first acquaintance
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Those tears were my first acquaintance with the harsh truth of a baseball aphorism: The ball will always find you.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 15, 2023
“What a dignified and serious city!” exclaimed Friedrich Nietzsche on first acquaintance in the late 19th century.
From New York Times • May 10, 2017
“First Essay,” on first acquaintance, at least, seems a mild and modest work, hardly the stuff of grand designs.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2016
And he made his first acquaintance with Bulgaria’s most powerful man.
From Slate • Sep. 28, 2012
The family of Pauline at Paris became intimate with that of the Carons about the 109time that Beaumarchais made his first acquaintance with Paris du Verney.
From Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence by Kite, Elizabeth S.
