Bedfellow

The next morning when the maid came in to make the fire, we woke up face to face in the same bed, and then she told me that her name was Belle Boyd, and I knew for the first time that my bedfellow was the South's famous female spy. ❋ Myrta Lockett Avary (1903)

Apple has found a strange 'bedfellow' in its quest to push HTML5 over Adobe's Flash: the movie someday? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Apple has found a strange 'bedfellow' in its quest to push HTML5 over Adobe's Flash: the ❋ Unknown (2010)

Another strange bowling bedfellow is the fancy fare, provided by the barbecue masters at Blue Ribbon; among other things, the menu leads to a more generously tipped—and perhaps more service-orientated—wait staff than one tends to encounter at music venues or bowleramas. ❋ Lizzie Simon (2011)

DUNE propounded the shocking idea that religion is a dangerous bedfellow for politics, and that even a messiah cannot control what comes of his messianic mission. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Conservatives are not natural bedfellow of industrial policy see stopping the Sheffield Forgemaster loan - when ironically planning a massive expansion of nuclear power. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Remember, he is working with the President and an odd bedfellow in Rev. Sharpton to raise our educational performance, and his candidness is always refreshing. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But the strange-bedfellow coalition skirted some of the more controversial issues of health reform such as “whether a government-run health plan should be available to compete with private companies” or whether the government should require employers to offer coverage. ❋ Unknown (2009)

That's right, a woman in New Zealand suffered a small stroke that partially paralyzed her after receiving a hickey -- or as the Kiwis call it, a "love bite" -- from her eager bedfellow, reported New Zealand Medical Journal. ❋ Nicholas Miriello (2011)

My closest companion has been a horse; my bedfellow, fear; my pillow, fevered sleep. ❋ Mira Bartók (2011)

When Mark Twain, as he lay awake imagining himself a millionaire, told his bedfellow that the first thing he was going to do with his money was to build a castle in San Francisco, he was expressing succinctly the close relationship between Washoe and the metropolis of the West. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Cameron's image graces the newspaper with the message, "Our Only Hope" and underscores the strange bedfellow relationship that has developed between Cameron and President Obama. ❋ Unknown (2010)

With their early call to action so widely ignored, it was somewhat ironic that The New York Times found such a strange bedfellow in Michele Bachmann who, in the middle of the televised Tea Party debate, blasted her Republican opponent Rick Perry for signing an executive order in Texas to mandate the controversial vaccine for all girls in his state. ❋ Shelley Ross (2011)

Casinos, dancing rooms, divans, night houses, pleasure gardens, music halls, and cafes worked as more casual sites for picking up a bedfellow, but most commonly the flaneur fulfilled his desire by hitting the streets. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The organization's allies demonized the charity, attempting to depict the nation's most prominent anti-breast cancer organization as a bedfellow of religious extremists. ❋ Robert P. George (2012)

There was no way in hell that I was going to vote for the new Dallas hotel (seeing as how the only person who really benefits is Robert Dechard, CEO of A.H. Belo, which owns the property on which the hotel would be built), but voting against it made me a bedfellow with Harlan Crow, the owner of the current convention center hotel in Dallas. ❋ Unknown (2009)