Meanings of long-familiar in English

Characters come, move about and make their final exits through long-familiar doors.

So instead I replayed what I had, the long-familiar images and the recent arrivals.

Perhaps it was their long-familiar, friendly faces which made this his favourite room, his own especial domain.

Looking down through his window on all the long-familiar objects, he saw a light in Sabine's store-chamber.

Visions of long-familiar homes and long-familiar friends?

Regnault, however, had spoken with passion, and as though out of the fulness of some sore and long-familiar pondering.

She spoke very listlessly, looking past him as if at a long-familiar picture which she was tired of contemplating.

They were married in the sunshine of the old orchard, circled by the loving and kindly faces of long-familiar friends.

The boy worried that his mother might not be safe, out there in the suddenly unknown streets of this long-familiar town.

You can live a lifetime in one place and yet not master its geography: routes long-familiar will suddenly be blocked off by barriers of checkpoints.