Under the Second Empire, many of Sainte-Beuve's earlier acquaintances, now dead or in retirement, were replaced by other writers: Gustave Flaubert, Ernest Renan, the Goncourt brothers, Prosper Mérimée, Ivan Turgenev, Matthew Arnold, and a large number of scholars, historians, and academicians.
"Change was an early acquaintance in my life," Foote said.
"Change was an early acquaintance in my life," he said.
They communicate with their eyes, as they did from their earliest acquaintance.
What blazes most brightly in the earliest acquaintance with grief is the lack of reprieve.
Beaton's own strenuous efforts would get him further ahead — and farther afield — than some of his early acquaintance might have bet.
This early acquaintance with Thoreau led Greif to believe philosophy to be "against everything, if it was corrupt, dubious, enervating, untrue to us, false to happiness".
An early acquaintance of Hitler, he joined the Nazi Party's paramilitary organization, the SA (Storm Troopers), in 1923, worked at various jobs after the failure of Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch that year, and rejoined the Nazi Party in 1928, becoming a member of the SS (the elite corps of the party).
The son of a short-order cook and a house cleaner who immigrated from Mexico 33 years ago, Mr. Padilla played Little League baseball to stay out of trouble as a boy and got an early acquaintance with volunteer work thanks to his mother.
