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  • Mary was no more than a pale camp-follower of a gorgeous, conquering general.

    BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN 2010

  • Then back to that inveterate camp-follower Christie Blatchford, who apparently has not had enough of purveying selective Tory leaks.

    Archive 2009-11-01 2009

  • This was uncommon sense for her; she knew that I was really a camp-follower of the commission whom they might find useful, but I'd borne no part beyond listening to some of their discussions, answering a question or two from Allison, and talking a bit of shop with General Terry, the military representative.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • But if not a scientist herself, she cared for scientists and in an important sense, understood their work; married to a scientist, she often said that she was a camp-follower to the scientists.

    Rosalind Franklin and Hedy Lamarr movies in the works Peggy 2007

  • But if not a scientist herself, she cared for scientists and in an important sense, understood their work; married to a scientist, she often said that she was a camp-follower to the scientists.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Peggy 2007

  • I HAVE to mention Newton's portrayal of camp-follower Pistol in Henry V one more time -- he had Sir Lawrence Olivier on the verge of cracking up!

    View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2006

  • I've been doggedly contributing to Grand Rounds for a couple of months now, but I haven't felt like a "real" medblogger -- more like a wannabe camp-follower -- so validation from the Father of Grand Rounds himself was lovely.

    Tickled Pink Susan Palwick 2006

  • I've been doggedly contributing to Grand Rounds for a couple of months now, but I haven't felt like a "real" medblogger -- more like a wannabe camp-follower -- so validation from the Father of Grand Rounds himself was lovely.

    Archive 2006-12-01 Susan Palwick 2006

  • Within minutes the Strangler admitted that he had infiltrated the camp-follower crowd after our victory at Charandaprash.

    She Is The Darkness Cook, Glen 1997

  • The vocation of camp-follower to a band of Shrikes could not be considered the most delicate calling, and I doubted that any of these ladies were blushing virgins.

    River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993

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