intimate

• Here the lyrism is that of memory and of the heart--intimate, tender, grave, with a feeling for the hearth and home, a sensibility to the tranquillising influences of nature, a charity for human-kind, a faith in God, a hope of immortality. —  A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
• I am anxious that we should obtain the confidence of the Government and entirely disconnect ourselves from that tribe of levellers with whom we have been too intimate, and who are, at any time ready to turn around and sell us when we fail to please them Nov. —  The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada
• We had once been quite intimate, and it was seventeen years since we had met. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
• We got a bit--intimate--together--an' you--was kind. —  Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D.
• Their acquaintance soon became rather intimate, and he occasionally made this new friend the companion of his country walks, but as to his parentage and place of residence he always preserved total silence. —  Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10)

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