Anarchism, riots and rebellion were familiar companions of the Republic's bumbling modernity.

Night entered the car: a familiar companion with whom he had passed uncountable lonely hours in troubled contemplation of a life gone wrong.

The study found that poverty remained a familiar companion among those who left the rolls.

But hope had been snatched away too soon, and despair returned as my familiar companion.

But I was an anguissette, and the memory of pain was a familiar companion to me, never wholly unwelcome.

The Observer commented that the book deserved "to become the familiar companion of all who seek uninhibited excitement in the kitchen."

So to be with an animal is to know a little freedom… "Last night, I was thinking of how witches often have a companion, a familiar.

He also appeared with his familiar companion, a snake named Herman.

If it became necessary he would show that gun to his new yet familiar companion.

There a familiar, bearded companion joined him for dinner.