He saw it, along with a dozen other familiar expressions, all of them much loved and missed.

It was a familiar expression, and one he had learned to distrust in the past.

It was a familiar expression on the little man's face.

She looked up and saw an all too familiar expression on his face.

It is a familiar expression in describing a great crowd, that a person might have walked upon the people's heads.

The face bore the familiar cold expression, the voice came exactly as he had known it.

She looked across at Tally, wearing a familiar expression.

His eyes blinked rapidly and then took on a more familiar expression.

Merisms also figure in a number of familiar English expressions.

In the darkness he felt his features hardening into a familiar expression.