Word: companion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...night over their heads; at first no more than a drowsy, indistinguishable murmur, then a louder whine, like the nasal complaining of some fabulous insect; presently its eye became visible?a small inflamed pimple, swathed in huge bandages of mist. The more alert of the two campers nudged his companion...
...sitting under a blazing gas jet, swatting mosquitoes, helping arrange the term time-schedules of the college; Sumner, the inactive man, bicycling for his health, in uncharacteristic dowdy clothes, a cap pulled forward so that the bald cranium was revealed behind, pedalling at such a pace that his panting companion could not catch the scraps of conversation flung back at him; Sumner suddenly giving up smoking; asking for a picture of his physician's pretty child, looking at it constantly; pitching at one-o'-cat for his own boys, plunging through the blizzard of '88 to fetch them from their...
Under the cliffs of Disko, near God-haven, an Eskimo kyak (canoe) manned by men in yellow oilskins hailed the pitching Bowdoin in some strange and unintelligible language. As the range shortened, it was perceived that the men spoke English, that they were Mac-Millan's companion-explorers from the Peary, which had preceded the Bowdoin to Disko and lay at anchor around a point...
...companion who cannot understand "sentimental nonsense...
...come across pictures of the woman whom I admire most in the whole world, both in the theatre and on the screen. Imagine my surprise. I am sincerely sorry to have disarranged the charming interior and make every apology and abandon everything I coveted to take along. My companion cannot understand what he terms "sentimental nonsense." I will indemnify him. But allow me, madam, to take your pictures. Your radiant beauty, which seems to me also to speak of great goodness of heart, will excuse this petty larceny. Some day I will write and tell you my life duty. Perhaps...