fidus Achates
Example Sentences
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He has long been the fidus Achates of the Hampden Company.
From Time Magazine Archive
No. 2 man on the board is the President's fidus Achates, Harry Hopkins.
From Time Magazine Archive
Where was his fidus Achates, the “Arqueem Nobba?”
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis
Isabella was attended and consoled in her retirement by her faithful servant Transita, her "fidus Achates."
From An Old Sailor's Yarns by Ames, N. (Nathaniel)
Stephen Eaton, an alert, clear-eyed young fellow who served as fidus Achates to Ridgway, and was the secretary and treasurer of the Mesa Ore-producing Company, took the seat Smythe had vacated.
From Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) by Raine, William MacLeod
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