"It has a dimly familiar sound."

She riffled quickly through the pile and saw nothing of interest but an envelope addressed to her in a bold black hand that looked dimly familiar.

This may be dimly familiar to those who once took an American history course.

Earlier in the day, Mr. Gordon said, the delegation met with Dutch diplomats and then drove through a city that for some of them is dimly familiar.

Enkidu found his nose over a tray of fresh river fish, boiled in oil, balanced on the head of a bandy-legged old man who looked dimly familiar.

Directly across the room from him was a dimly familiar face.

An old woman was sitting by him, whispering an almost tuneless song that seemed dimly familiar.

And one thing more: he had looked dimly familiar.

The sensation was dimly familiar.

One day the players would drive through countryside that looked dimly familiar.