Bobby Bonilla's closest acquaintances say they believe the Mets are trying to trade the struggling 36-year-old slugger.

The forest was by now Caius Blohm's closest acquaintance.

Was she crazy in her belief that she would never be allowed into the inner social circles of even Nicholas's closest Japanese acquaintances?

You can meet some of my closest acquaintances, and it will give them a chance to offer their congratulations en masse.

Perhaps I have owed to this employment and to hunting, when quite young, my closest acquaintance with Nature.

Bomanz considered the Monitor his closest acquaintance- but a friend, never.

"Some of my closest acquaintances look like slugs, Doctor, as you may recall."

Sandra, fat Eloise, a black girl named Delia-these came to be, if not friends, her closest acquaintances.

And dear Lord, did none of Slade's closest acquaintances recognize him after twenty hard years?

"Correct me if I have it wrong, but aren't some of your closest acquaintances criminals?"