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long-familiar

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adj.1.frequently seen or experienced; as, a long-familiar face.
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Adj.1.long-familiar - frequently experienced; known closely or intimately; "a long-familiar face"; "a well-known voice reached her ears"
well-known
familiar - well known or easily recognized; "a familiar figure"; "familiar songs"; "familiar guests"


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They were married in the sunshine of the old orchard, circled by the loving and kindly faces of long-familiar friends.
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Its prow had scarcely touched when the ape-man leaped to shore--his heart beat fast in joy and exultation as each long-familiar object came beneath his roving eyes--the cabin, the beach, the little brook, the dense jungle, the black, impenetrable forest.
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This is why it was, that, even as he sat before her on his sofa, in the brilliant light of a bright Italian day, the wonderful city without and the splendours of an old palace within, she saw him at the moment in the long-familiar gloom of his Marshalsea lodging, and wished to take her seat beside him, and comfort him, and be again full of confidence with him, and of usefulness to him.
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