"Mates" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... lonely tenant of the leafless vine, Granted the right to grow thy mates beside, To ripen thy sweet juices, but denied Thy ...
— Verses • Susan Coolidge
... Dorado was a five-masted schooner, twelve years old, and left Astoria, Oregon, for Antofagasta, Chile, on a Friday, more than seven months before, with a crew of eleven all told: the captain, two mates, a Japanese cook, and seven men before the mast. She was a man-killer, as sailors term sailing ships poorly equipped and undermanned. The crew were of all sorts, the usual waterfront unemployed, wretchedly paid and badly treated. The ...
— Mystic Isles of the South Seas. • Frederick O'Brien
... for Bles had spoken of their marriage; with twined hands and arms, and lips ever and again seeking their mates, they walked the ...
— The Quest of the Silver Fleece - A Novel • W. E. B. Du Bois
... mottled and barred with black and white, her head light brown, her breast decorated with a large black patch, and her other under parts yellow. Had the couple not been seen together flitting about the nest, they would not have been regarded as mates, so ...
— Birds of the Rockies • Leander Sylvester Keyser
... Shipwreck are not those in which he appears to versify parts of his own Marine Dictionary, or in which he makes vain efforts to describe the vestiges of Grecian grandeur, but those in which, as in the above passage, he mates with the sublime and terrible 'natural' phenomena he meets in his voyage—the gathering of the storm—the treacherous lull of the sea, breathing itself like a tiger for its fatal spring—the ship, now walking the calm waters of the glassy sea, and now wrestling like a demon ...
— The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer - With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes • Rev. George Gilfillan [Ed.]
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