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Acquainted in sentence

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Whatever the case, Chinese are well acquainted with Americans’ feelings of indignation mixed with powerlessness.
But the trip is about more than getting acquainted.
For years, every person acquainted with the ethnic tensions and brutality of President Milosovic’s rule in Kosovo knew that the situation was becoming increasingly dangerous.
A few years ago, the editors of a Beijing-based weekly with which I am acquainted were deadlocked over which article to put on their front page.
Of course, the Johnson team thinks it is appealing to a public that, for reasons for which I and others must take at least some responsibility, is not fully acquainted with the facts about what UK development aid can achieve.
And, well acquainted with the power of television, he reversed himself and opposes a congressional appearance by Mueller.
She remembered not herself only, but all the women with whom she was intimate or acquainted: thought of them as they had been at that most solemn moment of their lives when, like Kitty, they had stood beneath the nuptial crown with love, hope and fear in their hearts, renouncing the past and entering upon the mystic future.
All the traits of character, with which she became better and better acquainted, seemed inexpressibly delightful.
'It was in Soden we met, but we were not acquainted,' she said.
Although Karenin had more than once told Serezha that every Christian ought to be well acquainted with Bible history, he often in Old Testament history had to consult the book, and Serezha noticed this.
Vronsky was examining her son's photos, which she had forgotten on the table, and did not hurry to look at her.'We are acquainted,' she said, placing her little hand in the enormous hand of the embarrassed Yashvin, whose confusion did not seem to accord with his huge figure and rough face.
'We have been acquainted since last year's races...Let me have them,' she added, with a rapid movement taking from Vronsky the photos he was looking at, and glancing at him impressively with glistening eyes.
Vronsky knew them and knew that Anna had been acquainted with them.
'Are you acquainted with Anna Arkadyevna?'Veslovsky asked her.
She was acquainted with Sviyazhsky too.
Sviyazhsky appreciated everything like one who is acquainted with all the newest improvements.
In that room, seated in arm-chairs, were the Countess's two daughters and a Moscow Colonel with whom Levin was acquainted.
'You know, he is not acquainted with Anna,' said Oblonsky to Vronsky.
It is as well that you should be acquainted with the Marechale's style; here are four letters in her hand.'
It appears that he knows your father, and is intimately acquainted with yourself, but this does not draw you towards him.
Acquainted with all the passes of the hills, and indefatigable in the discharge of his duty, the trooper had, with much trouble and toil, succeeded in effecting his object.
Everything here looked propitious, and he acquainted the surgeon that another patient waited his skill in the room below.
The surgeon, who was well acquainted with these views of his patient, beheld him, as he cavalierly turned his back on Mason and himself, with a commiserating contempt, replaced in their leathern repository the phials he had exhibited, with a species of care that was allied to veneration, gave the saw, as he concluded, a whirl of triumph, and departed, without condescending to notice the compliment of the trooper.
As reflux was a disorder with which Katy was not acquainted, she thought it prudent to be silent; yet burning with curiosity to know the meaning of certain portentous lights to which the other so often alluded, she ventured to ask,-"If them lights he spoke of were what was called northern lights in these parts?"
Further conversation was interrupted by Miss Peyton, who, advancing, acquainted them that they had been invited to grace the nuptials of her eldest niece and Colonel Wellmere.
The black turned in quiet submission to the surgeon, who commenced as follows:-"Caesar, your mistress has already acquainted you with the important event about to be solemnized within this habitation; but a cincture or ring is wanting to encircle the finger of the bride; a custom derived from the ancients, and which has been continued in the marriage forms of several branches of the Christian church, and which is even, by a species of typical wedlock, used in the installation of prelates, as you doubtless understand."
More than once she suggested to her companion, that, as the fighting seemed to be over, the proper time for plunder had arrived, but the veteran acquainted her with his orders, and remained inflexible and immovable; until the washerwoman, observing Lawton come round the wing of the building with Sarah, ventured amongst the warriors.
"I am so little acquainted, sir, with the rebel uniform, that I really was unable to distinguish, whether those men, whom you say are your own, did or did not belong to the gang of marauders."
"I suppose, by this time, my love, that you are well acquainted with the maneuvers of a regiment," said Miss Peyton.
Acquainted with every step that led through the mountains, and possessed of sinews inured to toil, Birch led the way, with the lengthened strides that were peculiar to the man and his profession; his pack alone was wanting to finish the appearance of his ordinary business air.
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