Mates

Examples

• Hasn't ye 'eard that devil's spawn of a capting an' is mates knockin' the bloomin' lights outen 'arf the crew? Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The diamond is the hardest known substance in the world, cutting and grinding all other known hard things, but itself only cut and ground by its mates. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Amid brilliant tropical plants brilliant plumage may afford means of concealment, as well as being a factor in the securing of mates. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The fellow whom I had struck lay where he had fallen, nor did any of his mates approach him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• He and the two mates, are as I learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• I was impatient to get on my uniform and see how it looked, and probably wanted my old school-mates, particularly the girls, to see me in it. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• When the fighting was over there was no one left of our enemies except just the warders, the mates, and the doctor. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The two mates had both been seized by the crew, and the whole business seemed to be settled. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Birds began singing in brake and copse: birds were faithful to their mates; birds were emblems of love. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The captain, the two mates, two warders, Lieutenant Martin, his eighteen soldiers, and the doctor were all that we had against us. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• When there's hard duty to be done with danger in it, he steps for'ard afore all his mates. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Now every nest held happy mates, and hart and hind slumbered blissfully safe in their lair. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Most of my time was spent among my old school-mates--these ten weeks were shorter than one week at West Point. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Mates, make me ready! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He had two older brothers--all three being school-mates of mine at their father's school--who did not go the same way. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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