bosom friend
Example Sentences
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He had the C.I.O.'s President Phil Murray, once a bosom friend, sputtering with rage.
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
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.
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
So she went straight to her bosom friend, Pheoby Watson, and told her about it.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
