Then a door opened somewhere ahead; a white haze of light filtered through, and I floated slowly into a room, that seemed strangely familiar.

There seemed to her to be something vaguely familiar about him, though wherein it lay she could not have told.

She looked round, and Ida saw distinctly, and for the first time, though fashionable London was tolerably familiar with it now, the beautiful face of Maude Falconer.

There was something so very stern and uncompromising about them, and something, too, oddly, subtly, familiar, that yet just eluded him.

We toiled on all the next day over a road that was painfully familiar to most of us, and in the evening came to Christopher Gist's plantation.

" The moment I read the last name something curiously familiar about it suddenly struck me.

From the importance of the transactions, and the natural attention directed to them, both North and South, they are doubtless familiar to all who will read these pages.

This third stock, but dimly familiar if familiar at all, is in no practical sense yours.

There are scarcely any of the ceremonies of a lady's toilette more a mystery to one sex than the other, and men and their wives, who scarcely eat at the same table, are in this respect grossly familiar.

Like most comely women of intelligence Sylvia was intimately familiar with every phase of her own looks, and she knew down to the last blood-corpuscle that she had never looked better.

Nor any vnproportion'd thought his Act: Be thou familiar; but by no meanes vulgar: The friends thou hast, and their adoption tride,

[Footnote 2: "In these meetings," says Whitelock, "laying aside his greatness, he would be exceedingly familiar with us, and, by way of diversion, would make verses with us, and every one must try his fancy.

I am personally familiar with the conditions in Syria and Armenia and I can only suppose that if the report, which "The Times" has published is correct, you have thrown to one side, your moral responsibilities and allied yourself with one of the prevailing anarchies.

And so strangely crumpled, and so strange the scenta scent hauntingly familiar, yet baffling in its relation to gowns.

In winter they fly in flocks, and are so little familiar with the sight of man, that they are easily shot, and even snared.

The match light glinted on an oily, olive skin, and so much of the profile as he could see was faintly familiar.

The inferior man knows not the ordinances of Heaven and therefore reveres them not, is unduly familiar in the presence of great men, and scoffs at the words of sages.

These two statements are wonderfully familiar to me, indeed they have been confided to me in precisely the same words by at least a score of women, young and not so young, who met the compelling man.

It is the work of a writer intelligently familiar with the Greek and Roman classics, and it thus stands beside Elyot's Governour, which appeared two years before, as one of the earliest illustrations of the influence of the Renaissance on our vernacular literature.

They were members of Brant's own tribe, as I knew from the language, with which I was reasonably familiar, and after a few moments it was possible to gather from the conversation that St. Leger had interfered in some way with their plans, or thwarted their desires.

Fluttering with alarm, the mother of Eustace approached me as one presumably familiar with the power of the Lansdales to work disaster in a peaceful and orderly family.

It was horribly familiar to him.

He has dreadfully familiar ways and catches hold of my arm in public, making us both perfectly ridiculous.

P.P. INTRODUCTIONGENERAL A most distinctive class of ancient Irish literature, and probably the class that is least popularly familiar, is the hagiographical.

I thought of what I heard every day on the canalthat all women were alike; that they existed only for that sort of companionship with men with which my eyes were so ignorantly familiar; that all their protestations and refusals were for effect only; that a man need only to be a man, to know what he wanted, and conquer it.