"I'd like to know who Helen sees and, to the extent possible, who Barry's closer friends are."

He told his closer friends at the Church that he could not conscientiously perform the service as it stood.

And he had held the heads of closer friends on his lap, men he knew far better than Miscolo.

At Göttingen Samuel Coleridge was one of his closer friends.

He said he had no personal dislike for Chechens, and counted one among his closer friends.

"True, but she's been one of his closer friends on the ship."

Appleton and his obviously closer friend had a strength about them absent in the other two, a sense of assurance, of conviction somehow.

Historically, we have had no closer friends and allies.

The issue of authorship of the speech has lead to a public falling out between the two former closer friends.

She'd stopped in from time to time during her college years, knowing she wouldn't run into her aunt or any of Adelaide's closer friends.