The sardonic amusement on the phone, the maddeningly familiar note in her deep-throated laugh.

The cold dawn light darkened to a flickery silver that danced in patterns on the metal that seemed maddeningly familiar.

The other voice he found maddeningly familiar.

His hand moved back toward his quill pen but stopped abruptly, as the familiar voice penetrated where the maddeningly familiar stock phrases would not.

But sometimes the faces of the woman and the boy, maddeningly familiar, came back to haunt his darkest hours.

Over and over his mind returned to the maddeningly familiar word engram.

Beside him the dragon standard swayed in the grasp of another man maddeningly familiar as the king himself, and behind them surged the shining hundreds.

Upon coming to the castle that he finds "maddeningly familiar," the narrator sees a gathering of people at a party within.

"No, you and Berry Zilwicki haven't," that maddeningly familiar voice agreed.

He looked maddeningly familiar.