Ignatius Druso, my fellow student, was of opinion that he only dexterously availed himself in the evening of the news which he had gathered from his patients in the morning; and that his familiars were no more than a few active emissaries, for whose espionage and additional gleanings of town news, it answered to him well, to pay.

His Familiars were his entire Friends, and could have no interested Views in courting his Acquaintance; for his Affection was no Step to their Preferment, tho' it was to their Reputation.

Familiar still is also a game of dexterity played with five stones thrown from the upper part of the hand and caught in the palm.

Another familiar of the same sort was a certain stone-cutter called Domenico Fancelli, and nicknamed Topolino.

Not for nothing had she spent so much of her life at army posts where love-making is as familiar as brass buttons.

The names of his confessor, Friar Tuck; his mistress, Maid Marian; his companions, Little John, Scathelock, and Much, the miller's son, were as familiar as household words.

The every-day distinctions made on this subject, are as familiar as table-talk.

The term spouse I select as somewhat less familiar than wife, somewhat more permanent than bride, and somewhat less amatory than the partner of my bosom.