Which preposition to use with messmate

of Occurrences 5%

I felt towards those boys as the messmates of the Ancient Mariner did towards him after he had shot the albatross.

in Occurrences 4%

The sailor of the Baltic has his secret rites, and his manner of propitiating the gods of the wind; the Mediterranean mariner tears his hair, and kneels before the shrine of some impotent saint, when his own hand might better do the service he implores; while the more skilful Englishman sees the spirits of the dead in the storm, and hears the cries of a lost messmate in the gusts that sweep the waste he navigates.

on Occurrences 2%

They took me down below, An' they laid me with a row Of killed and wounded messmates on a table

to Occurrences 2%

Here is Guinea, who is no better than a nigger, and therein far from being a fitting messmate to a white man; but, being used to look at his black face for four-and-twenty years, d'ye see, the colour has got into my eye, and now it suits as well as another.

for Occurrences 1%

This was the Rev. Jedidiah Woods, a native of New England, who had long served as a chaplain in the same regiment with the captain, and who, being a bachelor, on retired pay, had dwelt with his old messmate for the last eight years, in the double capacity of one who exercised the healing art as well for the soul as for the body.

under Occurrences 1%

It may easily be conceived indeed that the separation from a friend and messmate under such circumstances, must have cast for a time a shade of sadness over our minds.

Which preposition to use with  messmate