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Example sentences for "familiar figure"

  • A great advocate practising in the Common-law Courts is, of course, still more certain to become a familiar figure.

  • His appearance was striking, and made him a familiar figure even to those who did not know him personally.

  • Hodder would have avoided the ever familiar figure of her son, Gordon, in the invariable black cutaway and checked trousers, but he was standing beside Mr. Parr.

  • As for Mr. Bentley, his was a familiar figure, and had been remarked in Dalton Street funerals before.

  • His eye was at once caught by the sight of a familiar figure.

  • He had not gone far, however, before he became aware of a familiar figure on horse-back, jogging slowly along ahead of him.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    also know; being bound; buttered gridiron; civilized warfare; constitutional amendment; cooking pots; court life; drink offerings for the; false impression; familiar example; familiar figure; familiar spirit; familiar spirits; familiar voice; familiarly known; fortnight before; good service; here speaking; more striking; need hardly; particular case; pick them; rose again from the; sais quoi; shot away; waited upon