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travelling-companion

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  • When the merchants inquired about the reason for the youth's sorrow, he told them that he had lost his "faithful travelling-companion."

    Archive 2008-03-01 AYDIN 2008

  • When the merchants inquired about the reason for the youth's sorrow, he told them that he had lost his "faithful travelling-companion."

    A Sunday story: Father, Son and the Holy Donkey AYDIN 2008

  • Francis Goodchild, anxious that the hours should pass by his crippled travelling-companion as lightly as possible, suggested that his sofa should be moved to the window, and that he should amuse himself by looking out at the moving panorama of humanity, which the view from it of the principal street presented.

    The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices 2007

  • It appeared also, that on the day he parted from me, he had been stopped on a solitary spot and eased of his beloved travelling-companion, the portmanteau, by two men, well mounted and armed, having their faces covered with vizards.

    Rob Roy 2005

  • Norway, as guide and travelling-companion to a party of

    Maurice Guest 2003

  • In either case his reader returns from Old England with the impression that his travelling-companion is a sensible, honest observer, who, in forming a book out of very good material, has often builded, not better, but worse, than he knew.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. Various

  • On that journey I had a singular travelling-companion, a beautiful fish,

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 Various

  • Directly opposite me sat a gentleman, who, on learning that I was for Rochester, said he was going there too, and afterwards proved an agreeable travelling-companion.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 Various

  • Some casual remark led us into a conversation, and soon, to our mutual surprise and gratification, we learned that the lady was a dear and long-time friend of my travelling-companion.

    Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time James R. Gilmore

  • But alone with Nick, their old travelling-companion, they shone out in their native simplicity, and Mr. Hicks talked soundly of investments, and Mrs. Hicks recalled her early married days in Apex City, when, on being brought home to her new house in Aeschylus Avenue, her first thought had been: "How on earth shall I get all those windows washed?"

    The Glimpses of the Moon 1922

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