unacquainted with city ways. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
"I presume there are, but I am unacquainted with them.". From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Jones' Picnic] Reference
They were unacquainted with the longings of my poor soul. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
Do not use technical terms with those unacquainted with science or art. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
The country was covered with snow, and I was unacquainted with the road. From Wordnik.com. [Stories to Read or Tell from Fairy Tales and Folklore] Reference
We visited a number of plantations with which the general was unacquainted. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
With the ability of the remaining members of his troupe he was comparatively unacquainted. From Wordnik.com. [A Pirate of Parts] Reference
To add to the difficulty, the officers and men were entirely unacquainted with one another. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
The red has not, however, been employed as such, and we are unacquainted with its habitudes. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
He ran about the canoe so fearlessly that I think he must have been unacquainted with mankind. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference
If unacquainted with the woman a man is to escort to dinner, he should seek an introduction from the hostess. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Good Manners; a Guide to Polite Usage for All Social Functions] Reference
The schooner drew too much water to allow a further ascent, and, moreover, I was unacquainted with the river. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Thus the innocent Amaranthé, who was unacquainted with the name of coquetry, soon grew expert in the practice. From Wordnik.com. [The Flower Basket A Fairy Tale] Reference
Africa, and being unacquainted in Sant 'Iago, to cross the island towards the capital, in search of a consignee. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Probably the three had been unacquainted before their bullying alliance to deprive the smaller man of his place. From Wordnik.com. [Mercenary] Reference
Many of our readers, who are unacquainted with Eastern life, may suppose that we colour our picture too strongly. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
To any one unacquainted with foreign ways, a complete rupture of international peace and relations seemed imminent. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
Her innocent mind was unacquainted with the failings, that the fairy had stated as being usually attendant on beauty. From Wordnik.com. [The Flower Basket A Fairy Tale] Reference
The Greeks, in the heroic ages, as appears from the whole history of their conduct, were totally unacquainted with delicacy. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference
Many of them however are of rude workmanship and might have been fashioned by some of the tribe unacquainted with pipe-making. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
If you should be unacquainted with some of your business details, you must trust to others, and may in consequence be deceived. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
I was never more surprised, and assured the Count that I was unacquainted with the cathedral buildings of Europe, and I believed. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.] Reference
Only those who are unacquainted with the larger influences can place their sole reliance on the weapons used in physical warfare. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
Climbing out of the moat, he found himself in the company of Count Rochefort, and of two other gentlemen with whom he was unacquainted. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference
While unacquainted with the advantages of pasturage and agriculture, a greater extent of hunting lands are requisite for their subsistence. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
Since entering the house he had seen a side of human nature with which he was formerly unacquainted -- the brave charity of the poor in their misery. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Child 1894] Reference
It took but a little probing by this smooth fellow to get from Austin all his story; for the boy was entirely unacquainted with the ways of the world. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Hill House] Reference
She knew the bonnet and arrangement of hair were becoming, but she felt unacquainted with them, and wished for her own modest braids and plain bonnet. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
A powerful desire possessed him to shake hands with his new acquaintance, but he did not risk it, being unacquainted with the proper etiquette of the benches. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Affairs] Reference
To speak of the latter would be quite superfluous, few, if any, are unacquainted with the wildness and surpassing beauty of the most admired spot in North Wales. From Wordnik.com. [The "Ladies of Llangollen" as Sketched by Many Hands; with Notices of Other Objects of Interest in "That Sweetest of Vales"] Reference
Fairholt makes a mistake in speaking of the planter as re-setting the suckers, and his statement shows him to be entirely unacquainted with the habits of the plant. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
Experts have assured me that they are actually neither of silk nor linen! but of some material -- animal rather than vegetable -- with which they are wholly unacquainted. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
Our oldest farmers were not unacquainted with it in their earliest days, when it appeared among their farms without any deviation from the phaenomena which it now exhibits. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
The stranger, who was a native of some inland town, and utterly unacquainted with Cornwall and its ways, had reached the brink of the tide just as a "landing" was coming off. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
Panacea, for those unacquainted with Manchester's nightlife, is the establishment favoured by North-west footballers, the nouveaux riches, assorted wannabes and never-will-bes. From Wordnik.com. [Wayne Rooney must put World Cup behind him as he kicks off his season] Reference
He was also quite unused to travelling, and was so unacquainted with the map of his native State that he could not have pointed out the direction in which the town of Hampton lay. From Wordnik.com. [From Slave to College President Being the Life Story of Booker T. Washington] Reference
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