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We all of us know men who never damn their servants, or any inferiors, or strangers, or women, -- who in fact keep it all for their bosom friends; and if a little does sometimes flow over in the freedom of domestic life, the wife is apt to remember that she is the bosomest of her husband's friends, and so to pardon the transgression.

The Prime Minister Anthony Trollope 1848

"Thompson," says Johnson, the young poet, when he has at last succeeded in getting the bosomest of his friends alone into his chamber with him, "have you happened to look at my Iphigenia yet?"

The Bertrams Anthony Trollope 1848