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Bed-fellow: I know brother you and your Scholer wil lie together; but where shal we meet to morrow night? for my friend
The Compleat Angler 2007
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The Maoris had chants about it, and in their legends it was described as “Bed-fellow of earth-shaking thunder.”
The Romance of a Pro-Consul Milne, James, 1865- 1911
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The Maoris had chants about it, and in their legends it was described as "Bed-fellow of earth-shaking thunder."
The Romance of a Pro-Consul Being The Personal Life And Memoirs Of The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, K.C.B. James Milne 1908
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As the hugging and loving Bed-fellow sleeps at my side through the night, and withdraws at the peep of the day, with stealthy tread,
Walt Whitman 1900
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Why, said Dame, with an amorous Glance, I think verily I should accept of yourself for a second Bed-fellow.
Zadig Or, The Book of Fate 1694-1778 Voltaire 1736
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He likewise advises her what Bargain to make, and if it happens to be an Indian Trader that wants a Bed-fellow, and has got Rum to sell, be sure, the King must have a large Dram for a Fee, to confirm the Match.
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The English Traders are seldom without an Indian Female for his Bed-fellow, alledging these Reasons as sufficient to allow of such a Familiarity.
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I question not but you have heard your old Bed-fellow Mrs. F.G. hath lately entertained a new one, being married to a Gentleman, as deserving in excellency of parts as nobility of birth; I long to hear of the like in you whose good fortunes shall always be attended with the greatest acclamations of joy which can proceed from
The Gentlewoman's Companion: or,%0AA Guide to the Female Sex 1675
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A match: Come _Coridon_, you are to be my Bed-fellow: I know brother you and your Scholer wil lie together; but where shal we meet to morrow night? for my friend _Coridon_ and I will go up the water towards _Ware_.
The Complete Angler 1653 Izaak Walton 1638
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The Tincture consists only in the _Spirit of Copper_, and most of all in that of his Bed-fellow; it is a meer Vapour, stinking and ill-sented in its beginning; this Mist must be dissolved in the manner of a Liquor, that the stinking, incombustible Oil may be prepared thereof; but yet it must have and take its beginning out of _Mars_; this Oil unites freely with the Spirit of _Mercury_, assuming all Metallick Bodies speedily unto them, if they be first prepared in all points as I have advised in my Keys.
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