playfellow

• [I was so much the youngest of a numerous family that I had no playfellow, and for that reason listened with all my ears to the grown people's conversation, most especially when my mother and the friends of her youth got upon old stories nor did I lose my taste for them when I grew old enough to converse with her on equal terms, and enquire into particulars.] —  Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10)
• His favourite playfellow was the dog, whose teasing and worrying was always borne, and returned with the utmost good humour and playfulness. —  Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
• I will untie your halter and help you outside so that you may run away to Lapland, but you must put your best foot foremost, and take this little girl for me to the Snow Queen's palace, where her playfellow is. —  Stories from Hans Andersen
• The pup saw in Rowdy a new playfellow, and charged from the door-step just as that good steed was mentally preparing to come to a stop. —  The Ridin' Kid from Powder River
• Mark and Nell were charmed with the transformation in Hetty and very much disposed to accept her as a playfellow, though they remembered all the time that she was not their equal Hetty, being only four years old, was supremely unconscious of all that was being said, and meant, and thought over her curly head. —  Hetty Gray Nobody's Bairn

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