Familiar

(noun.) a spirit (usually in animal form) that acts as an assistant to a witch or wizard.

(noun.) a person attached to the household of a high official (as a pope or bishop) who renders service in return for support.

(adj.) having mutual interests or affections; of established friendship; 'on familiar terms'; 'pretending she is on an intimate footing with those she slanders' .

(adj.) well known or easily recognized; 'a familiar figure'; 'familiar songs'; 'familiar guests' .

(adj.) within normal everyday experience; common and ordinary; not strange; 'familiar ordinary objects found in every home'; 'a familiar everyday scene'; 'a familiar excuse'; 'a day like any other filled with familiar duties and experiences' .

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• On the second day he found his wife and Sir Percival whispering together quite familiar, close under the vestry of the church. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• You are not familiar with Cambridgeshire scenery, are you? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• There was something most startlingly familiar about him, exclaimed Mr. Philander, And yet, bless me, I know I never saw him before. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• The horses were post; and neither the carriage, nor the livery of the servant who preceded it, were familiar to them. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• Application and industry have been familiar to the one; idleness and dissipation to the other. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• His appearance was quite familiar to me. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Tiglath Pileser III and Sargon II, names already familiar in this story, profess to have made them pay tribute. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I am, of course, familiar with the contents of these letters. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• He knew to the full extent only through experience, what a large place in his life was left blank when her familiar little figure went out of it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The best known constituent of the air is oxygen, already familiar to us as the feeder of the fire without and within the body. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• We are all familiar with the less powerful ones which are universally used on automobiles for night driving and in a multitude of other every-day practices. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Keimer and I lived on a pretty good, familiar footing, and agreed tolerably well; for he suspected nothing of my setting up. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• He had no familiar friend. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The negative or iron plate (Fig. 5) has the familiar flat-pocket construction. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Mrs. Bounderby,' said Harthouse, perfectly hearing this under-strain as it went on; 'your brother's face is quite familiar to me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• His familiars were creeping and winged things, and they seemed to enroll him in their band. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.

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