Word: bedfellow
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1991-1991
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...During the night of Feb. 2-3, 1990, masked men surprised six unarmed guards watching a storeroom in Herculaneum, ancient Pompeii's bedfellow in fate when Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79. After breaking through a wall, the thieves took four hours to select 223 of the most precious antiquities, as if they had a dealer's catalog in hand. Estimated value: $18 million. None of the relics have resurfaced...
...fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen." A century after Emerson, his heirs have decided that self-fortification can come through sex -- gay or straight, married or un-. Today's Romantics say, with Walt Whitman, "God comes a loving bedfellow and sleeps at my side all night...