Use mate in a sentence
Sentences ending with mate
- And her mate--would you like to know her mate? [11]
- They went down with all on board, no doubt, not even sparing that knightly chief mate. [5]
- For it still was a pain to her to see her mother cooing like a pigeon round her new mate. [10]
- It couldn't be the house--anybody could build its mate. [5]
- This is saying that, taken as a whole, they equalized each other, and neither was then greater than its mate. [5]
- Before long I spied out the plug's mate. [5]
- But I should say that if he turns up anywhere, he'll come ashore somewhere about Grinidge to-morrow, at ebb tide, eh, mate? [12]
- Who loads them?--the mate? [5]
- Then he's slowly marched down the double line of men, who flog him as he passes, and at the end of the line he receives another dose of the cat from the boatswain's mate. [11]
- Most men are lucky if they get, like Henderson, a running mate. [4]
Sentences containing mate two or more times
- The second mate refused to go, but the chief mate was ready; in fact, he was always ready when there was a man's work to the fore. [5]
- The chief mate and eight men were in one of the small boats, the second mate and seven men in the other. [5]
- Of course; and, after all, she would find another mate, a better mate, one of her own people. [11]
More example sentences with the word mate in them
- If your mate would like to come to the hanging, fetch him along. [5]
- A sterner court would examine the case in Sydney--the Court of Directors, the lords of a company in whose ships the captain had served as mate a number of years. [5]
- Then my conductor, whom I rightly judged to be the mate of this devil's crew, took me roughly by the shoulder and bade me accompany him to the cabin. [9]
- I got the whole story from the third mate and two of the sailors. [5]
- So with the white owl (Strix flammea), "the survivor readily found a mate, and the mischief went on. [1]
- Wordsworth was wrong when he wrote: "'No mate, no comrade Lucy knew; She dwelt on a wide moor: The sweetest thing that ever grew Beside a human door--' For my wife's been her comrade. [11]
- Says the mate, 'What did you come down for? [5]
- While the captain was giving the mate his final orders, Mr. Orchardson, for such was his name, regaled us with a part of his life's history. [9]
- Next night, which was dark and rainy, the mate ordered this chap to go aloft about something, and I'm dummed if he didn't start up with an umbrella and a lantern! [5]
- The big mate was at the wheel, and he had the old tub pointed at a star and was holding her straight up the middle of the river. [5]
- The chief mate was an excellent officer--a self-possessed, resolute, fine, all-round man. [5]
- I asked him various questions; first about a mate of mine in Sunday school--what became of him? [5]
- Slow to make up his mind in some things, as every eligible man must be, he was now coming rapidly to the notion that he might eventually decide upon Victoria as the most fitting mate for one in his position. [9]
- He had sailed two cruises as master's mate of the Cabot, and was then serving as master of the Trumbull, Captain Saltonstall. [9]
- I got into trouble in San Francisco with the chief mate of the Flying Polly, because I tried to teach him his business. [11]
- As a mental tour de force it is without a mate, it defies alike the simple, the concrete, and the occult. [5]
- The chief mate took his stand in the glare of a torch-basket, a coil of rope in his hand, and his men grouped about him. [5]
- If I had Tom Sawyer's head I wouldn't trade it off to be a duke, nor mate of a steamboat, nor clown in a circus, nor nothing I can think of. [5]
- The third mate told me that the boots were old and full of holes; then added thoughtfully, 'but the holes digested the best. [5]
- The third mate told me in Honolulu that the 'Portyghee' had lain in his hammock for months, raising his family of abscesses and feeding like a cannibal. [5]
- I am going to purge myself of the last vestiges of artificiality and pretence, and then start fair on your own honest level and be worthy mate to you thenceforth. [5]
- I should like to know what Gulgul, as we Persians call the nightingale, has to talk about to her mate in the rose-bush. [10]
- It ain't enough to know how to reef a gasket, you got to make the mate know you know it. [5]
- I particularly longed to acquire the least trifle of notice from the big stormy mate, and I was on the alert for an opportunity to do him a service to that end. [5]
- The captain went to a locker and brought forth some mellow Madeira, and after the mate had taken a glass of it standing, he withdrew. [9]
- Ay, a grand thing I thought it would be, too, to go riding round the world on a well-washed deck, with plenty of food and grog, and maybe, by-and-by, to be first mate, and lord it from fo'castle bunk to stern-rail. [11]
- McNeir had his thigh broken by a pike, and was dragged back after the first rush was over; and the mate of the bark was near to drowning, being rescued, indeed, by Graham, the tanner. [9]
- An honour from the young English Queen--that would mate with Madelinette's fame. [11]
- My chief and the third mate and nearly all the men were safe. [5]
- He turned to the mate, and says he-- "Have we got brimstone enough of our own to make the trip? [5]
- Did you see the mate to the horse I lost? [9]
- My, but wasn't the mate mad! [5]
- When at length the impatient mate had hurried him off, Dolly turned to me. [9]
- By reason of the foul weather the pirate could not board Smith, and his master, mate, and pilot, Chambers, Minter, and Digby, importuned him to surrender, and that he should send a boat to the pirate, as Fry had no boat. [4]
- The diarist makes the following note--there is character in it: 'I offered one bottle of brandy to the chief mate, but he declined, saying he could keep the after-boat quiet, and we had not enough for all. [5]
- The crew of the bark had assembled on the quarterdeck, stout English tars every man of them, armed with pikes and belaying-pins; and at a word from the mate they rushed in a body over the plank. [9]
- He came into that village of his, happy and proud because now, instead of being chief mate, he was going to be master of a whaleship, and he was proud and happy about it. [5]
- My mate retorted that a mere impulse was nothing--anybody could pretend to a good impulse; and went on decrying my Unionism and libelling my ancestry. [5]
- When we were taking notes in the Honolulu hospital and a sailor told this to Mr. Burlingame, the third mate, who was lying near, raised his head with an effort, and in a weak voice made this correction--with solemnity and feeling: 'Raising abscesses! [5]
- Presently the captain stepped out on the hurricane deck; next the chief mate appeared; then a clerk. [5]
- The thing is started by a boatswain's mate givin' him a dozen lashes. [11]
- As he did so the surgeon and the chief mate came running towards him. [11]
- If the landsman should wish the gang-plank moved a foot farther forward, he would probably say: 'James, or William, one of you push that plank forward, please;' but put the mate in his place and he would roar out: 'Here, now, start that gang-plank for'ard! [5]
- Well, going to sea, the mate told him to go aloft and help shake out the foreto'gallants'l. [5]
- Captain and mate sang out instantly, and both together-- 'Starboard lead there! [5]
- You know that sailors don't fly around worth a cent unless you swear at them--so the mate that can do the best job of swearing is the most valuable man. [5]
- That arch-rascal Siebenburg robbed the people of the little sense they possessed, and that cat of a candle-dealer, with her mate, the tailor, or rather his followers, poisoned the minds of the rest. [10]
- But then I remembered how that the maiden nightingale likewise pipes her sweetest only so long as her bosom is full of pining love; but so soon as she has given her heart wholly to her mate, her song grows shorter and less tender. [10]
- In a great pit lay the mate of the largest stone in the ruins. [5]
- During fifty years, out there, the innocent passenger in need of help and information, has been mistaking the mate for the cook, and the captain for the barber--and being roughly entertained for it, too. [5]
- On the bridge our giant captain, in uniform; at his side a little pilot in elaborately gold-laced uniform; on the forecastle a white mate and quartermaster or two, and a brilliant crowd of lascars standing by for business. [5]
- But I saw our chief mate carried thither more than once. [5]
- This same naturalist ordered the sparrows, which deprived the house-martins of their nests, to be shot; but the one which was left, "be it cock or hen, presently procured a mate, and so for several times following. [1]
- One is an old "independent" fireman, and he wants an engine in place of the cannon; another is a mate of a tug, and wants a tug in place of the ship --and so on, and so on. [5]
- That shameful flight of the cooing dove after his mate, at which generations yet unborn will point in mockery! [10]
- The riotous powwow of setting a spar was going on down on the forecastle, and I went down there and stood around in the way--or mostly skipping out of it--till the mate suddenly roared a general order for somebody to bring him a capstan bar. [5]
- That all comes of my being such a fool as to not remember that wherever you leave a dead snake its mate always comes there and curls around it. [5]
- When the soreness of my adventure with the mate had somewhat worn off, I began timidly to make up to the humblest official connected with the boat--the night watchman. [5]
- Monsieur Doltaire must never mate with daughter of mine. [11]
- I had no moustache then, was fat like a whale, and first mate on the 'Dancing Kate', a pearler in the Indian Ocean, between Java and Australia. [11]
- Now came the mate, hurrying aft, and said, close to the captain's ear, in a low, agitated voice: "Prepare for the worst, sir--we have sprung a leak! [5]
- The chief machinist's mate, however, comes in for special mention. [9]
- He is a mate of the blessed old-time kind; and goes gravely damning around, when there is work to the fore, in a way to mellow the ex-steamboatman's heart with sweet soft longings for the vanished days that shall come no more. [5]
- Yesterday the third mate mended the block, and this P.M. the sail, after some difficulty, was got down, and Harry got to the top of the mast and rove the halyards through after some hardship, so that it now works easy and well. [5]
- She hath no mate in the world save Mademoiselle Aubert, whom I brought hither to honour and to fame. [11]
- I think the mate had some little friendship for me, though he was too hardened by the life he had led to care a deal what became of me. [9]
- Nancy was the mate for me, and Nancy and I, our development, was all that mattered, especially my development. [9]
- The elephant whose mate fell into a pit, and who dumped dirt and rubbish into the pit till bottom was raised high enough to enable the captive to step out, was equipped with the reasoning quality. [5]
- I had a mate along o' your barge. [11]
- Besides, the third mate admired it, and what he admired he was likely to enhance. [5]
- There was one man, the mate on the first voyage. [11]
- And so he left me to see that the mate had signed all his lighter bills, shouting to the captain not to forget his cockets at Gravesend. [9]
- Formerly, if you killed a man, it was possible that you were insane--but now, if you, having friends and money, kill a mate, it is evidence that you are a lunatic. [5]
- Monday 7--I had just gone to bed a little after midnight when the 2d mate came and roused up the captain and said "The Comet has come round and is standing away on the other tack. [5]
- Arrived in the islands, he found that the staple of conversation was the exploits of one Bill Noakes, a bully, the mate of a trading ship. [5]
- But a ship is a large thing, and he can't be everywhere at once; so there have been times when one mate has lost a ship which could have been saved if they had had a hundred. [5]
- For him, poor insect as he was, a solitary flight by day, and a return at evening to his wingless mate! [6]
- And it was I, the passenger, who sailed her into Kirkcudbright, tho' I had never been more than a chief mate before. [9]
- There, once more, I resigned my position, chiefly because I wouldn't cheerfully let the Mate bang me about the quarter-deck. [11]
- I was sorry I hated the mate so, because it was not in (young) human nature not to admire him. [5]
- Well, by night I forgot all about the snake, and when Jim flung himself down on the blanket while I struck a light the snake's mate was there, and bit him. [5]
- Do they mate him, ever, with another who soars as high as he, who circles higher that he may circle higher still? [9]
- It had brought him near to his other self, his mate in the scheme of things. [11]
- Is it standin' here we are with our tongues in our cheeks, whin there's bastes to be killed, and mate to be got, and the call to war on the ground below! [11]
- Philomel sings to her mate 'I love thee,' and he answers, (don't you hear him? [10]
- It iss not hawnest mawney--that hass been oarned py voark; it iss mawney that hass peen mate py sbeculation, and the obbression off lapor, and the necessity of the boor, py a man--Here it is, efery tollar, efery zent. [8]
- He was a genius without a mate, a prodigy not matable. [5]
- A Mr. H. furnished some minor details of fact concerning this region which I would have hesitated to believe if I had not known him to be a steamboat mate. [5]
- Second Mate and four deck hands took the sounding boat and shoved out in the ice to hunt the channel. [5]
- There was no fit mate in that village for Joan of Arc. [5]
- For the honest first mate I had a great liking, and was touched beyond speech when he enjoined me to keep his shore suit as long as I had want of it. [9]
- After dinner the first mate hooked a fellow which he could not hold, so he let the line go to the captain, who was on the bow. [5]
- But they plainly feared the first mate, and John Paul most of all. [9]
- Whether his equine experience was of any use to him in the selection of the mate with whom he was to go in double harness so long as they both should live, we need not stop to question. [6]
- White stands well enough, so far as you can see; but Red says, Mate in six moves;--White looks,--nods;--the game is over. [6]
- Even after the eggs are hatched, if one of the old birds is destroyed a mate will often be found; this occurred after an interval of two days, in a case recently observed by one of Sir J. Lubbock's keepers. [1]
- It was the companionship of trouble; it was the bird, pursued by a hawk, calling across the lonely valley to its mate. [11]
- My mate, Joey Clynes, him that's on your ship, we was both born up beyond Bendigo. [11]
- The second mate catches three more boobies, and gives the long-boat one. [5]
- There was the captain and the mate, and another. [11]
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