Normally she would have been enjoying a luxurious breakfast along with the tea, but her breakfast companion was not a creature designed to stimulate anyone's appetite.

Cooper, according to his breakfast companion, berated the hotel employee mercilessly, calling him a "stupid colonial" and similar epithets.

"That's quite all right," I said graciously, aware of the looks of astonishment on the faces of my breakfast companions.

"My name's poison right now," he tells his breakfast companion, suggesting that he might not want the Giuliani endorsement he's asking for.

Also, I find you a perfect breakfast companion, not to mention lunch and dinner.

But that is where Ms. Oates and her breakfast companion differed.

But, my breakfast companion told me, there's a story behind it.

I have a good time with just about any breakfast companion, including myself.

He turned to the second of his breakfast companions.

"Mr. Braun, Doctor, aren't you rather unusual breakfast companions?"