intimate friend

"New York is not a city in which you make a great many intimate friends."

I should say not more than three or four people could call themselves his intimate friends.

A thousand or so of his intimate friends turned up.

Within the family and among intimate friends, he was always called 'Tom'.

He had no intimate friends among those of his age who attended the school.

Beside his children and wife, he seems to have only two intimate friends.

When a person died at home, family members and intimate friends gathered around the death bed.

When the day of the first test arrived Tom allowed only his most intimate friends to be present.

They could tell only their spouses or an intimate friend.

My time is nearly all devoted to some very intimate friends.

You were intimate friends with the daughter of your lover?

Of course you will not mention even to the most intimate friend, that I have seen the article.

The two remained very close, as if they were intimate friends rather than simply political colleagues.

He was an intimate friend of mine, but we had an argument.

"At that time had he not one intimate friend among his companions who has recently died?"

He was some strange kind of personality, had a few intimate friends.

She had no idea whether it was to be a large gathering, or just a few intimate friends.

He was a few years older than Alexander, and his intimate friend since childhood.

Even among intimate friends, the question put to a driver who has been drinking is usually, "Are you all right?"

"Only his wife and a few intimate friends like myself knew about this," the governor admitted, in a low voice.

When visited, Armstrong says he has not seen his intimate friend.

The press said he was trying to promote an intimate friend as his successor.

Then when all were gone but intimate friends the conversation was carried on without noise.

In no time at all Alix became his intimate friend.

He was an intimate friend of mine, and a thoroughly good fellow.