or was not John Bellingham.
As Vargas was unacquainted with Flemish, the proceedings of the court were conducted, for his benefit, in Latin.
Before dissolving the States-General, Philip, unacquainted with the language of the country, addressed the deputies through the mouth of the bishop of Arras.
These craft were miscellaneously picked up, their crews a mongrel pack, the officers mostly French, unacquainted with each other, and secretly jealous of Paul.
If Herodotus is correct in the period which he assigns to Homer, the Greeks were still unacquainted with Italy a century before the foundation of Rome.
It is a free question, I own; as I am unacquainted with him by person: but he is such a man, that methinks I can take pleasure in addressing myself to him on any subject.
The reader, unacquainted with the history of this raft and the people upon it, may require some information concerning them.
One unacquainted with the habits of these sea-monsters might have supposed that it still lived, and might yet contrive to escape.
Yes; the boy was unacquainted with the town, and he went to the house opposite with the note, and a man pointed to me as I was standing at the door.
I am unacquainted with the fact; still I insist, that those funds could not be called the funds of this kingdom?
Lord Cochrane is a man of rank, not unacquainted with the distinction of a star.
Charles was pleased with this overstrained compliment, which seems to have been calculated for a raw unintelligent barbarian, unacquainted with the characters of mankind.
The Highlanders distinguished themselves on this occasion by their intrepidity, which was the more remarkable, as they were no other than raw recruits, just arrived from their own country, and altogether unacquainted with discipline.
A body of six thousand men was formed under the conduct of Mr. Pepperel, a trader of Piscataquay, whose influence was extensive in that country; though he was a man of little or no education, and utterly unacquainted with military operations.
The impressions that he receives from pain or pleasure are neither strong nor lasting; and he is utterly unacquainted with all the punctilios of politeness and good-breeding.
It is quite clear that the givers, whatever may be their pretensions to a refined or literary taste, must be entirely unacquainted with Wordsworth.
To the ancients, unacquainted with the form of the earth, its position in space, or its relations with the other bodies of the solar system, the tides were naturally inexplicable.
Now, the people of those times had no ships and were totally unacquainted with navigation: it is evident, therefore, that they were not saved by vessels in ordinary use.
The inhabitants were peaceable and friendly, were unacquainted with the use of weapons, and very skilful in stealing.
The Romans obtained the models of their vessels from the Greeks, though they remained almost entirely unacquaintedwith the sea till the third century before Christ.
The sailors, unacquainted with the Southern sky, and dismayed at the absence of the polar star, were for a time filled with superstitious terrors.
I assure you, Miss Darcy, it is a great mistake, made only because people are unacquainted with our true character.
The consumption of such articles in a great mine far exceeds any estimate which a person unacquainted with mining operations could possibly imagine.
From the perpetuation of this error the masters of vessels unacquainted with the place, refuse to credit the pilots, when informed by them of the depth of the water.
Foreign pilots, unacquaintedwith its perils, seldom keep the necessary distance from the shore, and from the steepness of the rocks no kind of assistance can be afforded to the mariner from the land.
It is probable that the Spaniards were unacquainted with it, although the Indians, to my knowledge, have visited it from time immemorial.
The man unacquainted with the splendid American scenery will have a difficulty in imagining the imposing and savage majesty of the prairie the hunters were traversing.
