Time was becoming short, as the cloaked climber could tell by the glances that he gave toward the wide-spreading shadow below him, which had familiar markings transforming it into a tremendous sundial.

It was more than I could manage to sit up or even raise my head higher, but the familiar markings on the tube were heartening.

There were no recognizable signs, no familiar markings, and no changes in color or shape or smell or taste that would reveal to them even the smallest clue.

The first, bearing the title Day One, showed her neck gouged by familiar markings.

I looked at the familiar markings: twelve-point Medium Gothic lettering here, ten-point Metrolite capitals there, eight-point Times Roman for the bulk of the setting.

He captured the hand that invited, and felt on the palm familiar markings and distortions.

In the azure sky hung the pale orb of the Moon, a silver ghost blotched with familiar markings.

In the unwavering brightness Kasimir was easily able to see the distinctive, inescapably familiar little markings left in the freshly carved-out surface of the tunnel's wall.

Inhabiting an alter ego with suspiciously familiar biographical markings, Theroux pulls certain of his previous procedures inside out.

Sisko whistled when he saw its familiar military markings.