There was something strangely familiar in her look that reminded Esther of her godmother.
The name they bore, "Captain Hawdon," was familiar enough to the money-lender.
The turnkey took him up the old familiar staircase and into the old familiar room in which he had so often been.
There was something strangely familiar to Pip in his face, but at first he did not recognize him.
It had started out badly when she opened her eyes and found herself staring at a familiar blue ceiling.
But much of these is occupied withfamiliar letters, and much more with merely miscellaneous writing.
Besides this the old familiar and homely personages are mixed up with a very strange set of abstractions in the shape of the seven deadly sins.
The greater part of the first six speeches are of a more antique cast than Montaigne; and though the speech of D'Aubray exhibits a more elaborate and lessfamiliar style, it too is definitely plain and popular in manner.
The legend, familiar probably to most readers, is that Vertot required documents for his account of a certain military operation.
I filled the mornings by making calls, and it was when I set out to pay my respects and thanks to Minister Bar for my amnesty that I trod the familiar streets of Dresden again.
My first glance at my guest, as he landed at the familiar harbour of Rorschach, filled me at once with anxiety for his health, for it revealed but too plainly his tendency to consumption.
The wonderfully clear air decided me to try the long and circuitous path through the familiar haunts of the Sihlthal to Wesendonck's estate.
Klindworth showed a keen and lasting interest in me, which even prompted him to give me a letter of recommendation, to Prince Metternich, with whose father he said he had been on veryfamiliar terms.
In Geneva I put up first at the familiar old Hotel de l'Ecu de Geneve, which called up various reminiscences to my mind.
On looking afresh into my Nibelungen poem I recognised with surprise that the very things that now so embarrassed me theoretically had long been familiar to me in my own poetical conception.
One of the performances interested me particularly because it consisted of a subtly connected conglomeration of the most familiar tales, played straight through, with no break at the end of the acts.
Thus I frequently spent the evenings in familiar intercourse with my amiable hosts, and was even seduced into trying to instruct them about Schopenhauer.
Leaving the car alongside the road, the boys followed after their guide, who led them directly over to where the battery had its tents, Immediately Hugh and his two chums began to recognize familiar faces.
These seemed to have a familiar look to the Oakvale scouts, because they had many times handled the dull-finished modern field-pieces, doubtless envious of the luck of those whom they chanced to know as members of the company.
As you are so perfectlyfamiliar with the doings, etc.
Your name has for very long been familiar to me, and I have heard of your zealous exertions in the cause of Natural History.
Over fifty thousand persons, rich and poor, maimed soldiers and working people, passed in one by one to look upon the familiar face.
The town of Saintes must have become familiar with that promise.
This familiar law he applied at the South Pass of the Mississippi River, where the waters, though deep above, escaped from the banks into the Gulf, and spread sediment far and wide.
He had not learned, what most authors arefamiliar with, the heart sickness from first rejected manuscripts.
Would other people live in the old house, and sit under the low oak ceilings in the homely familiar rooms?
The wife's worst remorse when she stands without the threshold of the home she may never enter more is not equal to the agony of the husband who closes the portal on that familiar and entreating face.
But how terribly that narrow pathway had widened out into the broad highroad of sin, and how swift the footsteps had become upon the now familiar way!
He turned the letter over and examined the seal, which bore his friend's familiar crest.
The sibilant French syllables hiss through her teeth as she utters them, and seem better fitted to her mood and to herself than the familiar English she has spoken hitherto.
My lady looked upon these familiar objects with scornful hatred flaming in her blue eyes.
Alicia, who was never familiarwith her servants, withdrew in disgust at my lady's frivolity.
He always went loaded with toys and sweetmeats to give to the child; but, for all this, Georgey would not become very familiar with his papa, and the young man's heart sickened as he began to fancy that even his child was lost to him.
They were not in his friend's familiar hand, and yet they purported to be written by him and were signed with his initials.
Sir Michael has no fancy to return to the familiar dwelling-place in which he once dreamed a brief dream of impossible happiness.
Robert Audley sighed as he sat down to the familiar meal, remembering his uncle's cook with a fond, regretful sorrow.
His eyes went incuriously over the familiar crowd to the little forest of flag-foliaged masts that told where lay the ships in the bay below the town.
His copy of the Caledonian Pocket Companion (the largest collection of Scottish music), which copy still exists with pencil notes in his handwriting, proves that he was familiar with the whole contents.
These examples of his power of exact, vigorous, or delicate rendering of familiar sights and sounds may be supplemented with a few from other poems.
The figure of Death is an amazingly graphic creation, with its mixture of weirdness and familiar humor; while the attack on Hornbook is managed with consummate skill.
Not only do his natural descriptions deal with the aspects familiar to him in his ordinary surroundings, but they are for the most part treated in relation to life.
Any reader familiar with Gavin Douglas's description of a Scottish winter in his Prologue to the twelfth book of the Æneid will be struck by the resemblance to this passage both in subject and manner.
Taking up the exhaust end of the turbine, we have a much more striking departure from the conditions familiar in the reciprocating engine.
Builders' Foundation Plans Incomplete It is impractical for the manufacturers to make complete foundation drawings, as they are notfamiliar with the lay-out of pipes and the relative position of other apparatus in the station.
Many of these are familiar to most readers, but have gained an additional interest by reason of their connection with the poet's writings.
I think her oldfamiliar is asleep;" and in "2 Henry VI.
Familiar spirits[71] attending on magicians and witches were always impatient of confinement.
Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd"-- it being a common superstition that the form most generally assumed by the familiar spirits of witches was the cat.
Putting a person in the stocks, too, was an exhibition familiar to the ancient stage.
A familiar expression among sportsmen for a hare is "Wat," so called, perhaps, from its long ears or wattles.
Most readers, too, are familiar with that famous passage in "Macbeth" (i.
Thus it appears, that Christians everywhere were familiar with contempt and indigence, so much so, that the apostle would dissuade such as had no families from assuming the responsibilities of the conjugal relation!
I feel it impossible, indeed, to describe the scene, familiar as it was to me.
But Mona had herself well in hand now, and she made no sign that the name was a familiar one to her.
The remainder of the day was spent in packing her trunk and looking her last upon the familiar objects of the home that had always been so dear to her.
Then of course New York is very familiar to you," he remarked.
No, I should not care to dance to-night," Mona returned, and then she became conscious that a familiar form was approaching the spot where they stood.
I did not recognize her; and yet I thought there was somethingfamiliar about her.
Harold liked black pumas, on the whole, as well as any animal we were familiar with.
Strangers might have been puzzled to classify it; to me, an explorer from earliest years, the place was familiar enough.
It stretched away unbroken on every side of us, this mysterious soft garment under which our familiar world had so suddenly hidden itself.
Yes, there it was, sure enough, with the familiar marks on its bottom bar made by our feet when we swung on it "Oh, but wait a minute!
Among them the Name was a daily familiar word; his story was a part of the music to which they swung, himself was their fellow and their mate and comrade.
And then--but every boy has rehearsed thisfamiliar piece a score of times.
Was this the same grass, could these be the same familiar flower-beds, alleys, clumps of verdure, patches of sward?
It must be, I supposed, because she was less familiar with one's faulty, tattered past.
Isaac said ’twa’n’t becomin’ in the President of the United States to be so familiar with common soldiers, he ought to keep among the generals and members of the administration.
He was like one of us, but he wa’n’t no man to be over familiar with.
Everybody is familiar with the details of that infamy, which is inexplicable on any other ground than partial insanity.
It should be remarked, however, that before his diplomatic career began, Franklin had become exceptionally familiar with the affairs of the Colonies.
He was so beastly familiar that I took out my glass, and I got him into a cafe for fear some one would see me with him.
The colours obtained by the use of madder are among the fastest of dyes, the brilliant "Turkey red" being one of the most familiar shades.
It is a familiar doctrine of modern science that energy, like matter, is indestructible.
Furthermore, the familiar flavour and scent of the vanilla bean, which is due to a crystalline substance known as vanillin, can be obtained from coal-tar without the use of the plant.
The use of these dyes as stains for sections of animal and vegetable tissue has long been familiar to microscopists.
To stand by the machine which turns out the familiar grape-basket, ready to fill with the fruit, and then to watch the housemaid bending over some piece of work, is to realize the difference.
In any suburban village made familiar by the trolley how many houses are the same as five years ago?
The familiar sensation of an abraded shin recalled his dazed faculties.
Familiar with this tranquilizing chant in moments of imminent peril, these raw soldiers of less than a year's training yielded themselves to the spell, executing its mandates with the composure and precision of veterans.
He thought his appearance familiar and had at first no doubt of having given him the pass which had satisfied the sentinel.
The familiar milk wagon was already astir in the streets; the baker's man would soon come upon the scene; the newspaper carrier was abroad in the land.
Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is to be received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him.
The professional hunter was still a familiar figure, and among his trophies were heads and pelts of the larger kinds of game.
Possibly his impressionable mind was half conscious of something familiar in its shambling, awkward gait.
Shifting his position, his eyes fell upon some outbuildings which had an oddly familiar appearance, as if he had dreamed of them.
Then there is an indescribable sound-- the sound of an impact that shakes the earth, and these men, familiar with death in its most awful aspects, turn sick.
His occasional failures to accomplish some simple and ordinary act filled him with astonishment, like that of a drunken man who wonders at the suspension of familiar natural laws.
But that was as far as possible from fear; he was a brave man, somewhat familiar with the aspect of rifles from that point of view, and of cannon too.
At the headquarters of the army and in the camps of the troops from his State he was a familiar figure, attended by the several members of his personal staff, showily horsed, faultlessly betailored and bravely silk-hatted.
Seven years afterward these two men sat upon a bench in Madison Square, New York, in familiar conversation.
The air of confidence with which he now strode along showed that he was on familiar ground; he had recovered his bearings.
We praise Thee that our visions of the Divinest rise far beyond the borders of our known and familiar fields, that the resources of our unwearied life are in those mysterious regions that we have not explored.
But the second unit of human life, the family, is just as truly there in the familiar relation of husband and wife and the sacred, eternal mystery of motherhood.
A less familiar animal is a large fox (canis jubatus), red in skin and not unlike a hyena in both appearance and habits, for it feeds on carrion.
Greek history and literature were almost unknown in the Middle Ages, and even after the Renaissance they remained much less familiar than Latin.
The planting of settlements was familiar to both Greece and Rome.
Eastward is the Puerto Militar, the great naval harbour, and some miles to the west lies the Civil Port, Bahia Blanca proper, which will soon be as familiar a name as Liverpool or Rotterdam.
I therefore recommended Herr Giebert to Professor Pettenkofer, who willingly made him familiar with every detail of the process.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "familiar" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
