Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Familiar
Familiar as a popular song.
—Anonymous
Familiar as the sights on our streets.
—Anonymous
Familiar as my sleep, or want of money.
—Beaumont and Fletcher
Familiar as the simple lore
That two policemen and two thieves make four.
—Ambrose Bierce
Familiar as a cradle-song.
—Robert J. Burdette
Familiar as a voice of home.
—John Crawford
Familiar as an oath.
—Lord De Tabley
Familiar, like the amulet worn on the heart.
—George Eliot
As familiar as a fiddler.
—John Fletcher
Familiar to me as my own face in the glass; as the speech of my own tongue.
—Victor Hugo
Familiar as eating.
—Philip Massinger
Familiar as his garter.
—William Shakespeare
Familiar in his mouth as household words.
—William Shakespeare
Familiar as the sun and moon.
—Henry D. Thoreau
Familiar as our childhood’s stream
Or pleasant memory of a dream.
—John Greenleaf Whittier
Familiar as a book.
—N. P. Willis