quaintance

And I beg of you, Sir, to allow me to claim your further ac-quaintance.

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

They were very officious to scrape ac — quaintance with them.

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

I have one encouragement, since my happy ac-quaintance with Miss Byron, to think that the age is not entirely lost to a sense of virtue and goodness.

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

He believes her in a consumption; and has brought a physician of his intimate ac-quaintance to visit her: but she, and we all are con vinced, that medicine will not reach her case: and she affected to be startled at his supposing she was in so bad a way, on purpose, as she owned, to avoid his kind importunity to take advice in a malady that nothing but time and patience can cure.

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

Fleta had cured that illness, which was the real basis of the unusual friendship; harpies generally had no interest in human or in unicorn ac - quaintance.

Robot Adept Anthony, Piers 1988

"I's pleased to make your -quaintance, suh, " Israel said.

The Guns Of The South Turtledove, Harry 1960

She made one of her humble courtesies, and said: "I'm pleased to see you, sir; it's de first time I've hed de pleasure makin 'yo' 'quaintance since you was' dopted into my fam'bly."

Harriet, the Moses of Her People

Don 'look roun' at me, 'cause _I_ ain 'got no' quaintance wif you.

Short Stories of Various Types Various

'Dar's a' ooman heah; a wite 'ooman, dat am' ticler anxyus fur de honor of Mister Mulock's 'quaintance.

The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

Beg pawdon, dear boy, f'not 'bsherving you b'fore. Mos' happy to renew zhe 'quaintance so auspishously begun' saffer-noon.

Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life Lemuel Ely Quigg