Leydig has found in the stomach of the Hydatina Senta a messmate which much resembles an Euglena, and still more the Distigma tenax, Ehr.
The Protolepas bivincta also, a fifth of an inch in length, lives as a messmate in the mouth of the Alepas cornuta; and the Elminius of Leach also inhabits other cirrhipedes.
On the coast of England lives another soldier-crab (Pagurus Prideauxii), which has as its principal messmate a sea anemone called Adamsia, which Mons.
In the Bay of Massachusetts, on the coast of New England, another curious messmate lives at great depths; Dana has lately described it, under the name of Epizoanthus Americanus, V.
The surest means of finding it, says this philosopher, is to look for it on this annelid; and our much regretted fellow-labourer at Geneva did not 48 abandon this messmate before he had completely studied it.
Wyville Thomson explained to me, while I was myself his messmateat Edinburgh, at the meeting of the British Association in 1871, that the polyps of the Silurian age already practised it.
The large mussel, which furnishes fine pearls (Avicula margaritifera), lodges also pinnotheres of a particular species by the side of another messmatemore allied to a lobster than a crab.
Hesse, took for a Trematode, and whose drawings had led me into error, lives like others at liberty while young, and soon fixes itself to a Clymenian, in order to pass as a messmate the later period of its life.
The messmate does not live at the expense of his host; all that he desires is a home or his friend's superfluities.
The Sertularia parasitica of the gulf of Naples, from which I have formed the genus Corydendrium, is a messmate after the manner of an infinite number of other polyps.
I am so thankful that I have found you," cried Charley, as he grasped the hand of his messmate after he had been helped on board.
Ned, withdrawing his eyes from poor Cox, who was clinging to his log, and shouting to his messmate to make haste, looked towards the dhow of which Rhymer was in chase.
In a short time her commander, Lieutenant Jenkins, came on shore, and proved to be an old messmate of Mr Pack.
Dykes, my man, can you tell me where your old messmate Jacobs has got to?
If we had had our sick messmate from Williamsburg, we would have had noise (Noyes) all night, but as it was it only lasted until one o'clock.
Upon the day in question, however, I was not only an invited guest, but the wife of his messmate and friend.
The whole I saw to be an intricate system of coercion and discipline; and I submitted with all the cheerfulness I could; but there was a messmate of mine, who claimed the sympathy I disregarded.
Having parted from my old messmate Sinnet, I started at dawn the next morning, intending to push on as fast as my steed would carry me.
In vain I expected my messmateto hasten to his post.
My old messmate turned out at an early hour to accompany me down to the quay.
My young messmate and I were out in the West Indies, and belonged to the Liffy.
I at once entered, and found my messmate with his men ready to set out.
His messmate was too ill to get up, he said, but notwithstanding, though a sick man, he managed to consume a fair quantity of the viands La Touche took to him.
He was on the point of sinking when my gallant little messmate got up to him, and throwing himself on his back, placed Larry's head on his own breast, so as completely to keep it out of the water.
I recognised Sinnet, my old messmate on board the Liffy.
The countenance of the other person, who wore the uniform of a lieutenant, I did not recognise, but I guessed he must be the sickmessmate to whom La Touche had been so attentive.
And everymessmate shook him heartily by the hand, and by them the subject was dropped, and for ever.
I was anxious to examine the nature of my wound, to which my old messmate would not listen for a moment.
My messmateuttered these words close to my ears in a despairing tone as we dashed on, and now I saw Ching strike to his right, while I made a cut or two at my left, as men started from the sides and tried to trip us up.
He turned his wild eyes upon Barkins, whose aspect was ludicrous enough to make him forget his own sensations, and he smiled a peculiarly saddened, pensive smile; for our messmate was leaning towards Ching.
He assisted my messmate gently enough, and then said laughingly-- "One can dress your wound without having three men to hold you.
I rose slowly, and, with the customary malignity of one rudely wakened from sleep, began to feel a grim satisfaction in seeing my messmate robbed of his repose in turn.
A messmate at sea, a comrade on shore, And in jolly carouse, in wassail roar.
I met you, that a messmate took me to the big hall, back o' the readin'-room.
He noted also that, of the twelve or thirteen midshipmen there associated with him, in less than two years all but one, his old messmate Ogden, of the Essex, had disappeared from the navy.
Ogden; who as a midshipman of the Essex had been his messmate nearly thirty years before, and was now compelled to leave his ship by an illness which never allowed him to resume the active pursuit of his profession.
Bob struck an attitude, and began to square at his messmate playfully; but he sat down again directly.
Three of the men ceased rowing, and gazed through the haze in full belief that their messmate had heard a signal shot fired, for the man's attitude and tone were so convincing that there could be no doubt.
Twere rather thy duty, too, to get back thy sister Swanlauga, whom Eydis ironsword and his messmate Stediakoll took away out of thy house, but thou didst not dare to do aught against them.
He had slain a robber east in Jemtland's wood, and then he fared on east into Sweden, and was a messmate of Saurkvir the churl, and they harried eastward ho; but to the east of Baltic side.
Steinvor, at Sandgil, besought Thorgrim the Easterling to take in hand the care of her goods, and not to sail away from Iceland, and so to keep in mind the death of his messmate and kinsman.
He began to speak thus-- "Too few men, messmate Thorgeir, hast thou now in thy company.
Thangbrand and his messmate fared right through the west country, and Steinvora, the mother of Ref the Skald, came against him; she preached the heathen faith to Thangbrand and made him a long speech.
Snatchblock and his messmate walked along, abusing their captors for their own gratification, knowing pretty well that not a word they uttered could be understood.
Although I had given but little heed to prayer, or to my Maker, up to that time, I did pray, then and there, most earnestly that my messmate might be saved.
There is nothing for any one to do in England, you know; and it will be very jolly having you for my messmate and fellow-settler.
An old messmate told me that when his ship was at Gibraltar, many years before, the colonel of one of the regiments there sent Captain Waters the haunch of a large ape, which had been shot a few days before.
Oh yes, sir," I answered glibly enough, overjoyed at having little Tommy Mills as a messmate once more.
Your messmatecould not have driven it into a shark over the hook.
The man we had just lost had been his messmate and friend, he told me, for ten years.
The masses of white, silver and messmate gum-trees that clothe these same Adelaide hills so thickly, formed a grateful resting-place for the eye, wearied with the steadfast glare of sunshine.
It was so keenly luminous that the trees on the Messmate ranges stood sharply outlined instead of being merged in a continuous mass of foliage.
You see where the Messmate Ranges fall off into flat country?
