Sentence examples for earliest friend from inspiring English sources

A childhood acquaintance ("my earliest friend") steals her food and regularly beats her silly.

By 1817, when he wrote his first letters to Pietro Giordani — a freethinking ex-monk who was his earliest friend and patron — Leopardi was already complaining of "the stubborn, black, horrendous, barbarous melancholy that wears away and devours me".

"He liked to say that he grew up in an insane asylum, and that his earliest friends were mental patients" Mr. Auster said.

One of Mr. Bergson's earliest friends there was David Raziel, who became the head of Irgun Zvai Leumi, the armed Jewish underground movement.

He began as a playwright and a man of the arts, and his earliest friends in the non-Communist West, back in cold war times, leaned in pacifist and anticapitalist directions, artsy-style.

Dr. Alan Rabinowitz: My earliest friends were animals.

In this way, you can make sure that your son's earliest friends will be good influences.

She tried to teach Mae Clarke (an early friend, eventually known for having a grapefruit shoved into her face by James Cagney in "The Public Enemy") how to nudge a date into buying her a coat.

What kept me at a distance from his work sometimes was what Anaïs Nin, an early friend of the author's, identified as a "frozen" aspect to his personality.

The black mane of his youth, with that celebrated lock of hair that fell over one eye — cutting his forehead "like a scar," as an early friend remarked — has long since disappeared.

Peter had been an early friend in America, made out of convenience when Bella first arrived, but he'd turned out to be a rarity, with a seemingly boundless memory.