Acquaintances

Examples

• His acquaintances thought him enviable to have so charming a wife, and nothing happened to shake their opinion. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He had many acquaintances among them, but few friends, and no one whom he loved. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• That is an uncommon advantage, and uncommon I hope it will continue, for it would be a great loss to _me_ to have many such acquaintances. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• You might marry a professional man, or somebody of that sort, by going into the town to live and forming acquaintances there. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• How can he go about making acquaintances? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• At our time of life it is not so pleasant, I can tell you, to be making new acquaintances every day; but for your sakes, we would do anything. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• A perfect fury for making acquaintances on whom to impress their riches and importance, had seized the House of Dorrit. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• But I shall get away from people who have their own homes and their own children and their own acquaintances and their own this and their own that. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Mr. Yorke knew every one, and was known by every one, for miles round; yet his intimate acquaintances were very few. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Some of Mrs. Rawdon Crawley's acquaintances, however, acknowledged her readily enough,--perhaps more readily than she would have desired. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• My chief acquaintances at this time were Charles Osborne, Joseph Watson, and James Ralph; all lovers of reading. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• On this occasion the Secretary was accompanied by Governor Brough of Ohio, whom I had never met, though he and my father had been old acquaintances. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Becky's former acquaintances hated and envied her; the poor woman herself was yawning in spirit. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Mr. Hale had his own acquaintances among the working men, and was depressed with their earnestly told tales of suffering and long-endurance. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Your acquaintances and mine must be separate. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Your dear friend has need to divert himself with all the acquaintances he can make, seeing what a wife he has. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• She did not hear what Mrs. Hepworth was saying, and left it to Mr. Bell to reply, looking round, meanwhile, for her old acquaintances. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• His originality lay in the use to which these familiar acquaintances were put by introduction into an unfamiliar context. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• George was so occupied with his new acquaintances that he and William Dobbin were by no means so much together as formerly. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• But strangest of all to Lily was the encounter, in this latter group, of several of her acquaintances. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• However, the little I had done pleased my own acquaintances so much that they all advised me to continue. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I see no reason why I shouldn't make a few acquaintances hereabout. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Keep your weather eye awake and don't make any more acquaintances, however handsome. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• After talking over old acquaintances I asked him if there was any game around. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• She had a few female acquaintances, not, it must be owned, of the very highest reputation in Vanity Fair. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• There is good reason to believe that this company can be easily made up in this immediate vicinity, of mutual friends and acquaintances. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Miss Bingley told me, said Jane, that he never speaks much, unless among his intimate acquaintances. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Though whether Mr and Mrs Gowan are desirable acquaintances, remains to be determined. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• He was Sir,' replied the grave man, 'all Mrs. Leo Hunter's acquaintances are; it is her ambition, sir, to have no other acquaintance. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I met him at Athens, truly, but we were but acquaintances, so I never made any inquiries about him. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.

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