“Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.”

“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall with our English dead.”

“You should not speak ill of an absent friend.”
Ne male loquare absenti amico.

“314. The absent partie is still faultie.”

“Mind the dead man, my dear.”

“Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls;
For, thus friends absent speak.”

“Chicken and still later exports from India are absent in common Laurasian ritual.”

“… my dear friend Poverty, nurse of philosophy”

“Still are the thoughts to memory dear.”

“She that asks
Her dear five hundred friends.”