Once her attention was caught by a familiar cadence.

Instead it counted a quick cadence familiar to Jilly from several early turns on comedy-club stages, when her material had not connected with the audience.

I heard the familiar cadences that had been passed down by our people from singer to singer for hundreds of years.

The voice that issued from the little girl's mouth, though thin and breathy, had a familiar cadence.

Ky could almost hear her father's voice in those familiar cadences.

John Adams, the Indians' famed drummer for more than 30 years, pounded out his familiar cadence in the right-field bleachers.

In another, he is bound and gagged but manages to delivers the message, or at least its familiar cadences.

He changed the familiar cadence of the political debate.

The hammering continued on in a familiar cadence.

Bright brass buttons, each decorated with the raised image of a lion passant, the familiar cadence mark from English heraldry.