The next summer, the few of his crew who survived the winter built a vessel from the timber of the wreck: in this they reached Kamschatka and made known the miserable fate of their commander.
The presence of the bones and feathers of geese, however, showed that some had survived till the arrival of wild-fowl, about the end of May.
The early records of the whole Gentile world, as has been stated, concur in declaring the fact of a universal deluge; and yet the human race and all the more useful and important species of animals survived it.
Alexander received them with kindness, but in deep sorrow, for he had conceived the idea that the eight persons before him were all that had survived the perils of the sea.
If it had been a capital--a place of strength and renown--it was seldom rebuilt on the same spot, which was avoided as unfortunate by those who survived the catastrophe and returned to the ruins.
The case is different with the cities of northern Mesopotamia, which belonged to the Assyrian Empire, but existed before its rise, and survived its fall.
But the Assyrian survived in the new Babylonian Empire, which continued its policy of conquest, and the Greeks, who not long afterwards called the Babylonians themselves Assyrians, were in this not so very far from the truth.
However, the empire survived for a few years longer, though not in its full vigour.
If this be so, this Apis must have survived his wound nearly five years.
The memory of this extension of the sway of Egypt survived among the Egyptians of later days, embodied in the semi-mythical figure of the great King Sesostris.
The envoy was also an author, and his work, in two sections, had survived at least up to the second century B.
Of the dialog Plato was practically, if not actually, the originator, and the form has survived to our day.
Among its notable ruins is a Greek temple in the Doric order, which is one of the finest that have survived to our time.
While Richard lingered at Whitehall, his Protectorship could not be said to be extinct, and whatever of Cromwellianism survived anywhere apart from the central English Army might be rallied for the rescue.
Very possibly original copies of both have survived somewhere; and I should be glad to hear of the fact.
Is the communal administration of meadow and wastes to survive (as it has survived in France and Belgium) or is it to disappear?
In the sixteenth century this condition of things survived in its entirety on many manors and partially on most.
It survived from an older order of things into a world in which the only serious causes of destitution are personal and not economic, and in which therefore it is quite inappropriate.
Ought we not to ask why the open field system survived so long, rather than why it partially disappeared in the sixteenth century?
Our existing commons are remnants--remnants which have survived the deluge of eighteenth century Private Acts, mainly because they consist of land too poor to pay counsel's fees.
A few arches of the ground-floor colonnade had survived in outline.
The carved masonry of the earlier building to the right of the facade had survived in a state of severe mutilation.
So it was prophesied; but Hiram survived all these dismal forebodings, until the people gave up and concluded to let him live.
The fair Geraldine was living forty years afterwards: she survived for a short time her second husband, Lord Lincoln; and with him lies buried under a sumptuous tomb at Windsor: she left no descendants.
How long she survived her husband is not known; but though scarce past the bloom of youth at the period of her loss, we have no account of her marrying again.
She died in 1552, having survived the poet about nineteen years; and she was buried in the church of San Rocco at Ferrara.
The memory of the kiss which Marguerite d'Ecosse[115] gave to Alain Chartier, has long survived the verses he wrote in her praise.
Sydney, about a year afterwards, married the daughter of Secretary Walsingham, and survived his marriage but a short time.
I vaguely called to mind that Peary had survived a blizzard in the open: but wasn't that in the summer?
There remained the men and the one pony which had survived out of the three sent back from Bluff Depôt, namely Jimmy Pigg.
Of course, Knight had a specially cleared place with all sorts of precautions, otherwise he would never have survived these beasts, which even tried to nibble your boots as you stood--staring hard at you the whole time.
Caled survived his brethren about three years: and the tomb of the Sword of God is shown in the neighborhood of Emesa.
But his spirit survivedin his brother Humphrey, the third count of Apulia.
The more fortunate Arabs, who survived the war and persevered in the faith, were restrained by their abstemious leader from the abuse of prosperity.
The best proof that what he did say was undeserved, is that that rival's reputation for integrity and public spirit has survived even his terrible onslaught.
His reputation for ferocious cruelty has survived the remembrance even of his successful plunder of other people's property; before the campaigns of Cromwell there was no better synonym for wanton cruelty than the name of Sir Charles Coote.
The faithful Lucas, however, survivedhis success little better than two years; he died amid the very sincere regrets of all men who were not enemies of their country.
Ormond obeyed, not without regret; he survived his fall about three years.
Fitzmaurice, with his friends, having survived shipwreck on the coast of Galicia, entered the same harbour (Dingle) on the 17th of July.
Had it been destroyed during the night they would have been in a sorry plight indeed, but on the contrary it had survived the pounding of the waves, which had only succeeded in forcing it closer to the beach.
The boat was a serviceable twenty foot dory, and Phil felt thankful that it had survived the general disaster.
On the site of an old cockpit opposite Whitehall in London was a block of buildings used from the 17th century as offices by the treasury and the privy council, for which the old name survived till the early 19th century.
The original name, however, survived among the English-speaking inhabitants for many years after this change.
Coleridge remained for some years a widower, but married in 1885 Amy Augusta Jackson Lawford, whosurvived him.
A few survived her tests and came out alive, though more or less disfigured, where she had found impurities.
But the fuller form of the signary survived in Karia with thirty-six signs, and seven more in Iberia, thus giving values to forty-three.
It is not perfect, but enough has survived to suffice for decipherment of the general tenor of the inscriptions.
One boy, Quintus Fabius Vibulánus, alone survived to preserve the name and gens of the Fabii.
She survived Augustus fifteen years, and died in 29.
A few passages, however, survivedhere and there at long intervals.
The fact was that, having smirched myself and survived the smirching, I was unable to fret myself very much over Lily's smirching.
Lottie lived in one of these unfinished streets in a tumble-down house that had survived the fields by which not long ago it had been surrounded.
An enthusiasm for Italy, which survivedmany disappointments, dictated some of the most impressive passages of his Harold, and inspired the Lament of Tasso and the Ode on Venice.
Sir Roger had married Gwladis, the daughter of Sir David Gamme, who survived him, and became the wife of another hero of Agincourt, Sir William Thomas of Raglan; and Sir Watkin was by his marriage related to Sir Roger.
As it is, Henry's establishmentssurvived him little more than a century; and the lands which he had destined to support them passed away into other hands, and were alienated from religious purposes altogether.
It remained in possession of the eighth who survived the battle.
He died in 1055, having survivedhis atrocious wife Zoe two years.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "survived" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
