He was a man, those neighbors testified later, who didn't have a friend in the world.

I persuaded an Australian friend who had lived `` outback '' for years to take me to see some aborigines living in the bush.

`` 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 ''.

`` As an independent American I considered all who were not for us, and you amongst the rest, as against us, yet be assured that John Jay never ceased to be the friend of Peter Van Schaack ''.

A dear, respected friend of mine, who like myself grew up in the South and has spent many years in New England, said to me not long ago: `` I can't forgive New England for rejecting all complicity ''.

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

so Cyrus Adler became interested in her friend Racie Friedenwald, and Joe Jastrow -- the only young man who when he wrote had the temerity to address her as Henrietta, and signed himself Joe -- fell in love with pretty sister Rachel.

It purports to be a letter from Steele to a friend at court, who, in Miss Blanchard's opinion, could only be meant as Swift.

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

Another good friend of the Coolidges' was George B. Harvey, who was the Ambassador to Great Britain from 1921 to 1923.

He was universally beloved by his neighbours, and the Indians, who esteemed him, not only as a friend, but one high in communion with God in Heaven ''.

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 ''.

The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.

He said he was a friend of Heywood Broun who had run a free employment bureau for several months during the depression, but the generous Broun to whom I wrote did not know his name and I somehow conceived the morbid notion that the man in question was prowling round the house.

Mr. Burlingham, -- `` C.C.B. '' -- wrote to me once about an old friend of mine, S. K. Ratcliffe, whom I had first met in London in 1914 and who also came out for a week-end in Weston.

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.

For Mrs. Shaefer -- who had been given a clean bill of health by her own physician at the time she visited Lee -- and her friend were agents for the California Pure Food and Drug Inspection Bureau.

And there was the case of Tom Hepker, a machinist, who was referred by a friend to a health machine quack who treated him with a so-called diagnostic machine for what Doctor Fraud said was a system full of arsenic and strychnine.

Still she would probably have sense enough not to call in the local sheriff to find her boy friend who, apparently, had run away.

I, who until that day before had been Mrs. Salter's friend, her equal, was the servant now.

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.

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.

Later, when Achilles dies, killed by Paris ( with help from Apollo ), Ajax and Odysseus are the heroes who fight against the Trojans to get the body and bury it next to his friend, Patroclus.

Unlike his younger brother, Joe, he never presumed to address her more familiarly than as `` My dear friend '', although he praised and envied the elegance and purity of her style.

In a letter to a friend, Erasmus once had written: " That you are patriotic will be praised by many and easily forgiven by everyone ; but in my opinion it is wiser to treat men and things as though we held this world the common fatherland of all.

Academy Award – winning director Alexander Payne praised her: " She's got that quality that men find attractive, while women would like to be her friend.

Another friend was the satirist Karl Immermann, who had praised Heine's first verse collection, Gedichte, when it appeared in December 1821.

" The pianist and singer Michael Feinstein, a friend of hers, praised her tenacity and talent in what at the time was a man's world.

There was a minor scandal in 1862 when Palgrave was commissioned to write a catalogue for the 1862 International Exhibition, in which he praised his friend the sculptor Thomas Woolner and denigrated other sculptors, especially Woolner's main rival Carlo Marochetti.

Sumner's friend Senator Carl Schurz praised Sumner's integrity, his " moral courage ", the " sincerity of his convictions ", and the " disinterestedness of his motives ".

Even the Vancouver Daily News-Advertiser ( today's Vancouver Sun ), which had been critical of his political career, praised David Oppenheimer as " the best friend Vancouver ever had.

During the campaign to keep the seat, Miller spoke warmly of his late friend Coverdell, praised Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush, and promised to work for bipartisanship in the Senate.

The feature of having two riders per kart was praised by Justin Leeper and Andy McNamara of Game Informer ; McNamara stated: " Giving the player control of two different characters is pretty cool in single-player, but add a friend on the back of your kart in multiplayer and it opens the game up like never before.

In the Senate, Obama praised Simon as a " dear friend.

Anatoly Chubais, the minister responsible for privatization in the early 1990s, who considers himself a friend of Gaidar, praised Gaidar as Russia's " savior ".

The reductions were considered by some philosophies as ideal communities of noble savages, and were praised as such by Montesquieu in his L ' Esprit des Lois ( 1748 ), and even by Rousseau, no friend of the church.

He has been praised for " defending the little man " and called " a friend to the oppressed and marginalised.

Edward Ardizzone's pictures concentrated entirely on soldiers relaxing or performing routine duties, and were praised by many soldiers: " He is the only person who has caught the atmosphere of this war " felt Douglas Cooper, the art critic and historian, friend of Picasso, and then in a military medical unit.

By 1870, Marx had embraced Dietzgen as a friend, and later praised him and his theory of dialectical materialism in the 2nd edition of the first volume of Das Kapital.

The Sanskritist Max Müller also praised Canton's works, writing that " I look upon them as equal to Matthew Arnold's poems, and having been an old friend and sincere admirer of Arnold, I could give no higher praise ".

He was also both widely criticized and praised by the Spanish public for refusing to dedicate a bull to King Juan Carlos de Bourbon, dedicating it instead to his friend, " El Bote ", a fellow bullfighter who had just been hospitalized after an encounter with a bull.

" In his response, President Clinton praised Morris as a " friend ", and thanked him for his years of service.

This originated as a school to teach crafts to disadvantaged children and became widely known when it was praised by Oscar Wilde, who predicted his friend would be " recognised and honoured as one of the great pioneers and leaders of the art of the future.

Johann Peter Salomon, the great friend and patron of Haydn — who had formerly played with Franz Anton Ries in the court orchestra at Bonn — included Ries regularly in his Philharmonic concert series, where a review praised his " romantic wildness ".

Mr. and Mrs. Washington enjoyed their trip, especially upon seeing their friend, Henry Tanner, an African American artist, being praised by all classes.

" A friend, who praised Harris as " universally esteemed as an honest man " but disagreed with his religious affiliation, declared that Harris ' mind " was overbalanced by ' marvellousness '" and that his belief in earthly visitations of angels and ghosts gave him the local reputation of being crazy.

However, after seeing Skull perform at a recital, Bulk was honestly moved and praised his friend.