Sentence examples for affectionate friend from inspiring English sources

Your affectionate friend, LEWIS CARROLL.

Guy, though he was only twenty-nine, was like an uncle to Tony and to the younger children, Adreth and Small Bob, too, less a lodger than an affectionate friend of the family.

"My dear Fremantle If you don't come here on Sunday to Celebrate the Birthday of Santa Emma Damn me if I ever forgive you, so much from your affectionate Friend as you behave on this occasion".Also published for the first time is the written battle plan for the Nile campaign of 1798.

He was lucky in the quality of his upbringing and education, lucky, also, to find a home at The New Yorker for work that might have seemed difficult and obscure; he was lucky in love a number of times — his second wife, Helen, especially, emerges in these pages as a wise and affectionate friend throughout his life.

From 1760 to 1762, Jefferson attended William and Mary College and there befriended Professor William Small, "a man profound in most of the useful branches of science" ([Au]: 4), lawyer George Wythe, "beloved Mentor in youth, and my most affectionate friend through life" ([Au]: 4 5), and Lieutenant Governor Francis Fauquier.

Queen Victoria held Abu Bakar in very high esteem, which she had signed herself off as an "affectionate friend" in a letter to Abu Bakar in March 1891.

As a result, her room in the hospice where she eventually died was constantly crowded with affectionate friends, laughing and sipping champagne.

Semiliteracy often produces epitaphs that are comic through grammatical accident for example, "Erected to the memory of / John MacFarlane / Drowned in the Water of Leith / By a few affectionate friends".

At times, rather than seeming like a circle of affectionate friends, they look like beauty pageant contestants (men and women alike), strutting across the stage and vamping hard when they get their moment in the spotlight.

"Nonsexual intimacy" might characterize the type of relations asexuals seek, and there are plenty of sites that make it easier for asexual-identified persons to "hook up" with one another: Affectionate Friends, Asexual Pals, Celibate Passions, and Platonic Partners, to name a few.

There's a distinction between the Beryl Bainbridge who writes these astonishing novels and the affectionate, tactile friend that she is.