"Familiarize" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... morning the King and Crown Prince left the palace secretly, in closed chairs, such as women use. Their escape was carefully planned. For more than a week before, the ladies of the palace had caused a number of chairs to go in and out by the several gates in order to familiarize the guards with the idea that they were paying many visits. So when, early in the morning, two women's chairs were carried out by the attendants, the guards took no special notice. The King and his son arrived at the Russian ...
— Korea's Fight for Freedom • F.A. McKenzie
... The reproduction by the Arundel Society of this picture will familiarize those who care for English art with what is, perhaps, its finest example, next to the crosses of Queen Eleanor. It has been erroneously attributed to Van Eyk, but it is undoubtedly English. That its art is contemporary with the time of Richard II., is shown ...
— Needlework As Art • Marian Alford
... divine the primitive nature of his native manner of life, but the consciousness of this fact only strengthened his desire to familiarize himself ...
— Ralph Granger's Fortunes • William Perry Brown
... of mind enveloped him, but he was beginning to familiarize himself with it now. He probed slowly for the memories, down through Horng's own personal memories of three centuries, dry feet on the dust and low winds, down to the racial pool. And ...
— Warlord of Kor • Terry Gene Carr
... in the townlet Salant, in the Zhmud region, [1] lived for some time in Courland, and finally settled in Vilna. He managed to familiarize himself with German literature, and was so fascinated by it that he started his literary career by translating and adapting German works into Hebrew. His translation of Campe's "Discovery of America" and Politz' Universal History, as well as his own history of ...
— History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II • S.M. Dubnow
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