half-familiar

Already it features a half-familiar lone traveller.

Colin Thubron on the literature of place 2011

Now, you can set a High Fantasy with bags of romantic melancholic magical half-familiar majesty with a pantheon in the background, but they would have to be gods that lend themselves to that sort of thing: think of majestic Roman Mars as opposed to craven Greek Ares.

MIND MELD: Gods by the Bushel 2009

They threw back a half-familiar, reddish-yellow light.

A Corridor in the Asylum 2010

The journey wound through half-familiar sights of her childhood: ugly dorms and schools, sodden parks, and empty soccer fields.

Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet Scott Westerfeld 2010

It is a series of beautiful, half-strange/half-familiar tableaux of humans taking on ritual aspects of the natural world to acquire power and perform rites that will arouse and channel the supernatural.

SeeLight: 2007

Reaching up with one hand, Deryn felt the half-familiar shape of the knot… .

LEVIATHAN MR. SCOTT WESTERFELD 2009

For this reason, I became interested in knowing the stories behind those half-familiar names and events.

Lion's Honey: The Myth of Samson by David Grossman 2007

Reaching up with one hand, Deryn felt the half-familiar shape of the knot… .

LEVIATHAN MR. SCOTT WESTERFELD 2009

For this reason, I became interested in knowing the stories behind those half-familiar names and events.

Archive 2007-05-01 2007

It is a series of beautiful, half-strange/half-familiar tableaux of humans taking on ritual aspects of the natural world to acquire power and perform rites that will arouse and channel the supernatural.

The Dark is Rising 2007