A long-familiar face. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
'No, dammit,' a long-familiar voice spoke in my ear. From Wordnik.com. [Decider]
Then the weather and everyone's health were discussed in long-familiar detail. From Wordnik.com. [Unforgiven]
I woke up to the long-familiar words in the familar voice of our long-lived former President, Gerald Ford. From Wordnik.com. ["Our long national nightmare is over."] Reference
Daniel Craig's first appearance as 007 in Casino Royale injected fresh like into a long-familiar franchise. From Wordnik.com. [Are all second films of 007 actors flawed?] Reference
I like this sort of thing, mash-ups especially because it always puts a new twist on long-familiar material. From Wordnik.com. ["'Strawberry Fields Forever' builds ... into a psychedelic swirl ... of 'Hello Goodbye,' 'Baby You're a Rich Man,' 'Penny Lane' and Piggies.''"] Reference
And a servant, a long-familiar and faithful body servant, could suggest a visit if the boy did not think of it himself. From Wordnik.com. [Ill Met By Moonlight]
His fingers ran automatically through the long-familiar exercises, while his mind turned over and over the implications of Flindaran's outburst. From Wordnik.com. [The Harp of Imach Thyssel]
Then -- her hands were in his, his dear, protecting hands, the hands she loved, with their thrilling, long-familiar touch, claiming as well as giving. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.] Reference
Rather than searching for a resolution to this long-familiar inconsistency, in this essay I suggest these contradictions as byproducts of agonistic pressures themselves. From Wordnik.com. [_Alastor_, Apostasy, and the Ecology of Criticism] Reference
Visions of long-familiar homes and long-familiar friends?. From Wordnik.com. [A Traveller in War-Time] Reference
Characters come, move about and make their final exits through long-familiar doors. From Wordnik.com. [The Amazing Interlude] Reference
Also, some long-familiar brands have been revitalized because of their appeal to U.S. From Wordnik.com. [The Seattle Times] Reference
Then, from throats that spoke my own tongue, rose the rollicking words of a long-familiar chorus. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China] Reference
Looking down through his window on all the long-familiar objects, he saw a light in Sabine's store-chamber. From Wordnik.com. [Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag] Reference
Perhaps it was their long-familiar, friendly faces, which made this his favorite room his own especial domain. From Wordnik.com. [John Halifax, Gentleman] Reference
Perhaps it was their long-familiar, friendly faces which made this his favourite room, his own especial domain. From Wordnik.com. [John Halifax, Gentleman] Reference
She spoke very listlessly, looking past him as if at a long-familiar picture which she was tired of contemplating. From Wordnik.com. [The Ne'er-Do-Well] Reference
They were married in the sunshine of the old orchard, circled by the loving and kindly faces of long-familiar friends. From Wordnik.com. [Anne's House of Dreams] Reference
This has meant certain features long-familiar to Windows users have been removed, or at the least extensively modified. From Wordnik.com. [PC Advisor News] Reference
This was the same long-familiar tone his father always took with him, and Seryozha had learned by now to fall in with it. From Wordnik.com. [Anna Karenina] Reference
She looked -- her eyes absorbing it from every point, as one drinks in, for the last time, a long-familiar draught of landscape beauty. From Wordnik.com. [Agatha's Husband A Novel] Reference
But the effort, which is closing some churches and retiring long-familiar parish names, also has sparked opposition from some area Catholics. From Wordnik.com. [Clerical Whispers] Reference
His last moments were solaced by the tender assiduities of his congenial helpmate, of his children, and of his old and long-familiar friends. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader] Reference
He led the horses from the shed under which he had hitched them to the stage, and climbed with his lantern into the long-familiar place by the whip. From Wordnik.com. [Mountain Blood A Novel] Reference
I was talking over that last fact, in a rather dreamy mood, as he and I sat in our long-familiar summer seat, the clematis arbour by the garden wall. From Wordnik.com. [John Halifax, Gentleman] Reference
And when her servant soothed her in the long-familiar way, telling her she would be better in the morning, she smiled contentedly, and turned to go to sleep. From Wordnik.com. [Mistress and Maid. A Household Story.] Reference
As banks lose lucrative fees because of new regulations, they're expecting customers to start paying for long-familiar services or settle for cheaper alternatives. From Wordnik.com. [KansasCity.com: Front Page] Reference
(which he was marvellously quick to detect) thus to interfere with his long-familiar business. From Wordnik.com. [The Dolliver Romance] Reference
C And some is just long-familiar noise of overbuild/underbuild boom-and-bust, overlaid on the trends above. From Wordnik.com. [Rabett Run] Reference
A long-familiar bitterness rose in Jay's throat. From Wordnik.com. [A Place Called Freedom]
He heard the long-familiar click. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell] Reference
And treated like a long-familiar guest. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes] Reference
When long-familiar joys are all resigned. From Wordnik.com. [DESCRIPTIVE SKETCHES TAKEN DURING A PEDESTRIAN TOUR AMONG THE ALPS] Reference
All dim and strange the long-familiar ground. From Wordnik.com. [0 1172. From "The Inverted Torch" by Edith Matilda Thomas. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900] Reference
This is long-familiar ground, of course. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
Where some long-familiar steeple. From Wordnik.com. [The Path to Home] Reference
C) His sources may be long-familiar ones. From Wordnik.com. [Deltoid] Reference
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