bosom friend
Example Sentences
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Nathan Rothschild, no bosom friend of Wellington, did bid for a loan to France after Napoleon's first defeat, sent the market down by selling his own government bonds when his bid was refused.
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One of his ancestors had been a bosom friend of Henry VIII, and the men of Northampton had never bothered greatly about what others said.
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R�camier became the bosom friend of the detested Mme. de Sta�l, thus forming an "alliance of two weak creatures who face their oppressors together."
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He is credited with having been a bosom friend of Phineas Taylor Barnum, whom he, as an infant, vaguely remembers having once seen saluting patrons at his show.
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But anyhow, she’s yo’ bosom friend, so you better go see ’bout her.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
