"Lady friend" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... made them the heroes of the army, to the disgust of the "Veterans" of the old Stonewall Brigade. Our course was now westward, and Milroy, who was too strong for General Ed. Johnson in the Alleghanies, was the object. About twenty miles west of Staunton was the home of a young lady friend, and, on learning that our road lay within four miles of it, I determined at least to try to see her. Sergeant Clem. Fishburne, who was related to the family, expected to go with me, but at the last moment gave it up, so I went alone. ...
— The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson • Edward A. Moore
... the matter of secrecy, the bird is not particular as to material, so that it be of the nature of strings or threads. A lady friend once told me that, while she was working by an open window, one of these birds approached while her back was turned, and, seizing a skein of some kind of thread or yarn, made off with it to its half-finished nest. But the perverse yarn caught fast in the branches, and, in the ...
— Bird Stories from Burroughs - Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs • John Burroughs
... matters that a gentleman forgets, In a little world of giggles and of tears; There are different varieties from which a man may choose, There are sorts and shapes and sizes without end, But the kind I'd pick myself is the kind you introduce By the simple title of 'my lady friend.' " ...
— The Lunatic at Large • J. Storer Clouston
... not. Your lady friend gives you a clean bill of health. She may or may not be lying. I'm not so sure myself. But without her ...
— Mavericks • William MacLeod Raine
... a lady friend of mine who had been ill for a good ten years read La Maitrise de soi-meme. I encouraged her as well as I could, and in a month she was transformed. Her husband, returning from a long journey, could not believe his eyes. ...
— The Practice of Autosuggestion • C. Harry Brooks
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