bosom friend
Example Sentences
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In China she met Maggie, also from the U. S., and became her bosom friend.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the past three years Alan Patrick Herbert, Punch staff member and tireless contributor, has been regaling readers with the letters of Topsy, exclamatory and energetic post-War type, to her bosom friend.
From Time Magazine Archive
"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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
I acted in the capacity of backer, or best-man, to the bridegroom; while a little limp pew-opener in a soft bonnet like a baby’s, made a feint of being the bosom friend of Miss Skiffins.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
