Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the neighbours among whom, our doctor followed his profession.
It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.
But all of my efforts served only to make me better acquainted with the difficulty, which in itself was something.
As you become acquainted with a character you are creating, you add parts of yourself that are pertinent to that character.
You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since-on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets. You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with.
No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross.
I became intimately acquainted with the Bible only as a theological student.
And you are entirely free from head-ache? That is good -- good -- considering it is the first spring you have been free from it since we were acquainted. I am afraid you will get so well, and fat, and young, as to be wanting to marry again.
It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with.
A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
I was just getting acquainted with the wood. I wanted to see if it was maple or pine.
Titles are valuable; they make us acquainted with many persons who otherwise would be lost among the rubbish.
He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
People are becoming more intimately acquainted with people who are different than them - it's not so unusual anymore.
When he tells us about his Father, we distrust him. When he shows us his Home, we turn away, but when he confides to us that he is acquainted with grief, we listen, for that also is an acquaintance of our own.
In the name of Jesus Christ, who was never in a hurry, we pray, O God, that You will slow us down, for we know that we live too fast. With all of eternity before us, make us take time to live---time to get acquainted with You, time to enjoy Your blessings, and time to know each other.
Everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize it as a conspicuous failure.
Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men die because they cannot help it.
When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire.