105 Verbs to Use for the Word familiarities

Byron showed a remarkable familiarity with the Scriptures, and with parts of Barrow, Chillingworth, and Stillingfleet; but on Kennedy's lending for his edification Boston's Fourfold State, he returned it with the remark that it was too deep for him.

" Ida clung the closer to her companion, who, she was surprised to find, did not resent the man's familiarity.

She wondered I did not offer again.' Advises her, if I don't soon, 'not to stay with me.' Cautions her, 'to keep me at a distance; not to permit the least familiarity.

He called in incidentally, while we were sitting at table, and exhibited all the familiarity of a frequent visitant.

But, as presents and civilities gained him more familiarity, he found that almost every man, who stood high in employment, hated all the rest, and was hated by them, and that their lives were a continual succession of plots and detections, stratagems and escapes, faction and treachery.

She had acquired a certain familiarity with the night from Marcos, and it seemed natural at Torre Garda to fall into the habits of those who lived there.

" It is evident that during her stay in Baden some person attempted familiarity with Constanze and was rewarded with a box on the ears.

As I was a subject of neither of them, they seemed to think this circumstance allowed a little more familiarity than otherwise they would have shown.

But he found it a very different thing to affect familiarity among his associates, and to practise it in the very face of its subject; and, although seldom at a loss for words of some sort or another, he was now actually dumb-founded.

" This was done, and in a minute or two the captain and Joel were seated in the library, Joyce respectfully standing; the old soldier always declining to assume any familiarity with his superior.

Cook was pleased to notice his men were not inclined to associate with the Maoris, and he always tried to discourage familiarity between his crew and the natives of the islands he visited.

THE PHEASANT-HEN Moral: I dislike familiarity!

This is why there are so few with whom you care to become more intimate, and why you should avoid familiarity with vulgar people.

She was slender, and not tall, but spirited in manner; exhibited a fine freedom with her new acquaintances at the table, mostly gentlemen, but with an elegance which repelled familiarity.

'That is because everything in your house is so confoundedly handsome and expensive,' retorted Sir George, who did not very much care about being called George, tout court, by a person of Mr. Smithson's obscure antecedents, but who had to endure the familiarity for reasons known only to himself and Mr. Smithson.

Her foolishness annoyed Madame Aubain, who, moreover did not like the nephew's familiarity, for he called her son "thou";and, as Virginia began to cough and the season was over, she decided to return to Pont-l'Evêque.

They invariably bear towards one another a constrained familiarity or frigid courtesy, while to their huntsmen and their prickers, their chaplains and their cooks, (or indeed any other man's,) they display unequivocal signs of ingenuous cordiality.

Yet, after all, it is a mere trick of the nerves, and only indicates familiarity and long service, or a deaf ear,and not want of self-possession or strength of heart.

This new uncle, she reflected, might become an intolerable bore, if she encouraged his frank familiarity.

Buckheath displayed an awesome familiarity with the machine and its workings, crawling under the body, and tapping it here and there with a wrench its driver supplied.

I want 'that easy air which presupposes familiarity with society'that's what it says in my book," objected Abner.

[Footnote 57: A native of Philadelphia, who has resided much abroad, and pursued a varied literary career; he possesses a familiarity with the German language and character, which he has turned to good account in the comic ballads by Hans Breitman.

During the whole time Rip and his companion had labored on in silence; for though the former marvelled greatly what could be the object of carrying a keg of liquor up this wild mountain, yet there was something strange and incomprehensible about the unknown, that inspired awe and checked familiarity.

That other playwrights and poets of his day manifest a like familiarity (as we have seen they do) precludes us, indeed, from regarding the mere occurrence of law-terms in his works as indications of early training proper to him alone.

and argue familiarity.

105 Verbs to Use for the Word  familiarities