As Basil was an old friend of the hostess and I had never seen her, I felt that it was quite possible that he (with his usual social sagacity) might have decided to take me along in order to break the ice.
It was a small and confidential affair at the table of a good but unconventional political lady, anold friend of his.
I returned to Leavenworth to prepare for the wedding, which took place at the home of an old friend, Thomas Plowman, his daughter Emma having been my chum in girlhood.
Men tell me you have no soul; but if there be a heaven, and scouts can enter there, I'll wait at the gate for you, old friend.
Come, old friend, take a drink of this to steady you.
In the end he was forced to ask Gabilonda plainly if he would not take him to see David Henderson, as he knew a man in Arizona who was an old friend of his, and he would like to be able to tell him that he had seen his friend.
This time it happens to be Mickey O'Halloran, an old friend of mine.
I asked him what I had to do with this business, that I, a peaceful traveller and an old friend of the Zulus, should be made prisoner and dragged off to Ulundi.
By the way it was while I was waiting on the banks of the river that I came across an old friend of mine, a Zulu named Magepa, with whom I had fought at the battle of the Tugela.
Mr. Wickfield was the Doctor's old friend, and the Doctor wished to talk with him, and do him good.
It singularly happened that on the first day my father went out with me, he encountered an old friend.
It was at once answered by the appearance of an old friend, his valet, Matvey, carrying his clothes, his boots, and a telegram.
Smiling and showing her false teeth, she greeted him as an old friend.
Thank you, old friend; you have given me an idea already," I said to Benjamin.
I accepted my old friend's invitation to return with him to St. John's Wood, and to make my luncheon at his early dinner.
Before I reached the gate, however, a messenger, I remember it was my old friend Kambula, overtook me, and said that the king wished to speak with me alone.
Leaving the rest of the meal unswallowed, I went to the doorway of the yard and there found my old friend, Kambula.
I hoped you would be glad to shake hands with an old friend.
It had been an old, old friend of Tom's; a kind companion to him, many and many a day.
I shouldn't wish it to be mentioned; you will understand me; but I say to you as to an old friend, they lie.
My old friend John, who might so easily have treated me with coldness and neglect, is he less cordial to me?
Ralph sprang to his feet as he said the word, and cried out eagerly: "Old friend, and where then wert thou bred and born?
The day after his departure from Paris, he was left at Chartres, at the house of an old friend D'Artagnan had met with in an hotelier of that city.
Besides, what can be more permissible than to write to anold friend of twelve years' standing, particularly when the letter begins with the words 'Monsieur Raoul'?
At all events," said the bishop, "you have assumed a singular traveling costume, old friend.
In the meantime you have recognised her also, but you are not a relative--you are not even an old friendof the family.
I should then have done all that a man in my position could do to serve the interests of my old friend's only child.
I hope my old friend is not in trouble--nor his daughter," and there was a new quality in the voice.
Miss Viola said you were an old friend of her father's, and if any one could solve the mystery of his death you could.
Well, I am deeply shocked at my old friend's death--and such a tragic taking off.
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