He has frankly owned that if the decisive battle should have resulted in a Prussian defeat, he had resolved not to survive the shipwreck of his hopes and schemes.
Before two months had passed came vague rumors of a terrible shipwreck on the coast of Ireland.
Such are the proud designs of human kind, And so we suffer shipwreck every where!
Methinks, had we within our minds no more Than that one shipwreck on the fatal Ore,[170] That only thought may make us think again, What wonders God reserves for such a reign.
The legend was very common in Germania, and we find it again later in tales of shipwreck on the coast of Greenland.
The shipwreck may consequently be supposed to have taken place on the southernmost part of the east coast.
The shipwreckitself may nevertheless be historical.
Though he was only forty-five years old, he seemed nearer sixty, so much had the great shipwreck at the close of the eighteenth century aged him.
Seized with compassion for the shipwreck of our lives she turned back to memories of our pure past, yielding to meditations which were mutual.
In this great shipwreck I saw an isle on which I might be rescued.
All true, Watty; but there's been a general shipwreck of us all, somehow.
The violent conflict of passion to which her mind was exposed had made shipwreck of a glorious intellect, and the very exercise of emotion had exhausted the wells of feeling.
Of the Author's Second Voyage, and hisShipwreck upon an unknown Coast.
Of our Author's particular Studies and Profession; with an Account of his Embarking, and his first Shipwreck on the Coast of Spain.
Of the Author's Second Voyage; and his Shipwreck upon an unknown Coast.
The island of Melita (the modern Malta), where the shipwreck took place, lies directly south of Sicily.
His native force of character and Christian graces bring him to the front upon this voyage and in the time of shipwreck he takes over the command.
Horace wishes for Mævius, who was his aversion, no worse luck than a rough passage and shipwreck at the end of it.
I would have braved the stormiest seas, the maddest gale, shipwreck itself, rather than longer remain the helpless, hopeless thing a life of imprisonment was making of me.
True is it, the emergencies of life evoke the faculties and develop the resources, as the storm and the shipwreck display the hardy mariner.
Do you wish to begin your search in the Pampas again," replied the major, "when you are sure that the shipwreck of the Britannia did not take place on the Pacific or Atlantic coast?
But, gentlemen," inquired Lady Helena, "have you never heard of the shipwreck of the Britannia?
Madam," replied the young girl, "what do you know of the shipwreck of my father?
Have we not supposed, interpreted, and ascertained that it relates to the shipwreck or the captivity of Captain Grant?
First, that the shipwreck took place in the South Seas; and now I call your attention to the word gonia.
The wife of Lord Glenarvan, of Malcolm Castle, who published an advertisement in the Times in regard to the shipwreck of the Britannia?
They are situated so near our strict line of search, that it is worth our while to ascertain if there be on them any trace of theshipwreck of the Britannia.
He called the passengers on deck, for he did not wish, when the hour of shipwreck had come, that they should be confined in the cabin.
Indeed, thanks to the document, they no longer doubted that Captain Grant had survived the shipwreck with two of his sailors.
No vessel had for some time been lost on the coast; and, as the shipwreck had occurred only two years before, he could affirm with absolute certainty that the sailors had not been cast on that part of the western shore.
The shipwreckhad happened on the desert shores of Ika-Na-Maoui.
But, like a man who considers the main object in view, he first questioned his host concerning the shipwreck of the Britannia.
It explains in the most definite manner the shipwreck of the captain and the place of his captivity.
The principal cause of shipwreck on the shores of the United Kingdom is undoubtedly the want of harbours of refuge.
Formerly in the reports of the shipwreck committees so many vague generalities were dwelt upon, that the House of Commons had no definite conclusions upon which to proceed.
The most important object after the prevention ofshipwreck is that of rescuing the crew when the catastrophe takes place.
From the chief moral, or rather immoral, cause ofshipwreck and loss at sea, we pass to a consideration of the physical agents which act directly in producing these disasters.
The Voyage andShipwreck of St. Paul:+ With Dissertations on the Life and Writings of St. Luke, and the Ships and Navigation of the Ancients.
I was presently seated before a shipwreck of papers, all bordered with black, and from them I made the following few extracts.
The most valuable part of that unfortunate shipwreck is now in the hands of M.
One was entitled "The Light-house Tragedy," and was founded on the shipwreck of Captain Worthilake and his two daughters.
Can she ever forgive herself her own folly, and the cruelty that has made shipwreck of my life?
Thus we are left to the depressing influence of our own perplexing thoughts, and finally we take refuge in some human resource, and make shipwreck of faith.
Hundreds, we fear, have made shipwreckby rushing prematurely into work.
Nor has any vessel from our ports ever suffered shipwreck or harm.
Thus challenged Odysseus told her all the story of his shipwreck on the island of Calypso, of his long sojourn there, of his voyage on the raft, his second shipwreck, and his landing on the coast of Phæacia.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shipwreck" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
