Music and books were his dearest companions - but those fair young ladies were never quite forgotten.

Oldest and dearest companion, fate has changed our roles.

She's my dearest companion.

Then he went below and whispered to his unnerved wife, "My dearest companion, you would not believe what has happened.

Death looms, but when hasn't it been her dearest companion?

For all of his gruffness and teasing, Bruenor Battlehammer had been the halfling's dearest companion.

His dearest companion is Fraz-Urb'luu.

You're my dearest companion, the only one of my children left to me.

Papa, my father and Alexandra's dearest companion, died in December, slowly killed by heart disease.

Now a widow, Esther continued to run the farm and raise her children alone, without her "dearest companion and bosom friend".