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  • Waltham, and he is merely wondering if Mr. Mellaire was a ship-mate of Sidney Waltham eighteen years ago in the ship lost off the Plate.

    CHAPTER XXIX 2010

  • "Now is that any way to talk to an old ship-mate?"

    Ship Of Magic Hobb, Robin 1998

  • "It ain't but a wee bit to do for a good ship-mate," Blodgett remarked with a deprecatory wave of his hand.

    The Mutineers Charles Boardman Hawes

  • Folgier of Nantucket, both young men, and one of them an old ship-mate of mine.

    American Prisoners of the Revolution Danske Dandridge

  • Waltham, and he is merely wondering if Mr. Mellaire was a ship-mate of Sidney Waltham eighteen years ago in the ship lost off the Plate.

    Chapter 29 1914

  • But then the projector of the voyage might have found competitors for the helm, which he wished to manage; and he had accordingly secured an unambitious ship-mate, in a son of Captain Loxley.

    Camps and Firesides of the Revolution 1902

  • In a minute Diamond's old ship-mate resumed his tale.

    The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea Alfred Ollivant 1900

  • As yet, he does not dream that Mr. Mellaire is Sidney Waltham, and he is merely wondering if Mr. Mellaire was a ship-mate of Sidney Waltham eighteen years ago in the ship lost off the Plate.

    The Mutiny of the Elsinore Jack London 1896

  • I wonder they didn't fling me overboard after getting the carcass of their precious ship-mate out of my fingers.

    'Twixt Land and Sea Joseph Conrad 1890

  • The only person from whom we received any reliable information about Richard Johnson was an old ship-mate of his, a wandering, adventurous character, now, I believe, in Paraguay, where we cannot readily communicate with him.

    The Mark Of Cain Andrew Lang 1878

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