What is "companionship"

Usage examples of "companionship".

I could not have made it, had I not believed that it would be the means of drawing new readers to Boswell, and eventually of finding for them in the complete work what many have already found-- days and years of growing enlightenment and happy companionship, and an innocent refuge from the cares and perturbations of life.

In the former instance they had the companionship of the cowman and veteran hunter, while now they could not know whether he was within a half-dozen miles of them.

Rendelsham as Granddam Zazar had instructed him, or even to the Oakenkeep, he had gone south to New Void, wanting the companionship of blood kindred.

What she likes is to have you near her, the personality interest, the warmth of the companionship and understanding, the being loved, the not being lonely.

Sometimes it seemed Sahra could exist in a world of books and never need human companionship- or realize Marita might need her companionship.

Ivan Nikolaev, two houses, in truth, which, neighbors, had leaned together for warmth and companionship years ago and finally grown together the year his own parents died, leaving him to the Nikolaevs and their kin.

We take cash, Visa, and MasterCard, no AmEx, and we offer both male and female escorts for nonsexual outcall companionship.

The best features of the institution were its unbounded freedom, the close democratic companionship of the students, the affectionate attachments formed, and the tremendous interest we took in the meetings of the Philomathean society for debates, and the reading of essays and poetry, exhibited also in a lesser degree in the Saturday declamations and compositions.

When not driven by the demands of reproduction, male mammoths tended to form small herds with loose ties for companionship.

He has not become rooted and grounded anywhere, has never established a home, is not of any locality or of any class, has no fixed relation to Church or State, to professional, political, or social life, has acquired none of that companionship and confidence which unites old neighbors in the closest ties, and give to friendship its fullest development, its most gracious attributes.

It was probable, Alethia considered, that Robert came into the last category, in which case she was certain to enjoy the companionship of one or two excellent women, and might possibly catch glimpses of undesirable adventuresses or come face to face with reckless admiration-seeking married women.

He no longer had to go round to the back of the hotel to sit with the kitchen help and chambermaids for companionship.

I should scarcely consider it proper to expose Miss Chubb to the hospitality of a single man, without other women, and I cannot understand how she could leave the companionship and protection of your lovely sisters.

I cannot lead away from those familiar days without speaking of other companionships which that valley furnished beyond those intimated-- companionships which did not interfere with the rough frontier fellowships that made democracy possible.

It is not that the scholar mimics in writing the phrases he has read, but that he can neither think, feel, nor express himself as he might have done, had his mental companionship been of a lower order.