He only will please long, who, by tempering the acidity of satire with the sugar of civility, and allaying the heat of wit with the frigidity of humble chat, can make the true punch of conversation; and, as that punch can be drunk in the greatest quantity which has the largest proportion of water, so that companion will be oftenest welcome, whose talk flows out with inoffensive copiousness, and unenvied insipidity.

Cobden's chief companion in the struggle was John Bright, whose name has been completely identified with that of Cobden in the repeal of the Corn Laws.

But his most constant companion was a Pomeranian dog; in dogs indeed he found comfort all his life, right to the end.

I asked why. 'Because,' replied he, 'when a soldier is caught beating a horse, he has eight days of salle de police.' Man and donkey having disappeared into a wood, my next companion was a small blue butterfly that kept a few yards in front of me, now stopping to look at a flower, now fluttering on again.

His bird companions are Snowbirds, Horned Larks, Crossbills, and Pine Grosbeaks; and he trembles lest the Great Gray Owl shall find his nestlings.

The Companion would be the periodical started by Leigh Hunt in 1828.

My new companion was a short-hand reporter of one of the London papers, and thoroughly acquainted in Westminster.

The consequences of the alternative so very disproportionate, I thought it more prudent to incur the censure, than to risque the inconvenience.' I told her that I was writing a long letter: that I should choose to write till I were sleepy, and that a companion would be a restraint upon me, and I upon her.

His companion this time was his mother's relative, John Hanks.

STOCKDALE's NEW COMPANION to the LONDON KALENDAR, and COURT and CITY REGISTER, for the Year 1783; being a List of all the CHANGES in ADMINISTRATION, from the Accession of the present King, in October 1760, to the present Time.

He was then not far from nine, and, though crippled by his disease, with his once beautiful face haggard with pain and no longer recognizable by those who had known him in his infancy, he was to me still the same,a dear and loving child, the companion of my fortunes at their worst; and his devotion to me was the chief thing of his life.

The companions are an old decayed gentlewoman housekeepera far away cousin of the squire'sand a young French child, Jane's pupil, Mr. Rochester's ward and reputed daughter.

The companion of his travels is some foul sun-burnt quean, that, since the terrible statute, recanted gipseyism and is turned pedlaress.

Her companions were frank and kind, Canadians, but her sort, and she was going to make a bold plunge with another who was not.

These companions were graduates of different schools, extremes of different nationalities.

My companion on this trip was a Norwegian named Nielsen.

I who speak to you am Sir Ector, surnamed de Maris, and this, my companion, is Sir Morganor of Lisle.

His unfortunate companion who had been shot, was a scout from Springfield, Missouri, whose name I cannot now remember.

She was not alone, and her companion was Chowles.

The most constant companion of this species is the Yellow Pine, and a worthy companion it is.

The man's musical inflection jarred on Gifford, who began to wonder whether their companion could be a professional singer.

Evil company marred her, may they justly complain, bad companions have been their bane.

His companions were the frost, the fluttering snowflake, the stinging hail.

You are the Earl of Rochester, and your companion is Sir George Etherege.

His companion was Strap.