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Example sentences for "intimate knowledge"

  • My love and my intimate knowledge of one of them may, perhaps, deceive me.

  • Indeed, I wrote with a familiarity acquired through an intimate knowledge of the works of his genius, and I pointed out to him what it was that offended me in his writings.

  • A mere glance at the letter will reveal to the reader Petrarch’s intimate knowledge of the complete works of Horace.

  • I shall quote his exact words, because he had an intimate knowledge of both Latin and Greek, and was especially skilled in the art of translation.

  • Edison was fortunate in being represented by a man with so much address, intimate knowledge of the subject, and powers of explanation.

  • Make him to see that he can the better become an honorable man through an intimate knowledge of labor.

  • The new method is that of educating them to appreciate what is under their feet and all around them, through an intimate knowledge of the processes of nature and industry as carried on in their midst.

  • He acquires an intimate knowledge of their problems, their point of view, including the status of their individual beliefs and prejudices.

  • That these conscious, or unconscious, reflections have not long ago been recognised and interpreted I impute to the lack of an intimate knowledge of contemporary history on the part of the majority of his critics and biographers.

  • You may well believe that they were worth the asking, and they revealed an intimate knowledge of our march from Savannah.

  • This subject of the wrongs of the colonies was the only one I could ever be got to study at King William's School, and I believe that my intimate knowledge of it gave the captain a surprise.

  • I have had an intimate knowledge of legislation, sir, for more than twenty years in this state, and in all that time I do not remember to have seen a bill more concisely drawn, or better calculated to accomplish the ends of justice.

  • Lord Ayllington's sigh was a proof of an intimate knowledge of the world.

  • The Japanese financiers have, moreover, the advantage of an intimate knowledge of their own country and its potentialities.

  • Some persons with an intimate knowledge of Japan have told me that it is not, after all, a constitutional State but in effect, though not in name, an oligarchy.

  • The results were precisely what might have been expected, and what indeed were expected, by those who had an intimate knowledge of the manner in which the Japanese Navy was organised for war.

  • Not only was it absolutely accurate as far as they could follow it, but it displayed an intimate knowledge of involutions of policy at which British diplomacy had only guessed.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    ancient family; been otherwise; black frock; but later; ces deux; civil servant; dozen others; even less; expect them; feet below the surface; higher life; human laws; intimate acquaintance; intimate friend; intimate friends; intimate knowledge; left over; meanes whereof; mechanical power; mighty effort; otter skins; she would; spinal system; steel helmet; young officers