Initially Ender believes Graff is a potential friend and ally, unaware of the fact Graff believes Ender is Earth's last great hope in defending from a Formic attack.

Bean and his friend Petra, who also served under Ender and who is travelling with Bean, have both seen Achilles so and immediately go into hiding, preparing for a future confrontation.

During her early years, Valentine serves as a friend and protector for Ender, whom Peter torments because he is jealous of their close relationship.

Soon after, Ender wrote a biography called " Life of Human " in memory of his friend.

He bought out Pike with finance from another Irish friend, Mary Wiggin, and later bought her out, borrowing the money from Barclays Bank.

" She is treated relatively inconsiderately by Bean, who appears to regard her more as a friend and companion than a love interest.

Rupert is a friend of Mr. Bean who only appeared in " Do it Yourself Mr. Bean ".

Hubert is another friend of Mr. Bean who also appeared in " Do it yourself Mr. Bean ".

* Sean Bean as Odysseus He is the king of Ithaca and friend of Achilles.

It is suggested that Achilles is not aware at this point that Bean thinks him an enemy, as he is not aware that Bean knows he killed Bean's friend, Poke.

The note is addressed to his childhood imaginary friend, and gives his reasons for leaving Nirvana, followed by a message to his wife, Courtney Love, and to his daughter, Frances Bean Cobain.

Later, Anton was able to give Sister Carlotta, friend and mother-figure to Bean, information about Bean's condition ; she passed the information on to Graff, and eventually Bean himself.

She was also responsible for reuniting Bean with his mother and father, who ( by coincidence ) were the parents of Bean's best friend Nikolai Delphiki.

Taylor leaves behind her friend Lou Ann Ruiz ( from The Bean Trees ) and her new boyfriend Jax, and sets out with Turtle.

Along the way to their next destination, Mr. Fox runs into his friend Badger and permits him to accompany him on his mission, and the group proceeds to tunnel to Bunce's farm and then to Bean's cider cellar ( where they are nearly discovered by a hired woman named Mabel when she enters the room to collect a few jars of apple cider for Bean ).

One of the early slogans was Your flexible friend ( which was featured in an episode of Mr. Bean ); another slogan which featured in a television advertisement was Does you does, or does you don't take Access?

`` Now that Bruno Walter is virtually in retirement and my dear friend Dimitri Mitropoulos is no longer with us, I am probably the only one -- with the possible exception of Leonard Bernstein -- who has this special affinity for and champions the works of Bruckner and Mahler ''.

In order to exonerate himself, he is compelled to find the real criminal, who happens to be his girl friend.

He is proud of having Segovia for a friend and dedicated a poem to him titled `` The Guitar ''.

Such, he implies, is the case with his friend, who is not really a new convert himself but merely a favorer of new converts.

His neighbors celebrated his return, even if it was only temporary, and Morgan was especially gratified by the quaint expression of an elderly friend, Isaac Lane, who told him, `` A man that has so often left all that is dear to him, as thou hast, to serve thy country, must create a sympathetic feeling in every patriotic heart ''.

He is said to have reported that once, when she went to a hospital to call on a friend after a serious operation, and the friend protested that it had been `` nothing '', she replied, `` Well, it was your healthy American peasant blood that pulled you through ''.

I called the other afternoon on my old friend, Graves Moreland, the Anglo-American literary critic -- his mother was born in Ohio -- who lives alone in a fairy-tale cottage on the Upson Downs, raising hell and peacocks, the former only when the venerable gentleman becomes an angry old man about the state of literature or something else that is dwindling and diminishing, such as human stature, hope, and humor.

My unscientific friend does not believe that human stature is measurable in terms of speed, momentum, weightlessness, or distance from earth, but is a matter of the development of the human mind.

disturbing, as when one says that a friend is acting funny ; ;

Psychical blindness is a condition in which there is a total absence of visual memory-images, a condition in which, for example, one is unable to remember something just seen or to conjure up a memory-picture of the visible appearance of a well-known friend in his absence.

`` Look, my friend '', he said, `` in my life I learn, how is it the proverb says, better an ounce of prevention to a pound of cure.

I tell you, I know how it is with you, my friend, I sympathize, and I'll make it a special point -- a special favor -- get in touch, and get some stuff just for you.

`` Black is Gilborn's best friend ''.

The gentle Channing, revered by all Bostonians, orthodox or Unitarian, wrote to a friend in Louisville that among its many virtues Boston did not abound in a tolerant spirit, that the yoke of opinion crushed individuality of judgment and action: `` No city in the world is governed so little by a police, and so much by mutual inspections and what is called public sentiment.

James, he remarks in a letter to a friend, `` is attempting the impossible namely, to produce upon the reader, as a painting produces upon the gazer, a number of superimposed, simultaneous impressions.

it is when I meet someone who was a close friend of the family, and therefore of mine, and they nod to me so coolly and walk away, that it hurts.

But, my friend, to speak the broken English is an enormous asset.

Likewise, it is Miss Marple herself who poses as a maid to find out the facts of the case, not a young friend of hers who has made a business of it.

Davis was to be a lifelong friend and confidante, always ready to give sound advice during the important decisions of Elizabeth ’ s career.

A State Department friend of Capra asked him and explained why his trip would be important:

Giovanni Boccaccio (; 1313 – 21 December 1375 ) was an Italian author and poet, a friend, student, and correspondent of Petrarch, an important Renaissance humanist and the author of a number of notable works including the Decameron, On Famous Women, and his poetry in the Italian vernacular.

This includes his reluctance to resolve a dispute between Leonidas Polk, a personal friend, and Braxton Bragg, who was defeated in important battles and distrusted by his subordinates.

The headmaster's son, Charles Cowden Clarke, also became an important mentor and friend, introducing Keats to Renaissance literature, including Tasso, Spenser, and Chapman's translations.

Jean is an important figure in the lives of other Marvel universe characters, mostly the X-Men, including her husband Cyclops ; her mentor and father-figure Charles Xavier ; her close friend and sometimes romantic interest Wolverine ; her best friend and sister-like figure Storm ; and her genetic children Rachel Summers, X-Man, Cable, and Stryfe.

Paul Euler was a friend of the Bernoulli family — Johann Bernoulli, who was then regarded as Europe's foremost mathematician, would eventually be the most important influence on young Leonhard.

October 8 BC ) was an ally, friend and political advisor to Octavian ( who was to become the first Emperor of Rome as Caesar Augustus ) as well as an important patron for the new generation of Augustan poets.

As a military commander and administrator, he was an important supporter and loyal friend of his mother's cousin Julius Caesar.

Once they reach it, Miller locates a friend of Ryan's, who reveals that Ryan is defending a strategically important bridge over the Merderet River in the town of Ramelle.

" Jazz Me Blues " was also important because it introduced what has been called the " correlated chorus ," a method of improvising that Beiderbecke's Davenport friend Esten Spurrier attributed to both Beiderbecke and Armstrong.

He later continued studying in Vienna with Georg Joseph Vogler, known as Abbé Vogler, founder of three important music schools ( in Mannheim, Stockholm, and Darmstadt ); another famous pupil of Vogler was Giacomo Meyerbeer, who became a close friend of Weber.

Gertrude Chataway ( 1866 – 1951 ) was the most important child friend in the life of the author, after Alice Liddell.

Enrico's grandfather, Enrico Berlinguer Sr., was the founder of La Nuova Sardegna, an important Sardinian newspaper, and a personal friend of Giuseppe Garibaldi and Giuseppe Mazzini, whom he had helped in his attempts through his parliamentary work to improve the sad conditions on the island.

During the war, the most important Swedish commanders besides Charles XII were his close friend Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld, also Magnus Stenbock and Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt.

By a stroke of good fortune, another friend of Skouloudis, a Swedish captain, was leaving his job as representative of arms manufacturer Thorsten Nordenfelt ’ s company for a more important posting.

Sutcliffe's input was, however, an important early influence on the development of the band's image ; Sutcliffe was the first to wear what would later become famous as The Beatles ' moptop hairstyle, asking his girlfriend Astrid Kirchherr to cut his hair in emulation of the hairdo worn by friend Klaus Voormann.

* Septimus Hodge: Thomasina's tutor and the academic colleague and friend of Lord Byron ( an unseen but important character in the play ).

It was not until he showed the finished play to a friend that he found out the old book he had based it on was historically incorrect in certain important aspects.

The most important of these include Nozomi Harasaki, a childhood friend who is romantically interested in Ryo, and Master Chen Yeo Wen, who guides Ryo on his quest.

Thus she is the most important friend of Krishna, ' His heart and soul ', and His ' hladini-shakti ' ( mental companion potency ).

" His most important friend from this period was Gertrude Stein, who was an artistic collaborator and mentor to him.

He became a close friend of Henry Brougham, who was an important source of information for Barnes's leading articles.

Louis B. Mayer, his co-founding partner at Metro Goldwyn Mayer, said he had lost " the finest friend a man could ever have ," while MGM president Nicholas Schenck stated that " Thalberg was the most important man in the production end of the motion-picture industry.