So had Mabel set all her young school-mates against her that there was scarcely one who did not enjoy a laugh at her expense.
I do not think your school-mates will be unkind to you; and if they are, you must bear it as a part of the punishment for your naughtiness to Belle.
Belle told her story; and very naturally the sympathies of all her class-mates went with her, and Mabel was speedily made to see that she was thought to be altogether in the wrong, which did not tend to restore her to good humor.
Can it be that one of your little class-mates is so very wicked?
They proved to be the captain and two mates of the vessel.
Orders were issued to sail to New York, and the night previous Clark and his mess-mates were employed in making preparations for the voyage.
The sailors in the forecastle thought he had queer ways, but all concurred in the opinion of the Captain and mates that he had smelt salt water before; and yet he was singular.
Taken all together, things conspired to make some of the boys shrug their shoulders, and keep rather close to their mates under the conviction that there is strength in union.
Instead of capturing the tramps, his mates would have their work cut out for them in rescuing him from a watery grave in the deep pool that lay below.
And Bacchus cast your mates and you Wild grapes to glean; Your flower-like lips were dashed with dew From his, Faustine.
Merton, who had volunteered, was in one of the other boats, under the command of one of the master's mates of the frigate, and Charley Iffley was with him.
Iffley was one of the boatswain's mates chosen to inflict the punishment.
The mates and some of the French crews were sent on board the Albion; but two or three blacks and several Frenchmen remained on board the ships to help to navigate them.
The matesand crew accordingly received their wages, and we were all turned adrift.
The two mates messed with the captain, but the apprentices lived entirely with the men forward.
We had been standing on for a couple of hours or so, when I saw the master and mates looking out anxiously ahead.
I did my best to keep my mates of the watch awake.
Iffley and the other boatswain's mates stood with their cats, those dreadful instruments of power, in their hands ready for use.
We had nine powerful fellows doing duty as boatswain's mates on board, and there was starting and flogging going on every day and all day long.
The captain and mates continued fighting to the last, as if resolved to sell their lives dearly.
Perry, perhaps not averse to having the fight taken off his hands, ordered his team-mates to keep back.
Just as Perry had imagined would be the case when he brought about this peculiar understanding concerning the one who threw the stone, Tom Clipperton was on the other side of the canal, waiting for his team-mates to come up with him.
He was to get in with some of the betting men or sporting people that always came to country races, and I was to find out some of our old digger mates and box up with them.
I walked on pretty quick till I came to the flat where Arizona Bill and his mates had their sluicing claim.
Anyhow, no cattle-duffer in the colonies could have had a better pair of mates than old Sally and Crib, if the devil himself had broken 'em in special for the trade.
We've been good mates and true friends, haven't we?
He and his mates were doing well, and expected to be ready for a start in a few months, when we might meet in Melbourne and clear out together.
The colt stopped, turned, and galloped back to his mates like a red flyer with the dogs close behind him.
Land had been found insuperable, great masses of land ice barring the way to their objective, and so poor Campbell and his mates left news that they were reluctantly seeking a landing elsewhere.
Lady Scott has remarked on the magnificent spirit shown by her husband and his four specially-selected tent-mates when they knew that Queen Alexandra's little silk Union Jack had been anticipated by the flag of another nation.
Atkinson and his tent-mates now had to face a homeward march of 584 miles.
Those of his ship-mates who saw him in this gale will never forget his strong, brown face illuminated by a hanging lamp as he stood amongst those suffering little beasts.
Toward her mates she is tender, likes very much to kiss and embrace them and sleep in the same bed with them, but still everybody has a little aversion for her, it would seem.
Jennka sat on her bed until the very night, her legs crossed Turkish fashion; refused dinner, and chased out all her mates who went in to her.
Her mates make sport of her and despise her somewhat for this vice, just as though for some treason to their corporate enmity toward men.
Fights over pots were as frequent and as truculent as those over the children Of our room-mates I best recall a bookbinder and a retired old soldier who mended old sheepskin coats for a living.
I kept at it so strenuously that my mother had many a quarrel with our room-mates because of it My efforts went for nothing, however.
Captain Eph had not pored over the pages of the report many minutes, before he looked up at his mates in dismay, as he said: "What do you think, boys?
Young men who have seen some sea service are preferred as assistants at the larger stations; and at stations requiring but one keeper, retired sea captains or mates who have families are frequently selected.
Must be a pair o' 'em an' they ain't mates either.
Perk told himself, with a nervous little laugh; and as he brought up the rear just then neither of his mates saw his brief spasm of alarm, for which he was thankful.
Two minutes afterwards and there was Red grinning as he beckoned for his two mates to climb up to where he awaited them.
Six stalwart Leaguers immediately go to wait upon the proprietor of The Golden Reef, and whilst they are transacting their business their mates sing songs, the choruses of which float through the open windows over the adjacent country.
With a firebrand in one hand and a revolver in the other, the big, burly man crept forward; his mates alert to fire over him at any object he might discover.
Led by the Prospector, the great crowd of diggers roared three deafening cheers; and then the two mates shook hands.
Against the side were the two mates and Jans looking on at a scene to whose stir, clamour, excitement, they seemed to oppose deaf ears and insensible eyes.
It needed a power of will such as I could never have supposed I possessed to subdue my demeanour to that posture of calmness which the captain and his mates were used to see in me.
Some gazed up at the poop, where, as I presently discovered, stood the giant figure of Vanderdecken, his mates and the boatswain beside him, shapes of bronze motionlessly and silently watching.
These and other orders he delivered one by one, and they were repeated by the two mates and the boatswain.
Then the commandant stands the watch till midnight, and the mates together till sunrise," said I, speaking inaccurately that I might draw them into speech.
The matestake the deck as at sea, I till midnight, Van Vogelaar till four, then I again.
Engleheart, Mr., on the finding of new mates by starlings.
Geese, clanging noise made by; pairing of different species of; Canada, selection of mates by.
Gallinula chloropus; on the finding of newmates by magpies; on the finding of new mates by Peregrine falcons.
It would appear that female birds, as a general rule, have selected their mates either for their sweet voices or gay colours, but not for both charms combined.
Birkbeck, Mr., on the finding of new mates by golden eagles.
I invited the two mates of the Olive down into the fore-cabin to breakfast, while the cook and steward were supplying the sailors on the forecastle.
Myself and my mates have all seen service in a steamer, and we should be very glad to relieve you.
He sent two of his men on the topgallant forecastle to serve as lookouts, and declared that the mates should keep the wheel all the time.
Captain Mayfield and his two mates soon joined me in the pilot-house.
One of my mates was caught in some machinery at Bakhmakh.
As for our duties, my mates and I had nothing to do, and soon began to find the time tedious.
Harry slept in a bunk in the half-deck, and used to amuse his matesby telling them stories, composed on the spot; he had an excellent imagination, and on these occasions made good use of it.
On the 17th, I sent the master and one of the mates in the pinnace to look for a channel to the northward; and I went myself with Mr Banks and Dr Solander into the woods on the other side of the water.
Both mates withdrew in dudgeon, and Carson, after arranging the sufferer's bedclothes, quitted the cabin and sought his friend.
I shouldn't be at all surprised if the mates are taken bad too.
And see, from yon old oak that mates the skies, How black the clouds of swarming bees arise.
One of his mates remembered seeing him enter a saloon in Chefoo, kept by a Chinaman of more than doubtful reputation; nothing further could be ascertained concerning the seaman's movements.
Sam knew there were no talebearers among his mates and felt safe.
It is this year that teaches him to look to his own class-mates and no others for comrades and chums.
Then, next morning, when Mr. Jennings marched off guard he surprised his class-mates by denouncing the whole business as a low-lived trick.
Geordie was pinning a collar on his plebe jacket at the moment, and had resumed the gray dress of his class-mates in order to march with them to dinner.
Three days later, and with the September sunshine pouring in their window on the south side of barracks, the two corporals were room-mates at last.
I held conversation with half a dozen—class-mates and plebes both—when I happened to be down by the tank.
Was there no one of his tent-mates left at the tent the evening the exchange was made?
Loaded down with demerit, he was held at the Point when his class-mates scattered for home.
He had lost much of the popularity that had attended him since the plebe camp of the previous year, when his class-mates hailed him as one of their champions.
It was evident his class-mates were still shy of him.
Dona had asked each of her room-mates to consider whether No.
It is not easy to sit on your bed and weep when your room-mates are telling you their holiday adventures, singing comic songs, and passing round jokes.
She could not leave it amongst the portraits of her other war heroes, for fear her room-mates might refer to it.
She found an opportunity, when Irene was out of the way, to talk to her room-mates on the subject.
Her room-mates chuckled, and for the present left her alone.
It was more in a spirit of opposition to her room-mates than of philanthropy towards the new-comer.
Her room-mates were on the whole good-natured, and in return for some contributions she had given to their collections they also wrote home for any V.
Chrissie as their room-mates made their exit, executing a fox-trot en route.
The girls confided their exciting news to their room-mates and their most intimate friends, with the result that on Saturday afternoon at least sixteen heads were peeping out of windows on the qui vive to see the interesting visitor arrive.
Speak here before God and thy dead wife and thy mates and thy townsmen.
Thus for many a year David went in and out among his mates and friends, living the gospel in their sight.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: both; brace; couple; couplet; doublet; duet; duo; dyad; match; pair; span; team; two; yoke
