And when I got to sleep I hadn't slept a moment, it seemed to me, when I started wide awake to see those infernal hanging boughs with a sort of nightmare idea that the Lachlan hadn't gone, or had come back, and he and Mitchell had hanged themselves sociably-Mitchell for sympathy and the sake of mateship.
"Over the Sliprails"
Henry Lawson
The College Wreck who sunk beneath, Then rose above his shame, Tramps West in mateship with the man Who cannot write his name.
"Joe Wilson and His Mates"
Henry Lawson
Boast as you will of your mateship now - crippled and mean and sly - The lines of suspicion on friendship's brow were traced since the days gone by.
"In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses"
Henry Lawson