Unacquainted

Examples

• I was so entirely unacquainted with the subject that I understood nothing about it even then. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I am wholly unacquainted with it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The Chinese war rocket was a long, heavy affair, fitted at the end with a barb-like arrow, and to a foe unacquainted with firearms, it must have seemed a formidable missile. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I went down to ask him what he wanted, and informed him of my dinner-party, with whom I knew he was unacquainted. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• And that their money ought not to be given away without their consent, by persons at a distance, unacquainted with their circumstances and abilities. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Few were, I believe, unacquainted with the real character of Beau Brummell, among those who courted, praised, sought and copied him. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• It was a room, not unacquainted with the black ladder under various tenants; but as neat, at present, as such a room could be. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The third day's post brought me a most impertinent letter from a person with whom I was totally unacquainted. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I am perfectly unacquainted with the gentleman's object in coming here at present. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Over the porch of his school, the Academy at Athe) ns, were inscribed the words, Let no one who is unacquainted with geometry enter here. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• But I was perfectly unacquainted with towns, and large assemblages of men. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• You have no right to preach to me, you neophyte, that have not passed the porch of life, and are absolutely unacquainted with its mysteries. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I was obliged to confess--I felt ashamed, even of being at this disadvantage before Littimer--that Miss Mowcher and I were wholly unacquainted. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I know full well how changed I am, I know you are not unacquainted with my history, and I know what a noble love that is which is so faithful. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• For that document, though replete with language, is singularly unacquainted with the forces that agitate the nation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

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