bosom friend
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"There's something horrible in the world," said Spinster Margaret to her bosom friend, Spinster Emily, as they sat together in their snug, rich home in the suburb of Wedgewood.
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But most of the new material consists of Author Gogarty's telling a lot more stories about his bosom friend Dr. Gogarty.
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R�camier became the bosom friend of the detested Mme. de Sta�l, thus forming an "alliance of two weak creatures who face their oppressors together."
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Mary Dempsey, who changed her name to Beatricci D'Este and finally settled for Mary Desti, was the bosom friend of Isadora Duncan.
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So she went straight to her bosom friend, Pheoby Watson, and told her about it.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
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