How To Use Messmate In A Sentence
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The country traversed, consisted of scrubby flats, and low sandy ridges, timbered with bloodwood, messmate, mimosa, melaleuca, grevillea, and two or three species of the sterculia or curriijong, then in full blossom.
Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland
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He'd assume, quite rightly, that some sailorman like himself had landed there in the past, and maybe if he was of sentimental romantic inclination he'd put it in his pocket for his girlfriend or to show his messmates.
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‘Of course he'll live, ’said his messmates. ‘Ain't the doctor pumped him dry, and blown out his gaff with physic?’
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I knew you'd like my ` kettler, '" he observed, with a self-satisfied air, as he sat down with his messmates, who gathered round him.
The Three Commanders
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Dominant species include brown stringybark (Eucalyptus baxteri), manna gum (E. viminalis), messmate stringybark (E. obliqua), and mountain grey gum (E. cypellocarpa).
Southeast Australia temperate forests
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Dominant species include brown stringybark (Eucalyptus baxteri), manna gum (E. viminalis), messmate stringybark (E. obliqua), and mountain grey gum (E. cypellocarpa).
Southeast Australia temperate forests
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Brown stringybark is restricted to soils of low fertility, whereas messmate stringybark becomes more frequent as soil quality improves.
Southeast Australia temperate forests
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For most fishermen, the goal was to take from 15 to 30 trout a day, enough to furnish a good meal for themselves and their messmates.
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Joe Matkin, with his moderate tastes, watched in amusement as his messmates came staggering and slipping up the gangplank and tried to form coherent replies to the enraged officer of the watch.
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He reminded Olmos of his old messmate, Hopi, back in the war.
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When one congressman failed to vote with his messmates another congressman complained,‘We let him… sit at the same table with us, but we do not speak to him… He has betrayed those with whom he broke bread.’
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Perhaps by analogy with the compounds ‘schoolmate,’ ‘messmate,’ ‘playmate’, Edmund is treating the nominalised adjective as a compound noun.
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“No, nor yet a peltast”; but he had been ordered by his messmates to drive a mule, although he was a free man.
Anabasis
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Ado!" cried Rodney angrily, "is it not bad enough to be called messmate by _you_, and not be able to deny it?
The Lifeboat
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A letter, written by him in 1841 to his old "messmate," Commodore
James Fenimore Cooper
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One authority asserts that the bird and the snake are nearly always found together, and seems to imply that a friendship exists between them, for the bird is referred to as a "messmate" of the snake.
My Tropic Isle
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Unwillingly forced to read his letter aloud to his table at sea, Carl came across this bit and a lump rose in his throat as playful jeers rose from his messmates.
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an officers 'mess;" i.e. a meal taken in common at the same table; and so, "to mess together," "messmate," and so on.
Notes and Queries, Number 39, July 27, 1850
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Fighting for a cause has less influence on behavior than fighting for messmates.
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Brown stringybark is restricted to soils of low fertility, whereas messmate stringybark becomes more frequent as soil quality improves.
Southeast Australia temperate forests
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Over large areas, either of two eucalypts, messmate stringybark Eucalyptus obliqua and Smithton peppermint Eucalyptus nitida, is found emergent from rain forest, the former species on the better soils in the east and the latter on the poorer soils mainly in the west.
Tasmanian Wilderness, Australia
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Ellen thinks that the stranger has made a flimsy connection between the name ‘messmate’ and mates on a troopship.
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Over large areas, either of two eucalypts, messmate stringybark Eucalyptus obliqua and Smithton peppermint Eucalyptus nitida, is found emergent from rain forest, the former species on the better soils in the east and the latter on the poorer soils mainly in the west.
Tasmanian Wilderness, Australia
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But I say, messmate, that is no reason why we should not believe that all these things are; but, on the contrary, that God, who creates and cares for the smallest birds, watches over us also.
Peter the Whaler
