Familiarity, akinness, is the basis of attraction and affection.

Such familiarity is a soul-killing experience, and great will be the excuse for some of those sons of religious parents who have gone further toward hell than many born and bred thieves and sinners.

But he soon found that so far from being a help, his familiarity with the snow-shoe was a great hindrance.

If the familiarity sometimes became a nuisance, it was a wholesome nuisance, and relic of a simpler time gone by.

Perfect familiarity with the great Greek tragedians was still the mark of a gentleman, and then Sidonius quoted from Sophocles Compass'd with dazzling light, Throned on Olympus's height, His front the Eternal God uprears By toils unwearied, and unaged by years; Far back, through ages past, Far on, through time to come, Hath been, and still must last, Sin's never-changing doom.

Its familiarity is not its weakness, but its supreme virtue.

Our very familiarity with the term, our habit of employing it with the rich looseness of every-day life is an obstacle to the clearness of thought, which is again essential.

Though, perhaps, wanting in some of the graces and refinements of polite life, it is clear, from his intimacy with the Breuning family, his consequent familiarity with the best society at Bonn, the unchanging kindness of Count Waldstein, the explicit testimony of Junker, that he was not, could not have been, the young savage which some of his blind admirers have represented him.