They spoke of the sea as a cow given to their ancestors by God, and that brought forth every winter for their benefit; thus they looked on shipwrecks as a positive blessing.
These bordered on one of the water-highways of civilisation; a great fleet passed annually in their view, and of the shipwrecks of the world they were the scene and cause of a proportion wholly incommensurable to their size.
Not long since several accounts of actual shipwrecks and disasters at sea were published[159:1].
The Loss of the Kent, and Narratives of the Shipwrecks of the Lady Hobart packet, the Cabalva, &c.
May his summer tourists be many and his winter shipwrecks few!
No tales of wreckers, or of fights between smugglers and revenue officers, reached our ears, but the stories of shipwrecks were endless.
There is that dreadful Henlopen, with its sandy shoals and shipwrecks on one hand, and that stream they call the Gulf on the other!
Besides, the natives, who scent shipwrecks as a vulture does a corpse, might have carried away every vestige of it.
But nothing was known of such a ship; they were told of theshipwrecks which had occurred, but there was nothing that afforded a clue to that which they sought.
Loss of the Lady Hobart," Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea, 1812, iii.
Loss of the Centaur," Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea, 1812, iii.
Narrative of the Shipwreck of the Juno, 1795," Shipwrecksand Disasters at Sea, p.
The Clerk of Shipwrecks had never fallen from such a position, having never occupied one, but he had acquired the demeanor referred to without going through the preliminary exercises.
There was a little pause here, and then Mr. Mathers remarked: "I should think you'd be awfully bored with the long stories of shipwrecksthat the people come and tell you.
While the Bell-Rock lighthouse was in progress, Mr. Stevenson was often struck with the frequent and distressing occurrence of shipwrecks at the Carr Rock.
Indeed, this wish to go abroad, to encounter dangers on the mighty deep, to visit foreign countries and climes, to faceshipwrecks and disasters, became a passion.
But for a long time these endeavours were far from being successful;[237] and it was even argued that, as shipwrecks were punishments sent by God, it was impious to be merciful to the victims.
We make such shipwrecks of devotion in public prayer, that if we have a shred of true religion about us, we are glad to get home and to shut our door.
It is want of affection, and want of imagination, that shipwrecks so many of our prayers.
Meantime secure on Garway cliffs, A savage race, by shipwrecks fed, Lie waiting for the founder'd skiffs, And strip the bodies of the dead.
Sometimes he entertained his guests with stories of his California life, and sometimes with those of shipwrecks in South America.
A list of all the shipwrecks that have occurred in the Royal Navy since the year 1793 has been appended to this volume, in the hope that it may be useful as a table of reference.
It would have been humiliating and afflicting, had this record of the Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy, in which there is so much to admire, been closed with the details of a calamity in any way disgraceful to the service.
She was as calm and quiet as though shipwrecks had been an every-day experience with her.
To be sure, in those other shipwrecks land had been near, and their greatest peril was over when once the boats got clear of the distressed ship without capsizing.
He had hated to think of the untold fathoms beneath him--depths which in his imagination were strewn with shipwrecks and the bones of lost mariners.
List of 22 Shipwrecks on the Island of Sanday, in the course of Twelve Years.
This list ofshipwrecks strongly points out the dangerous nature of the navigation of the seas and friths of the northern islands of Orkney.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shipwrecks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
