I would have foregone my romantic chances rather than leave a friend sweltering and dusty and -- Well, at least I wouldn't have shouted back a taunt.

`` 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 ''.

Faced with a gesture like Di Bosis', I find usually that my sentiments are closer to those of my sculptor friend.

Her mother, now dead, was my good friend and when she came to tell us about her plans and to show off her ring I had a sobering wish to say something meaningful to her, something her mother would wish said.

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.

`` 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.

I don't know if I can manage it tonight or tomorrow, but I'll try my best, my friend.

`` I do my best '', said Mr. Skyros earnestly, `` just for you, my friend.

I introduced my friend Larry to Pops and we made ourselves comfortable.

And so I was really upset the first time I discovered that my boy friend Johnnie was seeing Mrs. Warren.

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

:" I had called in at my friend Poirot's rooms to find him sadly overworked.

According to the story recounted by Hermippus, he arrived at the house of Solon and said, " I have traveled here from afar to make you my friend.

** My " friend " just told the whole school my secret.

" Italy ", says he, in writing of the occurrence to a friend, " Italy is my country – is the country and native soil of the arts.

a barátomtól jövök-I am coming ( away from ) my friend.

In a 1958 letter to a friend in West Germany, Paternak wrote, " She was put in jail on my account, as the person considered by the secret police to be closest to me, and they hoped that by means of a grueling interrogation and threats they could extract enough evidence from her to put me on trial.

A woman doctor wrote to a friend in June 1933 that she had not yet become a cannibal, but was “ not sure that I shall not be one by the time my letter reaches you .” The good people died first.

He was the best drummer I had ever played with and for many years, my closest friend.

While his parents and older siblings left for England in April and May that year, Charles remained in Scotland, with his father's friend and the Lord President of the Court of Session, Alexander Seton, Lord Fyvie, appointed as his guardian.

Newton returned to Liverpool, England and, partly due to the influence of his father's friend Joseph Manesty, obtained a position as first mate aboard the slave ship Brownlow, bound for the West Indies via the coast of Guinea.

At age thirteen, he transferred to a school in Barcelona run by his father's card-playing friend Father Mossen Josep, where he remained for three years.

His step-daughter Fosca was in fact joyfully writing a letter to an English friend of the family, Sibyl Seligman, telling her that the cancer was shrinking when she was called to her father's bedside because of the heart attack.

George ultimately decides to marry Amelia against his father's will, pressured by his friend Dobbin, and George is consequently disinherited.

Obedient daughter, warm friend, sweet sister, but lonely under her father's tyranny.

Always of precarious health herself – she is said to have had tuberculosis – she was too weak to prepare her father's papers for publication, so she delegated the task to a family friend, Reverend William Stephens.

After his father's death, the nine-year-old Sherman was raised by a Lancaster neighbor and family friend, attorney Thomas Ewing, a prominent member of the Whig Party who served as senator from Ohio and as the first Secretary of the Interior.

His father's friend, Sir Henry Wotton, was then the provost of the college.

He initially wants to join the Imperial Academy to become an Imperial pilot with his childhood friend Biggs Darklighter, but is held back by his uncle who ostensibly needs his help on the moisture farm ( while in reality, he hoped to prevent Luke from following his father's path to corruption ).

In his youth, Arkan was a ward of his father's friend, the Slovenian politician and Federal Minister of the Interior, Stane Dolanc.

Junior Senator Smith is taken under the wing of the publicly esteemed, but secretly crooked, Senator Joseph Paine ( Claude Rains ), who was Smith's late father's oldest and best friend.

In Paris, August met his father's old friend, Louis Nivelon, in Paris who provided him with friendship, meals, and entree into society.

Little information is available on how Wolfgang took Leopolds ' death, but a postscript he included in a letter to his friend Gottfried von Jacquin suggests that, despite the quarrels and partial estrangement, his father's death was a blow to him: " I inform you that on returning home today I received the sad news of my most beloved father's death.

Coming to the throne at age nine, his reign began with immediate civil war between his designated regent, his father's friend John Kantakouzenos, and a self-proclaimed council of regency composed of his mother Anna, the patriarch John XIV Kalekas, and the megas doux Alexios Apokaukos.

Lina is convinced that her father's friend is innocent.

Lina's feelings of loyalty to her father's friend, combined with an attraction to Kemp, confuses her.

Macaria flees with her siblings and her father's old friend Iolaus to Athens, where they are received by Demophon, the king.

He was named after a friend of his father's, the painter and sculptor Edwin Henry Landseer.

At his father's wake Falco discovers that he is to become a brother yet again when Thalia, an old friend he met in Venus in Copper, Last Act in Palmyra and Alexandria, reveals that she is expecting a child – she claims by Geminus.

Woolsey had been Dwight's father's Yale classmate, roommate, and intimate friend.

Captain Abraham Bristow named them " Lord Auckland's " on 18 August 1806 in honour of his father's friend William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland.

" Blackwell gained an introduction to Stone through his late father's friend William Lloyd Garrison, proposing marriage to her within an hour of their first meeting.