In this way he gained an extensive and accurate acquaintance with continental rural economy, of which he made excellent use in studying parallel phenomena at home.

Our navigators did not stay at this place without gaining an extensive acquaintance with the productions of the country and the manners and customs of the inhabitants.

An extensive acquaintance of young men told her that the topic of conversation was now due to be changed.

She has an extensive acquaintance at Bath among appalling old gentlemen with thin legs and nankeen trousers, and is of high standing in that dreary city.

A professor at Kraków University, he was an erudite man whose Dialectic gives evidence of extensive acquaintance with new currents and authors, but he was more erudite than independent as a thinker.

This residence in Washington as a bureau officer of high rank gave him an extensive acquaintance, and he became one of the most popular men in the capital.

Their stilted rhetoric hinders their address, but they speak towards an extensive acquaintance with ancient poetry.

For a young woman to think that she has an extensive acquaintance, signifies that she will be the possessor of vast interests, and her love will be worthy the winning.

"Dogs don't," said Pat knowingly, out of her extensive acquaintance of three dogs.

His brother William, who by this time held the Camden professorship of ancient history, and enjoyed an extensive acquaintance with men of eminence in London, was in a position materially to advance his interests.