The Semaphore was still free to produce that 'watery grave' any time it was in want of a phrase to round a paragraph.
It is useless to search for your child, for by the time this meets your eye your little one will have found a watery grave.
For was there not a bond of sympathy between this poor little one, whom those who should have loved and cared for had consigned to a watery grave, and herself, who had sought the same watery grave to end her own wretched existence?
When he had but short time to live, His strength and skill he both did give, His poor fellow man to save, From laying in a watery grave.
Had he found there a watery grave, Or borne along on crest of wave, Think of the mother's agony wild, Gazing through dark tunnel for her child.
The sound of the waves sighing over Irene's watery grave in the lonesome nights breaks my heart!
One long, terrible shriek as of some wounded, dying creature, startled the midnight hour with its despairing echoes, then she sprang wildly forward with the desperate intent to share her daughter's watery grave.
The Lord bless them all, and look over them when trying to rescue their fellow-men from a watery grave!
There were two men at the wheel, trying to keep her off before the gale, but it was of no avail, for she refused to answer her helm, and lay throbbing as if undecided whether to seek a watery grave, or to continue her fight for victory.
If not, he prefers a watery graveto claim him with his stomach empty.
Gone, indeed, to a watery grave, and perhaps the others also.
A Welsh skipper, however, once cleared his ship of them without the risk of a watery grave, by drawing her up to a cheese-laden ship in harbour.
In fact, it is not Davy Jones they think of at all now, but his Locker; for to go to Davy's Locker is to be lost at sea and to find a watery grave.
Up to this time, no one, it is supposed, had been lost; several had reached land in safety, but those still on the wreck were exposed every moment to a watery grave.
About two hundred of the passengers and crew held on to the vessel, although the raging sea was breaking over her, and every wave washed some of them to a watery grave.
And very pleasant to my mind it is to meet a fellow creature whom I have been the means, in the hands of a wonder-working Providence, of saving from a watery grave.
On the eighth day a boat came from the shore, and when within hail was capsized, and one of the noble crew found a watery grave.
Those on deck, seeing the wave as it arose and was sweeping towards them, caught hold of the rigging, and thereby saved themselves probably from a watery grave.
The noble example of our British heroes, who found a watery graveby the sinking of the above-named vessel, will never be forgotten.
Words are quite too weak to express the grateful feelings of my heart; but I shall ever remember your great courage, humanity, and kindness, in attempting and accomplishing our rescue from a watery grave.
The blue sky was above us and the blue waters beneath, and midnight shed her mysterious shapes and phantom shadows around us, and awoke memories of steamboat disasters and perishing crews sinking into a watery grave.
The horse, unused to that mode of conveyance, became restive, and in his plungings to liberate himself precipitated the unfortunate girl, with all her gay dreams of life and pleasure, into a watery grave.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "watery grave" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
