Washington accepted, writing to Braddock's principal aide, Captain Robert Orme, "I wish for nothing more earnestly, than to attain a small degree of knowledge in the Military Art", and that the position would provide him "a good opportunity... of forming an acquaintance which may be serviceable hereafter, if I can find it worth while pushing my Fortune in the Military way".
During her trial she attempted unsuccessfully to evoke sympathy by blaming Strong, the father of her child, for leading her astray: "I formed an intimate acquaintance with one who should have protected me and was led away by evil associates and bad companions".
It was already to some degree familiar to them from the work of the western Greeks in Italy and Sicily, and the Romans formed a closer acquaintance with it in the court of Alexandria and from the profits of their diplomacy and warfare.
In one of his most famous aphorisms he asks: "When I am playing with my cat, how do I know she is not playing with me?" And he tells how animals themselves form "a certain acquaintance with one another" and greet each other "with joy and demonstrations of goodwill".
There are thoughtful folks among us like Joshua Foa Dienstag, UCLA professor of political science, who says we should embrace, or at least, form an acquaintance with the alternative to positive thinking -- PESSIMISM!
They form a network of acquaintances, which he defines as people who share a working trust even though they are not good friends.
Over objections from prosecutors, Mr. Daschle was also asked whether he had formed an opinion about Mr. Janklow's truthfulness over their 30 years of acquaintance.
Start with a fiend, stranger, acquaintance; then form a group to continue the conversation.
Vincent Davis, convicted in 1725 of murdering his wife, said he would rather be "hang'd in Chains" than "anatomiz'd", and to that effect had "sent many Letters to all his former Friends and Acquaintance to form a Company, and prevent the Surgeons in their Designs upon his Body".
During the following four years at sea, Shackleton learned his trade, visiting the far corners of the earth and forming acquaintances with a variety of people from many walks of life, learning to be at home with all kinds of men.
