We, that is to say my messmates and I, assembled in the berths, and having discussed the matter, concluded that all the culprits would be hung next morning. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
I was shunned with a studied contempt; the more particularly as my messmates were the subjects of the constant jibes of the captain and the other officers, which messmates were of a unanimous opinion that Master Joshua ought to have been hung, inasmuch as it is now apparent that their ruined apparel was all derivable from his malice, and his "Practice of Chemistry made ❋ Edward Howard (1820)
One of my "messmates" in this boat, was a young fellow who had been second captain of the mizen-top on board of H.M.S. "Vengeance;" but not liking the style of discipline, especially -- as he said -- the irritating substitutes for flogging which have been introduced of late years into the Navy, to suit the mawkish sensibility of public opinion in England, as well as the clamours of the all-ruling Press, he took the first opportunity of running away, to seek his fortune in the Far West. ❋ Henry A. Murray (N/A)
"In the act of playing tricks upon one of his messmates" – no further details are given – "his penis was slit with a knife at about an inch wounding the glans to a line in depth". ❋ Maev Kennedy (2010)
Very few people noticed him at all, although he was recognized once or twice by former messmates, and one officer stopped him with an out-stretched hand. ❋ Dj Barber (2010)
There is evidence, as in the case of Deborah Samson the correct spelling does not include a "p", that some women were known to be such by their messmates, but because of their fighting ability and toughness were accepted as equals. ❋ Maggiemac (2009)
At last certain of my messmates killed one of the captives and the snake-charmer would have no more to do with me. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Sittin' by the roadside on a summer's day, Chattin' with my messmates, passing time away, lying in the shadows, underneath the trees--Goodness, how delicious, eating goober peas! ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)
Francis Beedle, one of the soldiers, was evidently dying of the fever; and having in vain attempted, with the assistance of one of his messmates, to carry him over, I was forced to leave him on the West bank; thinking it very probable that he would die in the course of the night. ❋ Unknown (2008)
When the anchor dropped from the bows and the chain ran through the hawse pipe, it was sweet music to my ears; for the strain had been great, and I felt years older than when I parted from my messmates. ❋ Ron Soodalter (2007)
I could hear that the younger Hartnell's messmates and Fitzjames's presence were holding him back, but even as my scalpel cut through tissue and my knife and rib spreader opened the corpse for examination, I could hear the Muttering and Anger just a few yards beyond the curtain. ❋ Simmons, Dan (2007)
Dr. Alexander McDonald tells me that Torrington, who had become too weak in recent weeks even to allow his short Constitutionals around the lower deck, helped by his messmates, came down with Pneumonia on Christmas Day, and it had been a Death Watch since then. ❋ Simmons, Dan (2007)
And some, being in fear of the ship (declaring, because of all our misfortune and the strange disappearances of their messmates and the brother of my lover, that she was haunted by a devil), declared their intention of taking their gear up to the spring, and there making a camp. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Sir John himself draped a Union Jack over the coffin, and then Torrington's friends and messmates set themselves into Harness and pulled the sledge the six hundred feet or so to the ice-and-gravel shore of Beechey Island. ❋ Simmons, Dan (2007)
Eiren,119 or head of the flock, must see that his messmates gathered to the club meal,120 with such moderate food as to avoid that heaviness121 which is engendered by repletion, and yet not to remain altogether unacquainted with the pains of penurious living. ❋ Unknown (2007)
“No, nor yet a peltast”; but he had been ordered by his messmates to drive a mule, although he was a free man. ❋ Unknown (2007)
His design was, if he took the place, not to return again to the army, but to mount a vessel which, with his messmates on board her, was sailing past at the time, and stowing away what he had seized, to set sail and begone beyond the Euxine. ❋ Unknown (2007)
