pot-companions

My reason is as well convinced that these gentry were as utterly worthless and debauched villains, as it is that the laws and jails hardened them in their evil courses, or that their wonderful escapes were effected by the prison-turnkeys who, in those admirable days, had always been felons themselves, and were, to the last, their bosom-friends and pot-companions.

American Notes for General Circulation 2007

We gave him an easy one, for he was not vain of his own powers, or ambitious of theatrical distinction; so he was to be "second fellow" -- one of Tony's pot-companions.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Various

This familiarity, however, only takes place when the examiners are pot-companions of the candidate, which indeed is usually the case; for it is reckoned good management to get acquainted with two or three jolly (p.  152) young masters of arts, and supply them well with port previously to the examination.

Life in the Medieval University Robert S. Rait

There too is the old-established farmer, who has about him a considerable sum of money -- a fact he mentions for the information of his pot-companions, on purpose to be robbed of it.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 23, 1841 Various

But he took no notice of my pique, and clapped me on the shoulder as if we were pot-companions.

Montlivet Alice Prescott Smith

” No man who valued his head might do what these pot-companions familiarly did with the king.

XI. English Traits. Aristocracy 1909

So with no more unwillingness than was reasonable, considering that he was passing the time very happily in his house with pretty women and jolly pot-companions, he made answer to the message that he would wait upon

The God of Love 1898

Some bumpkin of your own choosing -- some petty gentleman who lives down at that outlandish place of yours, Falls-Park -- one of your pot-companions 'sons --'

A Group of Noble Dames Thomas Hardy 1884

No man who valued his head might do what these pot-companions familiarly did with the king.

English Traits (1856) 1856

Shall we not quit our companions, as if they were thieves and pot-companions, and betake ourselves to some desert cliff of mount Katahdin, some unvisited recess in Moosehead Lake, to bewail our innocency and to recover it, and with it the power to communicate again with these sharers of a more sacred idea?

Nature: Addresses and Lectures (1849) 1849