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1  I have been acquainted with you by character many years.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
2  I got more acquainted with him last Monday than ever I did before.
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3  You must stay to be acquainted with Mrs Wallis, the beautiful Mrs Wallis.
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4  They were gradually acquainted, and when acquainted, rapidly and deeply in love.
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5  Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.
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6  I have been a good deal acquainted with him," replied Mrs Smith, gravely, "but it seems worn out now.
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7  Though they had now been acquainted a month, she could not be satisfied that she really knew his character.
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8  This friend, and Sir Walter, did not marry, whatever might have been anticipated on that head by their acquaintance.
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9  However, I have determined; I think I am right; I think you ought to be made acquainted with Mr Elliot's real character.
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10  He had been introduced to Sir Walter and your sister before I was acquainted with him, but I heard him speak of them for ever.
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11  Colonel Wallis had known Mr Elliot long, had been well acquainted also with his wife, had perfectly understood the whole story.
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12  Mr Elliot had attempted no apology, and shewn himself as unsolicitous of being longer noticed by the family, as Sir Walter considered him unworthy of it: all acquaintance between them had ceased.
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13  Anne knew that Lady Russell must be suffering some pain in understanding and relinquishing Mr Elliot, and be making some struggles to become truly acquainted with, and do justice to Captain Wentworth.
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14  I am glad you find Mr Elliot so agreeable, and wish I could be acquainted with him too; but I have my usual luck: I am always out of the way when any thing desirable is going on; always the last of my family to be noticed.
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15  Mrs Clay," said she, warmly, "never forgets who she is; and as I am rather better acquainted with her sentiments than you can be, I can assure you, that upon the subject of marriage they are particularly nice, and that she reprobates all inequality of condition and rank more strongly than most people.
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16  A name that I am so very well acquainted with; knew the gentleman so well by sight; seen him a hundred times; came to consult me once, I remember, about a trespass of one of his neighbours; farmer's man breaking into his orchard; wall torn down; apples stolen; caught in the fact; and afterwards, contrary to my judgement, submitted to an amicable compromise.
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17  Herself the widow of only a knight, she gave the dignity of a baronet all its due; and Sir Walter, independent of his claims as an old acquaintance, an attentive neighbour, an obliging landlord, the husband of her very dear friend, the father of Anne and her sisters, was, as being Sir Walter, in her apprehension, entitled to a great deal of compassion and consideration under his present difficulties.
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