bosom friend

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It was he who, as a bosom friend, stayed by Long's death bed. rushed out with the first news of his passing.

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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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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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"There's something horrible in the world," said Spinster Margaret to her bosom friend, Spinster Emily, as they sat together in their snug, rich home in the suburb of Wedgewood.

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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