Meanings of welcome friend in English

She started to fall back asleep, the coming blackness a welcome friend.

Irene was not a welcome friend, but she was a helpful one.

The girl was quite at ease, now that this welcome friend had appeared opportunely.

The Abbé Plomb is a welcome friend at Solesmes.

I had not thought of her except as a welcome friend in a strange, cruel world.

And I call upon our ever welcome friend, General Horace Porter, for a response.]

Never a customer always a welcome friend.

Throwing etiquette to the wind, she flew down the stairway, and ran to meet her thrice- welcome friend.

The darkness cloaked them, a welcome friend.

She would be a most welcome friend, but I could not consent to using her time without paying for it.

Even this frozen old Socialist now appeared to him, for the first time, under the borrowed aspect of a welcome friend.

Though the fine weather did not last, it was a promise of better things, like the letter that precedes a welcome friend.

Fortunately there entered about tea-time a young man in much better spirits, evidently a welcome friend of Mrs. Clover's; his name was Nelson.

That they may come to have favourite and familiar associations connected with its name, and to look for it as for a welcome friend.

Why should not Faircloth, in future, come and go, if not as an acknowledged son, yet as acknowledged and welcome friend, of the house?

He spoke the language of the country, entered into the discussions on the principles of government, and was always a welcome friend at any election.