In rescuing the survivors the seamanship displayed by the Conyngham was particularly praiseworthy.
The survivors of the Jacob Jones naturally had no means of communication, since the wireless had gone down with their ship; and now Rose, at considerable risk to himself, sent out an "S.
Submarine Losses: It has been found necessary to accept no reports of submarine losses as authentic and certain unless survivors are captured or the submarine itself is definitely located by dragging.
Another message would tell of a vessel that was being shelled; another would tell of a ship that was sinking; while other messages would give the location of lifeboats which were filled with survivors and ask for speedy help.
On occasion the Admiral would personally lead an expedition which was going to the relief of a torpedoed vessel, looking for survivors adrift in small boats.
The duties of our destroyers, in these earliest days, were to hunt for submarines, to escort single ships, to pick up survivors in boats, and to go to the rescue of ships that were being attacked.
At whatever hour these survivors arrived they were sure of the most warm-hearted attentions from headquarters.
But the survivors felt that they had well and nobly sustained the honor of their corps, and of their state.
Most of the latter dropped at once, and the survivors fled, only too glad to get away in safety with their lives.
None of them, or of the survivors of those on the trains, had any thought that the catastrophe was anything but an accident, and no attempt was made to search for possible enemies.
With all their little comforts destroyed, the survivors were thrown still further back into barbarism.
The survivors of a small hamlet, at the foot of Morambala, were in a state of starvation, having lost their food by one of his marauding parties.
Several of the missionaries and their native attendants, from Kuruman, had succumbed to the fever, and the survivors had retired some weeks before our arrival.
There were a few wretched survivors in a village above the Ruo; but the majority of the population was dead.
Before going to Tette our Batoka friend, Masakasa, was one of a party that came to steal some of the young women; but Sinamane, to their utter astonishment, attacked them so furiously that the survivors barely escaped with their lives.
But the settlers were terror stricken, several hundred had been murdered and the survivors had but one thought and that was to get their families safely into the nearest forts.
In these laws, in fact, Bismarck, who deeply offended and irretrievably alienated the survivors of his own generation, won over and secured for himself and also for the Government the complete loyalty of the rising generation.
At the end of the Seven Years' War boys had stood at the head of the army, the only survivors of their families.
Nor did the survivors fare much better: some reached the haven of refuge only to fall dead in its very streets.
It was during his stay in the islands that the survivors of the wrecked vessel, the Hornet, came in, after long privation at sea.
Every day the force dwindled, and the physical weakness of the survivors had patently increased.
The survivors returned by and by with poles and beams, with which as battering-rams they drove at the fast-closed doors.
Fever, bred in the damp vaults in which most of the people lived, was carrying off hundreds every day; yet the emaciated survivors scarcely murmured, and the faintest suggestion of surrender was still sufficient to carry a man to the gibbet.
In the intervals of fighting the worn survivors were to be seen sitting on stone benches, shivering in spite of their cloaks, their hands scarcely able to hold their weapons.
Behind the barricade he found Tio Jorge with a few others, the only survivors of the band which had come up with such ardour and enthusiasm.
The survivors were in a miserable state of despondency, but it was not till morning dawned that Tús beheld the full extent of his defeat and the ruin that surrounded him.
They had then gone on board, rescued their countrymen, and carried off the survivors of the brig's crew as captives into the interior.
The survivors escaping in a boat, landed on the coast of Barbary, where they were made prisoners by the Moors.
It would seem as if the guardian angels who had been hovering round his death-pillow had well-nigh reached the gates of glory ere the sorrowing survivors discovered that the clay tabernacle was all that was left of a "brother beloved!
The terrible possibility for the first time flashes across the minds of the sisters, of a desolate home, and of themselves being the desolate survivors of a loved brother.
But the officers of the army recalled the "Rump" Parliament, the survivors of the Long Parliament.
The Proserpine had foundered at sea; several lives had been lost, and of the survivors one had since died, owing to the hardships he had endured.
For the first few minutes after the Proserpine went down the survivors sat benumbed, as if awaiting their turn to be ingulfed.
While it is to some extent a personal record, the mental impressions of other survivors have been compared and found to be in many cases closely in agreement.
It is only right to add that the majority of the New York papers were careful only to report such news as had been obtained legitimately from survivors or from Carpathia passengers.
Some five weeks after the survivors from the Titanic landed in New York, I was the guest at luncheon of Hon.
After luncheon I was asked to relate to those present the experiences of the survivors in leaving the Titanic and reaching the Carpathia.
Lifebelts would keep the survivors afloat for hours; but the cold water was what stopped the cries.
He had read Frederick's name in the newspaper among the survivors and had come from his home in Meriden, several hours' ride from New York, to see his old friend.
Do you know," said Frederick in his overflowing spirits, "do you know, I am actually one of the survivors of the Roland?
The next four or five days there won't be a man or woman in New York who can vie in celebrity with the survivors of the Roland.
The afternoon of the third day the captain, never suspecting that he was speaking to one of the survivors of the Roland, said: "It was hereabouts that the Roland went down about three months ago.
It was extremely disturbing to him that the other men in the bar-room recognised the group as the survivors of the Roland.
Now that Miss Hahlström happens to be one of the survivors of the Roland and has lost her father besides, she has become the sensation of the season.
It was an easy matter for the survivors of the expedition to exaggerate these things, and they probably took great liberties with the facts; but there is no doubt that the Indians possessed many pearls.
De Soto himself found a grave in the waters of the Mississippi, and the survivors who made their way back home were broken in health and spirits.
The dying man, or as in the case of Clerk Saunders, the ghost begs of his survivors to "wish my soul good rest.
The lugger lay helpless alongside the Sea-horse; the survivors of her crew had run below, and dared not return on deck to work their guns, as they would have been swept by the musketry of the Sea-horse.
The survivors made their way up the hillside, and then making a detour, fell upon the rear of the column, killed fifty stragglers and plundered the baggage.
The survivorswere so utterly dispirited that nothing could induce them to face England's sea-kings again.
Some of the survivors retraced their steps; the rest, among whom was Walter, reached Constantinople, where they awaited the arrival of Peter and his companions.
The winter had passed and the spring had come again before the few survivors reached their beloved fatherland.
The puny survivors look and act like the relics they are.
Their survivors are now restricted to two widely separated regions--the Galapagos Islands, 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador, and the Mascarenes and other western islands in the Indian Ocean.
They were summoned before the priestesses, who were also the prophetesses, being the two survivors out of the three.
When Cæsar was informed of the execution of these persons, he regretted it, and, considering the survivors worthy of his favour and protection, bestowed upon them this honourable appointment.
The five unfortunate survivors would fain have remained huddled together, but the natives pointing to some huts on the hillside, urged them thither by the language of shouts and blows.
There was certainly a promontory, made by the ridge of a hill, and also a river between him and anysurvivors there might be.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "survivors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
