What he does do extremely well is climb inside familiar passages and dig out buried meanings.

But the toddler felt safe leaning on the old lady's bosom after dinner and hearing the familiar passages.

It fell open easily at a familiar passage.

Let us glance at a familiar passage of Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5.16-21.

Suddenly my eyes stopped, and a familiar passage jumped out at me.

It was a passage familiar to me, but in the King James translation.

She was telling it for my benefit; the others nodded as she spoke, like church women hearing a familiar passage of Scripture.

If the mind wandered occasionally during these terribly familiar passages, it did so confident that in its absence, nothing could possibly go wrong.

Fourteen pages into the book, she ran across what felt like a familiar passage.

Her son s painful, familiar passage into adulthood is set against her own transformation, shown in reverse.