When the boy brought my supper, I asked him his name, how old he was, and other trifling questions, to Familiarize and embolden him; and learned from his answers that he had a poor mother, who was unable to provide for him, and that he had been bound apprentice to this keeper by the parish.
"Anna St. Ives"
Thomas Holcroft
Indeed he had lately spoken of meditating a public tour, in order to Familiarize the country with This Weary World and The Rod of the Oppressor and the newer work still unfinished.
"Under the Skylights"
Henry Blake Fuller
The voyage took fourteen days, and before undertaking it, he descended the two rivers in a flatboat, to Familiarize himself with the channel.
"American Merchant Ships and Sailors"
Willis J. Abbot