Companions

Examples

• Ebrington and I were excellent companions. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• My parents were indulgent, and my companions amiable. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I urged my companions to prepare for the wreck of our little skiff, and to bind themselves to some oar or spar which might suffice to float them. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• You propose, replied I, to fly from the habitations of man, to dwell in those wilds where the beasts of the field will be your only companions. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• He amazed and horrified his five companions by demanding ordinary food and refusing to continue his self-mortifications. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He walked on first, carrying a part of the fishing tackle, and his companions followed him at some distance. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• We will endeavour to do our duty by her, and she will, at least, have the advantage of companions of her own age, and of a regular instructress. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Ralph and I were inseparable companions. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• It was late in the evening when Mr. Pickwick and his companions, assisted by Sam, dismounted from the roof of the Eatanswill coach. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• School children amuse themselves by reflecting sunbeams from a mirror into their companions' faces. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The dressmaker, with her hands still clasped, looked affrightedly from the one to the other of her two companions. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It was on one particular afternoon that Mr Chivery surprised him all at once, and stood forth from his companions in bold relief. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Eustacia, warmed with an inner fire, could not wait for her companions after this. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• And so he bids him and his companions depart, just as any other father might drive out of the house a riotous son and his undesirable associates. Plato. The Republic.
• After the tumultuous emotions of the day, I was glad to find on my arrival at the inn that my companions had retired to rest. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It is as good as any, replied one of his companions. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• After passing several hours, we returned hopeless, most of my companions believing it to have been a form conjured by my fancy. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• His companions did not reply at once. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The next Legree heard of his mother was, when, one night, as he was carousing among drunken companions, a letter was put into his hand. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• And a State may get on without cobblers; but when the guardians degenerate into boon companions, then the ruin is complete. Plato. The Republic.
• It was a long, long time before my darling girl and I were companions again. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• With great indignation did he continue to observe him; with great alarm and distrust, to observe also his two blinded companions. Jane Austen. Emma.
• They retreated, and, joining others of their companions, still fell back, till they reached the main body. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The old man had, in the mean time, been pensive; but, on the appearance of his companions, he assumed a more cheerful air, and they sat down to eat. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• We shall see that presently, said the robber; and, speaking to his companions, he added, bring along the knave. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Thomas Blanchard, born in Massachusetts in 1788, while a boy, was accustomed to astonish his companions by the miniature wind-wheels and water-wheels that he whittled out with his knife. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I looked round at my two companions. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Some years later he was informed that both his companions had gone to Vera Cruz, Mexico, and had died there of yellow fever. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This favoured tavern, sacred to the evening orgies of Mr. Lowten and his companions, was what ordinary people would designate a public-house. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• He staggered back and jostled his two companions just as they were both rushing at me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

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