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1. This doctrine, like most other doctrines which are confidently asserted by any considerable number of people, was, and still continues to be, most implicitly believed by a much greater number: by almost all those who are either unacquainted with the woollen trade, or who have not made particular inquiries
2. John Meredith drank from his slender white hand, whose grip of steel always surprised people who were unacquainted with it, and then sat down on the maple seat
3. 10 On account of a Hebrew woman did Shechem and Hamor his father, and all the inhabitants of their city, do that with which they had been unacquainted and which their ancestors never commanded them, where then will you fly or where conceal your shame, all your days before your brothers, the inhabitants of the land of Canaane
4. 79 And Joseph answered her and said, note the God of the whole Earth is able to deliver me from all that you can do to me, for he opens the eyes of the blind, and loosens those who are bound, and preserves all strangers who are unacquainted with the land
5. 10 On account of a Hebrew woman did Shechem and Hamor his father and all the inhabitants of their city do that with which they had been unacquainted and which their ancestors never commanded them where then will you fly or where conceal your shame all your days before your brothers the inhabitants of the land of Canaane
6. 79 And Joseph answered her and said note the God of the whole Earth is able to deliver me from all that you can do to me for he opens the eyes of the blind and loosens those who are bound and preserves all strangers who are unacquainted with the land
7. In Ottumwa, Iowa, it is illegal for any man, within the corporate city limits, to wink at any female with whom he is unacquainted
8. "_Quoi? Certainement pas_," said Ingeborg, who in spite of her prize for French was unacquainted with the refinements of that language
9. were before unacquainted withal; concerning which I
10. Given conflicting stories, whose word would you, a reader unacquainted with the corrections system, trust more? Me-the-convict, or a guard? And if either of us fucks up bad enough to land under their jurisdiction again, by what metrics of The World does a 12 cents/hour convict win against someone with a steady paycheck and some actual merit in a pissing contest measured by money and status?
11. The man in the born-rich suit now held me in contempt, which was nothing I was unacquainted with
12. While one external cause, and that a reference to his long lingering agony, would always--as on the trial--evoke this condition from the depths of his soul, it was also in its nature to arise of itself, and to draw a gloom over him, as incomprehensible to those unacquainted with his story as if they had seen the shadow of the actual Bastille thrown upon him by a summer sun, when the substance was three hundred miles away
13. Most of them were almost totally unacquainted with the contents of the book itself
14. Pocket, yet it always appeared to me that by far the best part of the house to have boarded in would have been the kitchen,—always supposing the boarder capable of self-defence, for, before I had been there a week, a neighboring lady with whom the family were personally unacquainted, wrote in to say that she had seen Millers slapping the baby
15. Pearl, therefore, so large were the attainments of her three years' lifetime, could have borne a fair examination in the New England Primer, or the first column of the Westminster Catechisms, although unacquainted with the outward form of either of those celebrated works
16. 'But I understood you to say, Lady Celia, that you were unacquainted with him
17. Timothy was a wiry old laborer, of a type lingering in those times—who had his savings in a stocking-foot, lived in a lone cottage, and was not to be wrought on by any oratory, having as little of the feudal spirit, and believing as little, as if he had not been totally unacquainted with the Age of Reason and the Rights of Man
18. For his own part, he is unacquainted with the new Paris, and he writes with the old Paris before his eyes in an illusion which is precious to him
19. It was his nature to be communicative; he liked to open to a mind unacquainted with the world glimpses of its scenes and ways (I do not mean its corrupt scenes and wicked ways, but such as derived their interest from the great scale on which they were acted, the strange novelty by which they were characterised); and I had a keen delight in receiving the new ideas he offered, in imagining the new pictures he portrayed, and following him in thought through the new regions he disclosed, never startled or troubled by one noxious allusion
20. Then it was that the lust of the chase would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals
21. Safie nursed her with the most devoted affection, but the poor girl died, and the Arabian was left alone, unacquainted with the language of the country and utterly ignorant of the customs of the world
22. But I was perfectly unacquainted with towns and large assemblages of men
23. Officers accustomed to command, and unacquainted with want, were in the most grievous plight of all—every one shunned them to avoid rendering them any service
24. It is well known to your committee, and to the whole nation, that the far greater part of the officers were compelled by hard necessity to dispose of their commutation certificates at prices infinitely below their nominal amount; that this did not proceed from want of patriotism, of which they had beforehand given proofs most unequivocal, or of want of confidence in their Government; but that, after having spent the vigor of their manhood in the service of their country, they returned to the walks of civil life, (many of them maimed, and scarcely able to halt along,) ignorant of what was passing or likely to pass in the councils of their country; the griping hand of poverty bore hard upon them; and, unacquainted as they necessarily were with civil affairs, they fell an easy prey to the wiles of the artful and insidious speculator, who was lying in wait to fatten upon their hard earnings
25. All writers upon the subject have so considered it; and, sir, if one party can make a contract with another, without the knowledge, consent, or approbation of the other, it is a new discovery, with which, as yet, I am unacquainted
26. " From their appellation, "barrens," the person unacquainted with them is not to suppose them thus called from their sterility, because most of them are quite the reverse
27. I give you these particulars, not because I think they contain any thing new to you, in principle, but because I may have hit upon some details with which you were unacquainted
28. It is perfectly safe, as nothing can fall from it; and its novel appearance, in a wick's keeping red hot for such a length of time, is very surprising to persons unacquainted with its nature
29. Another, a younger man, likewise implicated in a murder last Fourth of July, and committed to jail for a time, the particulars of whose case I am unacquainted with, cried out in open congregation, "Pray for me, I am the vilest sinner that ever lived," and dropped upon his knees in sore agony of body and soul to join in prayer with the Christians present