shipmets

Updated: June 15, 2025

Then, looking straight in front of him, with that strange air of a whipped dog which humble men wear when the hand of Heaven is upon them, he staggered up the beach toward the river and Farlingford. "Where are ye goin'?" some one asked. "Over to mine," was the reply. "A'm going to my old woman, shipmets." And he staggered away in the darkness.

Henry Seton Merriman - The Last Hope

When it comes a breeze he wants a doctor hisself, and how would that suit?" "Have you eaten anything?" "Well, no, sir. I was in that pain, sir, and I didn't want to moither my shipmets no more'n you, so I closes my teeth. It's the breed, sir bred to patience." "Well, the skipper must find us something now, at any rate."

James Runciman - A Dream of the North Sea