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  • Unacquainted neighbors, I was informed by a reliable source that we got our coffee at the same place each morning.

    Gilbert King: Mockingbird at 50: Thurgood Marshall and Atticus Finch Gilbert King 2010

  • Unacquainted neighbors, I was informed by a reliable source that we got our coffee at the same place each morning.

    Gilbert King: Mockingbird at 50: Thurgood Marshall and Atticus Finch 2010

  • Unacquainted with the application of De Toqueville's "tyranny of the majority" in our democracy, social conservatives reduced upholding equal protection and due process to overruling the "will of the people."

    Byron Williams: Is This the Year of the 14th Amendment? 2010

  • The Dread Empire, spanning from the highest peaks of the Dragon's Teeth to the endless desert lands of Hammad al Nakir, from besieged Kavelin to mighty Shinshan, the Empire Unacquainted with Defeat, with its fearless, masked soldiers, known as the Demon Guard...

    Books in the Mail (W/E 06/27/2009) RobB 2009

  • The Dread Empire, spanning from the highest peaks of the Dragon's Teeth to the endless desert lands of Hammad al Nakir, from besieged Kavelin to mighty Shinshan, the Empire Unacquainted with Defeat, with its fearless, masked soldiers, known as the Demon Guard...

    Archive 2009-06-01 RobB 2009

  • Unacquainted with the feminine indulgence which the world, by long prescription, grants to coquetry, its name was scarcely known to her; and she saw in its own native egotism the ungenerous desire to please, where she herself was indifferent, and anticipated from Sir Sedley reproach, if not contempt.

    Camilla 2008

  • Unacquainted with sin, he was all the more haunted by it, as by some unknown monster, and assiduous in confession, he picked to pieces his own infinitesimal failings, with the mortal penitence due to deadly sins.

    The Rose Rent Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1986

  • Unacquainted as she is with any kind of womanly work, what office will Krishna, the daughter of Drupada, perform?

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • Unacquainted with sorrow of every kind, he rides in the foremost of cars for making his journeys, and waited upon by the foremost of celestials, damsels, and possessed of puissance, he sports in joy like a celestial himself.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • Unacquainted with the true state of affairs, Dorothy's genuinely expressed interest in the Bridge Street girls merely added fuel to the fire.

    Jane Allen: Right Guard Edith Bancroft

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