Citations:accompanying


 * 1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.
 * With this view I took shipping for Lisbon, where I arrived in April following, my man Friday accompanying me very honestly in all these ramblings, and proving a most faithful servant upon all occasions.


 * 1813 — Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
 * She highly approved his forbearance, and they had leisure for a full discussion of it, and for all the commendation which they civilly bestowed on each other, as Wickham and another officer walked back with them to Longbourn, and during the walk he particularly attended to her. His accompanying them was a double advantage; she felt all the compliment it offered to herself, and it was most acceptable as an occasion of introducing him to her father and mother.


 * 1851 — Herman Melville. Moby Dick.
 * An Anacharsis Clootz deputation from all the isles of the sea, and all the ends of the earth, accompanying Old Ahab in the Pequod to lay the world's grievances before that bar from which not very many of them ever come back.
 * To mention but one thing about it, let me say that it has an eye which applied, according to the accompanying scale, to a full grown sperm whale, would make the eye of that whale a bow-window some five feet long.
 * "Cook," here interposed Stubb, accompanying the word with a sudden slap on the shoulder, — "Cook! why, damn your eyes, you mustn't swear that way when you're preaching.