best man

• “Captain Crowell, the father of my dead friend Mrs. Addy, and himself my best man friend, was a strong supporter of the Free Religious Group.”

  The Story of a Pioneer

• “In the eyes of Lee, the best man available for the vacancy was Cadmus Wilcox of Anderson's division, who was recommended a fortnight after Pender died of his wound.”

  Simon & Schuster: LEE’S LIEUTENANTS

• “Geddes agreed to see the Sea Lords two at a time and informed them that, two months earlier, he had spoken to the two previous First Lords, Carson and Balfour, in the presence of Lloyd George, and that both former First Lords had told him that they did not consider Jellicoe the best man to lead the Admiralty.”

  Castles of Steel

• “And the best man for the job was afraid of him, just like he was afraid of Dudley Smith.”

  The Big Nowhere

• “Yes, she had told the Towles boys she would marry the best man of them.”

  Hard-Hearted Barbary Allen. A Kentucky Mountain Sketch.

• “Kellar, if he were still alive, could probably pull the answer out of a hat after three looks — he had an instinct and genius for it; the best man the business ever had, even if his tricks did threaten to steal our work out from under us and give him the lead.”

  Science Fiction Hall of Fame

• “He was generally admitted to be the best man physically, in the employ of Russell, Majors &”

  The Life of Hon William F Cody

• “The Mayor offered him the headship of the Street Cleaning Department, but this he declined, not because he thought the place beneath him, but because he lacked the necessary scientific qualifications, and Mayor Strong, was lucky in finding for it the best man in the country,”

  Theodore Roosevelt An Intimate Biography

• ““You are the best man in Bristol, Cousin James!” cried Mr. Thistlethwaite jovially.”

  Simon & Schuster: Morgan’s Run

• “Abbot of Cheminon, who was reputed the best man in the White Order.”

  The Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville

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