Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Familiar

Familiar as a popular song.
—Anonymous

Familiar as the sights on our streets.
—Anonymous

Familiar as my sleep, or want of money.
—Beaumont and Fletcher

Familiar as the simple lore
That two policemen and two thieves make four.
—Ambrose Bierce

Familiar as a cradle-song.
—Robert J. Burdette

Familiar as a voice of home.
—John Crawford

Familiar as an oath.
—Lord De Tabley

Familiar, like the amulet worn on the heart.
—George Eliot

As familiar as a fiddler.
—John Fletcher

Familiar to me as my own face in the glass; as the speech of my own tongue.
—Victor Hugo

Familiar as eating.
—Philip Massinger

Familiar as his garter.
—William Shakespeare

Familiar in his mouth as household words.
—William Shakespeare

Familiar as the sun and moon.
—Henry D. Thoreau

Familiar as our childhood’s stream
Or pleasant memory of a dream.
—John Greenleaf Whittier

Familiar as a book.
—N. P. Willis