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  • Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, hath not old custom made this life more sweet than that of painted pomp?

    Whatever the Fuck You Want Hal Duncan 2010

  • Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, hath not old custom made this life more sweet than that of painted pomp?

    Archive 2010-02-01 Hal Duncan 2010

  • Again, he that knows what he is doing through the success of his performance attains to fame and honour; his peers and co-mates are glad to make use of him, whilst his less successful neighbours, failing in their affairs, are anxious to secure his advice, his guidance, his protection; 484 they place their hopes of happiness in him, and for all these causes485 single him out as the chief object of their affection.

    Memorabilia 2007

  • Of his co-mates on the throne the elder in rank was a west country baronet, who, not content with fatting beeves and brewing beer like his sires, aspired to do something for his country.

    The Three Clerks 2004

  • Conversely, his older brother is dearly loved by those who have followed him into exile as 'co-mates and brothers'.

    Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

  • It took a lot of explaining to make it understood that the hearth which we thought consisted of one woman and her two co-mates was really one man and his two co-mates, except that one of them was a woman, and one of them was a man.

    The Mammoth Hunters Auel, Jean M. 1985

  • That night, when his "co-mates in exile" were asleep, he gently inserted the steel in the lock of his ankle band.

    In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang

  • Let not the non-gnostic portion of our readers imagine, that if they haunt the justice-seat of Birnie and his judicial co-mates, that they will ever witness such pleasant, sparkling, humorous examinations as those reported in the columns of the papers which matinally grace their breakfast-tables.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 267, August 4, 1827 Various

  • Dear tribes of nature! co-mates ye of nature's wandering son --

    The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

  • Mussoorie, shirked risking Tods 'displeasure for fear his co-mates should look down on him.

    Plain Tales from the Hills Rudyard Kipling 1900

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