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Example sentences for "well acquainted"

  • You may often observe, that tho he speaks as good Sense as any Man upon any thing with which he is well acquainted, he cannot trust to the Range of his own Fancy to entertain himself upon that Foundation, but goes on to still new Enquiries.

  • My Landlady and her Daughters are so well acquainted with my Hours of Exercise, that they never come into my Room to disturb me whilst I am ringing.

  • He must be well acquainted, however, with the navigation or he would not venture to bring his frigate in among these reefs.

  • They thus surmised that she was threading her way between reefs with which the pirates must have been well acquainted.

  • However, he now knows all that has happened, and he tells me that he is well acquainted with O'Harrall's history, and believes him capable of the most desperate acts of violence.

  • I know she has some very odd humours, which you are not so well acquainted with, as I am.

  • She is a lady of birth equal to my own, with whom, as you say, I am well acquainted, and have been so long.

  • However, what is early learned is long retained; and a hand that is well acquainted with a cudgel remembers its use as well as the back that bears the beating.

  • During the whole of the latter part of their journey the mountains had been rising up before them, and all the beautiful scenery of Athol, with which every English traveller is well acquainted, presented itself to Julia's sight.

  • Your master is well acquainted, I think, with my good cousin, Sir George.

  • As to this second conspiracy, the conspiracy with which Sallust and Cicero have made us so well acquainted, there is no sufficient ground for asserting that Cæsar was concerned in it.

  • It is possible that the world may have been wrong as to a period of Roman history with which it has thought itself to be well acquainted; but the world now has nothing to go by but the facts as they have come down to it.

  • He is as well acquainted as myself with the subject on which I speak.

  • The general dissatisfaction and discomfort so diffused itself, that the assembled footmen in the hall were as well acquainted with it as the company above.

  • He soon began to say nice things and make love to me, and we got so well acquainted that he'd leave his door open when I was off duty of an afternoon and would call me in for a chat.

  • One with whom I am well acquainted has an only son.

  • With this I was as well acquainted as himself; the question was, by what means he had obtained it?

  • This doubt was another wound given to my heart, with which she must have been so well acquainted.

  • The unfortunate event of this enterprize, you are, I conclude, as well acquainted with as myself.

  • But yet, to be sure, Ensign Northerton and she were very well acquainted together at our last quarters; that is the very right and truth of the matter.

  • Why should I confess, sir," says Sophia, "since it seems you are so well acquainted with my thoughts?

  • I did not specify the exception, as I knew you were so well acquainted with it.

  • Besides, they cannot afford so much novelty; they are bodies with which we are already so well acquainted.

  • We shall begin, however, by noticing those metals with which you profess to be so well acquainted.

  • This is a white milky glutinous fluid, which acquires consistence, and blackens in drying, in which state it forms the substance with which you are so well acquainted, under the name of gum-elastic.

  • For He is the Wise, well acquainted (with all things).

  • Y: But follow that which comes to thee by inspiration from thy Lord: for Allah is well acquainted with (all) that ye do.

  • And Allah has full knowledge and is well acquainted (with all things).

  • Not being as well acquainted in this settlement as he probably is in his own, he told it to a Jackson man, who rode to our camp and told us of it.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    music teacher; well administered; well assured; well born; well browned; well built; well calculated; well convinced; well doing; well drained; well filled; well founded; well informed; well knowing; well mixed; well mounted; well pleas; well seen; well skilled; well soaked; well stirred; well that; well together; well ventilated; well worth; well written