Word: companionship
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...more melodramatic, more Elizabethan, than anything that she or her contemporaries wrote. The daughter of the editor of the Cornhill Magazine, with James Russell Lowell for her godfather (she received no religious instruction), with Hardy, Ruskin and Gosse for family visitors and her sister Vanessa for companionship, she was educated at home, too delicate a child to stand normal schooling. Her mother died when she was 13, her father when she was 22. She wrote her first book, The Voyage Out, in 1906 when she was 25, but did not publish it until 1915. In 1912 she married brisk Editor...
...doctor, since she was six years old. Now, when he is home from the war, with his college career broken off, with his father urging him to become a doctor and his mother after him to join the church, their love affair has grown into a deeper companionship. He also likes to talk to her. Strange Fruit begins (and reaches its most moving passages) with Nonnie's discovery that she is pregnant and that she wants to bear Tracy's child. Miss Smith handles well the scenes in the Anderson household, their pride in Nonnie as the most...
They live the life of exiles, lonely, with almost no mail and no contact with readers, with an occasional visit to a nightclub, a frequent afternoon horseback ride in Chapultepec Park, with almost no social life and with the unremitting hunger for intellectual companionship that lives with exiles like an uninvited guest...
People who do not get seasick find seasickness uproariously funny. People who do get seasick want to die. Wit is no longer witty, companionship no longer desirable. They want to be alone. Then they want something to hang on to while they go through the misery of turning themselves inside out. When they are convalescent, they feel at peace. But sometimes it takes a long time to convalesce...
...Bull received 50-odd years of public homage. Statesmen like Henry Clay, authors like William Dean Howells, Mark Twain and Thackeray basked in his companionship. Longfellow and Joaquin Miller wrote poems about him. Women begged for samples of his bath water. Sixteen-year-old Queen Isabella of Spain offered him a generalship in her army...