Crossword-Solution: MESSMATE 8 letters, 24 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Edmond said nothing; but he thought of his messmate; the one who had lain far back in the shadow; the one who had said nothing.

NJAL'S COUNSEL TO GUNNAR Steinvor, at Sandgil, besought Thorgrim the Easterling to take in hand the care of her goods, and not to sail away from Iceland, and so to keep in mind the death of his messmate and kinsman.

Them’s the times, my beauty, when a man may say to his messmate (previously a overhauling of the wollume), ‘A stiff nor’wester’s blowing, Bill; hark, don’t you hear it roar now! Lord help ’em, how I pitys all unhappy folks ashore now!’” Which quotation, as particularly applicable to the terrors of the ocean, the Captain delivered in a most impressive manner, concluding with a sonorous “Stand by!” “Were you ever in a dreadful storm?” asked Florence.

But ere he went aboard his boat, He placed around her little throat A ribbon, blue and yellow, On which he hung a double-tooth— A simple token this, in sooth— ’Twas all he had, poor fellow! “I often wonder,” he would say, When very, very far away, “If ANGELINA wears it? A plan has entered in my head: I will pretend that I am dead, And see how ANGY bears it.” The news he made a messmate tell.

The two bands on his breast, he informed me, were a tribute to the memory of a dead messmate from whom he had parted years ago--and surely a more touching tribute was never engraved on a tombstone.