constant friend

To some it was just a beautiful tree, but to others the 200-year-old sycamore represented the beginnings of married life, a place of treasured family time, or a constant friend.

“Daniel was always the constant friend to me,” Ms. Ratmansky said.

He has also cozied up to China, presenting it as a more constant friend than the United States, which once colonized the Philippines.

And my constant friend, here on the piano, is Schubert’s “Winterreise,” which I hope to be recording for Deutsche Grammophon.

Sister Marie had become a constant friend, a constant listener.