Fortunately, their landlady, a retired schoolmistress, warmly welcomes and befriends them. |
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On New Year's Eve he meets their mother at a dinner party and subsequently befriends the family. |
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When a girl from the Bronx moves in next door and befriends her, Mooney's outlook changes. |
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Both Harriet and William strike the reader as somewhat eccentric, the sort of neighbors or colleagues one tolerates but befriends only warily. |
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Then she befriends her family's prisoner, and he shows her that a kite can fly. |
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He befriends this young boy, who hopes to remain friends following their hospital stay. |
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But gradually, he makes his way in a small Southern town where he gets a job as a mechanic, and befriends a young boy who is also an outsider. |
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Things actually become worse when Emily befriends an imaginary friend whose erratic behavior eventually turns murderous. |
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On a mission to win Mrs. Creswell over for Raymond, Archie befriends the elderly woman and the two become close pals. |
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Guilt-ridden, Lou befriends Sally by handling the funeral arrangements and charming her with an expensive dinner. |
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Abu, an African tribesman, befriends Harry after saving him from certain death and speaks perfect English. |
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The popular children's story is about an affectionate, sometimes bashful pig named Wilbur who befriends a spider named Charlotte. |
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In some families, the husband or the wife attends church, but befriends the world. |
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After visiting her grandmother for the summer in Vancouver, Mary befriends her neighbour, Mr. Hiroshi and helps him with his garden. |
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A young man learns the value of honesty as he befriends a mine pit pony. |
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But they run into problems when the conman befriends a troubled kid, and the security boss discovers the plot. |
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Paulo works in a hospital and befriends a terminally ill woman who longs to see her children again. |
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Trying to complete his Octavo, he befriends a dipsomaniac calligrapher and a pair of fan makers who have fled revolutionary France. |
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On her travels she meets some mountain climbers and a yeti, whom she befriends and eventually brings home to her family boat. |
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Although Molly resents her stepmother, she befriends her stepsister Cynthia, who is secretly engaged to Lord Cumnor's land agent, Mr. Preston. |
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A once-famous painter rediscovers inspiration when he befriends a sleepwalking cannibal. |
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During her stay there, Marty befriends an eight-year-old named Lily who is anorexic. |
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Even the fact that the heroine is an ex-actor and the Washington bigwig she befriends a thwarted thesp gives the whole affair a cosy patina of showbusiness. |
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The solemnity of the story is relieved by the humour of the rustic travellers at the Rainbow Inn, and the genial motherliness of Dolly Winthrop, who befriends Silas. |
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He befriends Zhang Xiao Hu at his workplace and uses his celebrity persona to encourage his colleagues to cast aside their prejudices. |
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An accepted member of the Saskanous, Mathieu befriends a missionary, who reminds him of the customs of his own people. |
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Their relationship, however, starts to change when Jo befriends a young man and Lionel entertains the attention of a middleaged woman. |
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In response to rejection by his schoolfellows, Haru befriends a group of Chinese kids, the social outcast and the foreigner finding kinship in their shared oppression. |
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The story of a nun who befriends a man on death row never sentimentalises the issues, but is an unforgettable study of capital punishment's cynicism. |
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He befriends Mary, and tells her how he found the precious papers. |
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Robin stars as a disabled janitor who befriends a young boy. |
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Stuck in the jungle, our hero befriends a peasant named Pacha and together they attempt to return to the palace in order to restore his human form. |
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But things change when a woman beggar comes to the area and befriends him. |
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There, he befriends a deaf girl and her hockey-playing brother. |
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The shuffling enigma, head occasionally cocked in bird-like inquisitiveness, befriends his fellow patients to mesmerising and medically undefinable effect. |
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The book's owner, Maurice Conchis befriends Urfe and brings him into his vortical universe. |
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She befriends an other-worldly boy, Trotham, whose mapmaking leads them into danger. |
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In between Holly falls for a wily get-rich schemer and heartbreaker, has a daughter with a war-junkie foreign correspondent and befriends a novelist whose artistic powers are on the wane. So far so semi-conventional. |
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In most cases of fetus abduction, the abductor befriends the pregnant victim, all the while planning to kill her and extract the baby by Caesarean section, obviously risking the baby's health and life. |
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Alison befriends lonely Giant Panda and skips happily in a meadow with it. |
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While there, he befriends tunneller Jack Firebrace, who helps him come to terms with both the conflict and his lost love. |
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A film editor, Nadine, befriends him, and his father appears as well. |
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Hildy Johnson befriends a murder suspect who's escaped from jail and hides him inside a rolltop desk in the newsroom, so that nobody else can get an interview with him — great! |
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The social worker very clearly befriends the families with whom she works, and the GP becomes a friend to many of his patients. |
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He befriends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, and is confronted by Lord Voldemort who is trying to regain power. |
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He befriends shy roommate Randall Boggs and impresses his teachers by regurgitating facts from textbooks. |
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Ezio befriends Leonardo da Vinci, takes on Florence's most powerful families and ventures throughout the canals of Venice where he learns to become a master assassin. |
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Embarrassed, and seeking acceptance, Michael befriends ex-convict Everette Hatch, who, recognizing opportunity, exploits Michael's ideas to his advantage. |
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The film featured strong performances by John Cassavetes as a white soldier who has gone AWOL, Sidney Poitier as the black stevedore who befriends him, and Jack Warden as their sadistic boss. |
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In his poor neighbourhood, Abu Raed befriends a group of children who show up at his door one morning wanting to hear about his adventures around the world. |
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Claude, a young man from Oklahoma, travels to New York City. Once there, he befriends a group of hippies and falls in love with Sheila, an upmarket girl. |
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She befriends Marilyne, a high school misfit, who introduces her to the Rungis circuit, an illegal racetrack in greater Paris where souped-up mopeds and muscle motorbikes meet to take part in exciting and dangerous races. |
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Morris dancing yokel Cuddy Banks provides much amusement when he befriends the devil dog, oblivious to his sinister powers. |
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Despite her father's admonitions, the girl eavesdrops on her older brother's Latin lessons and secretly befriends the son of the local Wampanoag chief. |
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When the man in the yellow hat befriends Curious George in the jungle, they set off on a non-stop, fun-filled journey through the wonders of the big city toward the warmth of true friendship. |
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The new kid in town, Josh has no friends and is too shy to try out for the school basketball team. Instead he prefers to practice alone on an abandoned court, he befriends a runaway golden retriever named Buddy. |
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Luckily, they meet an old peddler with a cart and horse who befriends them as he travels the driftway, an ancient road that is sometimes paved and sometimes green grass. |
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There he befriends an older boy, James Steerforth, and Tommy Traddles. |
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Decompressing isn't a word that befriends me at the best of times, but certainly sitting at a piano or spending time at the theatre or a good concert helps. |
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