And then went farther into the town, and there the fellow, being spoken to by one of his familiars, lost her for a few minutes: but he soon saw her come out of a linen-drapery shop, attended with a servant-maid, having, as it proved, got that maid-servant to go with her to the house she is now at.
"Clarissa, Volume 5 (of 9)"
Samuel Richardson
People about them-his unconscious familiars-sipped and chattered, and fluttered up and away, but he remained fixed throughout.
"Under the Skylights"
Henry Blake Fuller