Citations:acquaintances


 * 1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.
 * But among all my relations or acquaintances I could not yet pitch upon one to whom I durst commit the gross of my stock, that I might go away to the Brazils, and leave things safe behind me; and this greatly perplexed me.


 * 1851 — Herman Melville. Moby Dick.
 * Had any one of his old acquaintances on shore but half dreamed of what was lurking in him then, how soon would their aghast and righteous souls have wrenched the ship from such a fiendish man!