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Adam’s reckless indiscipline may have denied a winless team, who were acquitting themselves well against West Brom with 10 men, a point.

From The Guardian • Aug. 31, 2015

They were acquitting themselves rather adroitly, under the circumstances, thought Eben, though their assumption of innocence was, perhaps, a shade overdone.

From The Tyranny of Weakness by Stahr, Paul

The miners were acquitting themselves of their dangerous duties courageously and well under the able leadership of their brave captain, George Frederick von Schomberg, and the master miner, Andreas Baumann.

From The Young Carpenters of Freiberg A Tale of the Thirty Years' War by Anonymous

If all who are nominally "in fellow ship" were acquitting themselves thoroughly as men of God, what a very different condition of things we should be privileged to witness!

From The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III by Mackintosh, C. (Charles) H. (Henry)