Buford liked the rough physical contact of football and the close companionship offered by the other players on the team.

There was a great and close companionship here, but the quarters were confining.

Birds of such close companionship surely experience deep deprivation when caged alone.

Both went back to work in self-absorbed silence, but experiencing close companionship.

Having no wish for close human companionship, he made no friends among the other trainees who came to the island.

Thus began the close companionship of the forest hearth which we were to enjoy through the season of warmth.

But if it does, no doubt you will enjoy the close companionship of your friends.

"Now then, cousin," she said, and for the first time wished the term spoke to a genuine family relationship rather than just one of close companionship.

That lack of close companionship is not an indication that anything is wrong.

In all the past years, with the constant opportunity which friendship gave of close companionship, the feeling never altered.