He says: “When the battleship Hatsure was sunk in May, a sailor was laid on the operating-table who had a piece of shell 2½ inches long bedded in his right thigh.
Captain Boggs in the Varuna sunk five gunboats one after another, then his vessel’s sides were stove in by a ram; but with his last broadside before he sank he disabled her.
The clay was too hard for us, so, as the wall was just over a sunk road, and the bank below the wall soft, I threw a dam across the lower part of the road and turned in yon little stream.
There is an enormous boom across the entrance, and many ships have been sunkclose to shore.
The whole track between Acre and Gaza was strewn with the dead bodies of those who had sunk under fatigue or from their wounds.
All the ships were sunk by the 6th of December, with the exception of the Sevastopol, which steamed out under Captain von Essen and anchored under the batteries of Tiger’s Tail.
One might have thought that his heart would have sunk within him at the loneliness of his situation, at the feeling of desertion by England, and of treachery in his own garrison.
When the smoke cleared away the battery had gone into fragments and sunk in the Mississippi.
He called a council of war, and proposed that, as the Japanese had taken so many forts and sunk their warships, terms of surrender should be proposed.
I left them, sunk with sighs of satisfaction, on the sofa in the hall, their black toques and gloves on a chair beside them, gazing at the view through the open front door while I went to see how the potatoes were getting on.
Their character seems gradually to have sunk down to the level of the peasantry, in proportion as the belief in them was consigned to the same class.
I laid me under a lind so green, My eyes they sunk in sleep; There came two maidens going along, They fain would with me speak.
Mrs. Melrose had sunk back into her chair; her face was putty-coloured, beads of water stood on her forehead.
For Regina herself it did not matter, but Mrs. Melrose was one of the city's prominent and wealthy women, and Regina could not remember that she had ever sunk to the use of a public conveyance before to-day.
It was true; her nose had sunk into her face with a ghastly and corpse-like effect.
His hands were in his pockets and his head sunk on his breast, his legs outstretched before him.
Annette von Arlestein looked at the ruined face, pale beneath the grey locks, the thin bare throat, the sunkdark eyes, the lined mouth.
I 'scaped by swimming; the two old gentlemen Took hold of one another, andsunk together.
So doth the pilot find his star, when storms Have even sunk his bark.
They had all married young except himself, and so sunk deeper into the mire of poverty, pressed down by a rapidly-increasing progeny.
As they were nearing a village, the boy's headsunk on his father's shoulder.
She sunk her teeth into his arm while he screamed.
She was generally more or less distraite, as though sunk in a brown study; from this she would recover herself with a start.
It might have been Doctor Winchester who hadsunk down overcome; but I could not be sure.
Beside the couch Doctor Winchester lay on his back as though he had sunk down and rolled over; and on the farther side of the sarcophagus, where they had stood, lay Mr. Trelawny and Mr. Corbeck.
By the time they arrived there, the sun had sunk behind the mountains, and the quiet stars were riding serenely above the broken, floating clouds, and in their hearts was peace.
As the midnight hour drew on, Barry's head, from sheer weariness, sunk upon his breast.
And Susan Lepage had sunk down in the big chair in the kitchen, and had fallen asleep, worn out with fatigue and anxiety.
The Rabbi had sunk back into the seat and buried his face in his hands, and through the window over his head the moonlight was pouring into the church like unto the far-off radiance from the White Throne.
Three fine deerskins lay on the floor, and one side of the room was hung with tapestry; but the most striking piece of furnishing in the room was an oak cupboard, sunk a foot into the wall.
Still, the drumming behind grew louder, and he had scarcely sunk into the shadows when Alton, stripped to shirt and trousers, rode in.
The fire had sunk in the stove, and it was then towards two o'clock in the morning, when man's vitality is at its lowest.
Every dollar has been sunk in the mills and roads except what we took up the first loan with.
He had set off in somewhat less, and the men he left behind stood still listening until the sound of his footsteps had sunk into the stillness.
The meal was rather dismal, for night had fallen, and the boys were looking anxiously at the condition of the road, and the hopeless state of the wagon wheels, which had sunk into the sloppy turf almost up to the hubs.
The wagon slowly rose out of the muddy bed into which it had sunk during the past week's rain, and getting into the road, moved at a brisk pace along.
Recovering from his terror, he sunk down again, O save me from myself!
The work proceeded rapidly and without a hitch until the caisson had been sunk thirteen feet and a half.
The steamer had sunk too deep for any one to be below, and live.
Several submarines have been sunk in the Great War, and one or more of these might be fished up by wreckers.
But the weight of this enormous mass of stone had sunk it into the ground on which it rested to the depth of some four or five inches, and the adherence of this earth socket, thus hollowed, neutralized Trigaud's efforts.
Looking about her she saw him, with his hands clasped behind his back, his head sunk on his breast, sadly walking in the direction of Saint-Philbert.
We should not have had a model worth looking at had the embroidery been left to her,” said Dora to herself, not without a feeling of self-complacence, as she glanced at her twin who had again sunk into slumber.
These are among the endless instances of the abject state to which psychology had sunk from the reign of Charles I.
The tube, when in position, was lowered down upon its bearings on the pier by opening valves in the pontoons, which thus sunk sufficiently to ease them of their load.
The vanquished king sunk into the grave; his children were made captive; and his dominions, as far as Mount Hæmus, were subdued or ravaged by the northern invaders.
Roger, his second son and successor, immediately sunk to the humble station of a duke of Apulia: the esteem or partiality of his father left the valiant Bohemond to the inheritance of his sword.
They ascended the throne without power, and sunk into the grave without a name.
The fatigues of a summer's campaign exhausted their strength and patience, and they sunk in despair if their voracious appetite was disappointed of a plentiful supply of wine and of food.
In the eventful period of the siege and defence of Antioch, the crusaders were alternately exalted by victory or sunk in despair; either swelled with plenty or emaciated with hunger.
The most convenient stations were occupied by the bands of the blue and green factions of the circus; and their furious conflicts, which had shaken the capital, were insensibly sunk to an emulation of servitude.
Like them, ye sunk after a feeble effort; ye were vanquished by your own cowardice; and withdrew from the scene of action to injure and despoil our Christian subjects of the Sclavonian coast.
Notwithstanding some transient success, the Greeks were sunk in their own esteem and that of their neighbors.
