During these years he saved a competence and gained a thorough acquaintance with the theory and practice of finance.

His letter published in Kirchheim's Karme Shomeron shows his thorough acquaintance with Samaritan.

Such a study would not be enough for a thorough acquaintance, of course.

Moreover, he possessed tact and a thorough acquaintance with the forms of the House of Commons.

In this way he gained a thorough acquaintance with the resources of the old masters, resources which he later put to use in his works through a modern idiom.

This is especially obvious in Matter and Memory, where he showed a thorough acquaintance with the extensive pathological investigations which had been carried out during the period.

The notes and the accompanying life of Virgil manifest a thorough acquaintance with both poem and poet.

We made our first thorough acquaintance with the Kovalenkos at the headmaster's name-day party.

He had a thorough acquaintance with the gayest and most disreputable sides of Parisian life, and left a number of more or less witty stories dealing with it.

Aside from wanting me to gain a thorough acquaintance with the music, my father had a particular reason for giving me this bountiful present.