Oh-God set the dome fields to recognize me as a friend.

He recognized it as an old friend (or enemy): the queasiness he always felt when fear and food met together.

Of course, it means only that they recognize the person as a good friend or a comrade.

And now this-human being-wishes to be recognized as a friend.

As they emerge from the fireplace, Bodie recognizes him as an old friend.

Mother was now recognized as a friend to all Minstrels throughout the known universe.

He made a secret signal to them, and they recognized him as a friend.

He recognized me as an old friend whom he had not seen for fifteen years.

The white-haired nobleman recognized The Shadow as an old friend.

The other two sailors arrive with the first girl, who recognizes the second girl as a friend.