Sentence examples for shipmates said from inspiring English sources

The pleasure of it -- waking only long enough to know you're dozing -- confirms something one of Ishmael's shipmates said in "Moby-Dick": "Damn me, it's worth a fellow's while to be born into the world, if only to fall right asleep".

His shipmates, he said, were "extraordinary fellows for standing the cold – with the thermometer at 22° below Bentzen goes up in his shirt and trousers to read the thermometer on deck".

"To a good shipmate," it said.

"He was an outstanding shipmate," his commanding officer said.

"We shall be as a city on a hill," said Winthrop to his shipmates on the voyage across the Atlantic.

"We only have one couple per show, and they have to carry the whole thing," said the creator of "Shipmates," John Tomlin, "So if it's someone who's dull and boring, it's not going to work".

"We are deeply saddened by the loss of our shipmate," Adm. Robert J. Papp Jr., the Coast Guard commandant, said in a statement.

"We weren't thinking; we didn't wait for electrical isolation," the 22-year-old sailor said today, describing how he and three shipmates ignored the rules against moving and working near live electric lines and rescued crew members in the hours after last month's suicide bombing of the Cole in Aden harbor, Yemen.

The official said crewmen, while showing signs of grieving over lost shipmates, were working round the clock.

It was unclear where he and his shipmates spent Saturday night, or whether they had been drinking, Captain Armstrong said.

Both said several times that they were here not to bust their shipmates but to help them out.