My shipmates in the Danube gave me a very cheery farewell dinner and send off, and I entered upon my new experience with a lot of curiosity, for the tales of the coast were many and various.
I had known his people at the Cape for years past, and was afterwards shipmates with him in the old Devastation.
They were cheery shipmatesand left a pleasant remembrance behind them.
In case they are still alive and chance upon these lines, I should like to say that the kindest remembrances of them remain, for we were shipmates afterwards on more than one occasion.
He took a great fancy to me, and if we had remained shipmates I fancy his career might have been better than it was.
They behaved as decently as any men I have been shipmates with.
We had been shipmates in the old Roman, and consequently I was well satisfied with everything.
The other shipmates of our hero it will be better to introduce as they appear on the stage.
Fortunately, the weather was fine, for when the man at the helm had steered till he could see no more, and requested to be released, he found that his shipmates were so overpowered with fatigue, that it was impossible to wake them.
Four men came on the deck, looked round them, and tried to make out in the dark where their shipmatesmight be.
And the angular spiritual edges of shipmates wore toward one through the uniform of flesh, became annoying, sometimes unbearable.
He told us not to despair--that many poor fellows had been much worse off than we were, and that certainly by daylight we should be seen by our shipmates in the boats, and be supplied with what we wanted.
I do not wish to avoid punishment, but it would be a double one to remain manacled here while my shipmates are fighting the enemy.
My shipmates declared that for months together they never saw me smile.
If one of my old shipmates were to be asked if he knew Willand Wetherholm, he would certainly say, "No; never heard of such a man.
One or two of my shipmates had slipped up on deck, and they returned with the sad tidings below.
Two of our shipmates were hove off from the lee yard-arm, and their despairing shrieks reached our ears as they drifted away, a warning to us of what might be our fate.
I wished to see my shipmates righted, but I should have advised them, had they allowed me, to employ only legal means.
Many other shipmates came up, and expressed themselves much in the same way.
A good many of his old friends and shipmates used to look in on him, and I was much struck by the kind and hospitable way in which my aunt always received them.
In spite of the poor fellows suffering below, and the number of shipmates we had lost, we felt very happy as with a fair breeze we sailed in through the Needles, our well-won prize following in our wake.
I knew that my shipmates had given it to encourage me.
One of my poor shipmates died, I was told, from his hurts.
Adams was in the narrow compass of a ship’s forecastle, where all the conversation among his shipmates was in respect to the debauchery they had practised while on shore and meant to practise again at the first opportunity.
He could not very well stand like a mute as those reunited shipmates drank to the sprees of other days and finished up in wild farewells and sanguine toasts to the success of the venture they were engaged upon.
And, realising that those old shipmates of his would give him away for a bribe, he had come to Gabrielle with the intention of taking her farther along the coast.
Still, we could not help thinking of our poor shipmates who had remained on the wreck, and whom we felt sure must all have been drowned.
To return to the wreck to try and save any of our drowning shipmates was impossible, and it seemed equally impossible that we should reach the shore through the boiling surf we saw before us.
That it really did confer a sort of distinction upon them was evidenced, too, by the increased cordiality with which their shipmates greeted them.
Like being shipmates with a red-hot stove," put in another before-the-mast humorist.
But take it all in good part, and you'll soon beshipmates with all of them.
We will ship with a captain we know, and with shipmates from our own country, who are Christians and understand the compass.
Whatever their shipmates might have said, they felt that they had been severely punished, especially as they had failed in their runaway expedition.
After the cabin offices had been distributed, he told Monroe that he intended to run away that night; but he had found no opportunity to do so; and it was unfortunate for his shipmates that he did not.
And so the poor Dean didn't know what to do; until one of his old shipmates met him in the street, and took him off to New Bedford, and shipped him as cabin-boy of the Blackbird.
My shipmates were all either drowned or killed outright by the falling ice, so far at least as I knew.
Again, falling by accident out of a gun-port, my shipmates succeeded in rescuing me when not able to help myself.
Thomas Geary 'is name was, and we was shipmates aboard the barque Grenada, homeward bound from Sydney to London.
Shipmates we were, shipmates we'll be; while Nick Gunn is alive you shall never want for company.
The despairing shrieks of his shipmates sounded in his ears, and he felt himself borne onward into smoother water.
His first idea was to survey the island, so as to learn to a certainty whether any of his shipmates might have been cast on it.
A considerable time thus passed, and he wished that his shipmates would return to the boat, lest Mr Manners should come down before them.
They regretted being driven away from the schooner without receiving more on board; and Ben heard, with sorrow, that there was but little chance of any of their shipmates being saved.
Me and my shipmates was paid off at Portsmouth last year, and six of us agreed to dine together and each order his dish.
And in a moment, ere any of his stiff and wounded shipmates could put out a hand, he threw himself on his back upon the water, and sunk forever, with inexpressible rapture on his corpse-like face.
Welch heard him and said, with due warmth, "Of course there is a tree on all these islands that grows cabbages; that was known a hundred years before you was born, and shipmates of mine have eaten them.
I don't do for no man what split a bob with me, and we was shipmates before we ever knowed Thirkle; and we'll beshipmates again, Jim.
It was a miserable, anxious night, for the disaster to our shipmates (we not knowing whether they were dead or alive) threw a gloom over the whole ship.
When did any one of his shipmates ever know Mr Chucks to do an unhandsome or mean action?
They pointed out to me the bodies of our shipmates who had perished.
Jim Billings used to get drunk as often as possible, and he himself told me of one ghastly expedient to which he was reduced when he and his shipmateswere parched and craving for more poison.
That was very funny indeed, for Jim's shipmates observed that as he was bruised and rope's-ended more and more he lost all power of retaining his food, and everything he swallowed passed from him undigested.
But when Grettir's shipmates saw the fire, they said one to the other that he would be a happy man who might get it, and they doubted whether they should unmoor the ship, but to all of them there seemed danger in that.
Happily Tuttle had taken no part in the mutiny, and had been among the first to urge his shipmates to return to their duty.
Harry and Jacob had helped three shipmates to climb up on to the raft.
I also felt convinced that he must, with great care and circumspection, have picked the lock of the despatch-box and have despoiled it of its contents, which he had kept for himself without informing any of his shipmates of what he had found.
He told us that England and his shipmates had made a little craft out of bits of boards and barrel-staves, and had crossed over to the Mauritius in a spell of fair weather, though it was five leagues and more away.
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