We had parted two days before this from Maono and Illora, who were to explore part of the bank we had left unvisited, and to meet us again at the island where we had been so nearly wrecked at the mouth of the igarape.
Before us appeared the island on which we so narrowly escaped being wrecked during the hurricane.
They destroyed the power-plant and wrecked several of the buildings.
The Crown was possibly guided by the precedent of Natal, where a premature Responsible Government was followed by two Zulu wars which well-nigh wrecked the province.
She'd be wrecked and these fellows would get what they could out of her, caring nothing for the lives lost.
On board the wrecked ship could be observed a scene of activity.
That bank was once partly wrecked because it was built by non-union labor, and we don't want it to happen again.
I am wrecked twice, and come back to the same place I ran away from, to find Joe waiting for me.
A single instance, a cant phrase, a fatherly manner, might have wrecked him, by arousing ancient or latent opposition.
The world lay wrecked behind him: Raynham hung in mists, remote, a phantom to the vivid reality of this white hand which had drawn him thither away thousands of leagues in an eye-twinkle.
Now he had no doubt that the chap was a revenue-officer who had come to spy out his smuggling operations, and only pretended to be in search of wrecked timber as a cloak for his real designs.
They are going some distance up the coast, to recover whatever may be found of a valuable timber raft belonging to us, and wrecked near Laughing Fish Cove during the gale of two days ago.
I do know, however, that they bear the private mark of the White Pine Mining Company, and formed part of a raft recently wrecked on this coast.
For the purpose of protecting the interests that he fancied to be thus endangered, Ralph Darrell disappeared from his home, made his way to the scene of his wrecked hopes, and took up a solitary abode in the deserted mining village.
He probably wreckedsome vessel and then took the wood and built this cave with it.
I've been thinking that if that wood was from an old, wrecked vessel, we might perhaps find something on it somewhere that would give us a clue.
He replied that he had no doubt, from the appearance and conduct of the savages, that we had been wrecked on one of the outlying Fiji Islands.
All our lives have been wrecked in punishment for that crime.
The misfortunes began with my father; his life has been wrecked and ruined in punishment for someone else’s crime.
And they explained to me bould Mickey that the crew was gone twenty miles up the coast to rescue the men on a steam schooner that was wrecked off the Siletz, word of it having come down but two hours since.
Everybody talked of the game, as wrecked sailors drifting in an open boat talked of shore.
Whiles I was watchin' thim the skipper of the Gladys pulls himself out of his wrecked pilot house and approaches me with heavy footfalls.
We gently cut the clothing off the wrecked form, and straightened the mangled limbs.
The ship was nearly wrecked on the Columbia River bar, and of the experience De Smet gives a peculiarly vivid description.
Returning in the spring in rude boats constructed from the fragments of their wrecked ship to Avatscha Bay, these survivors of Bering's voyage made known to the world the possibilities of the use of these treasures of the animal world.
As he had lost his earnings on the wrecked ship Mr. Minnick decided to return to San Francisco, where he lived for two more years.
Unfortunately the ship was wrecked after being at sea only twenty-four hours, being wedged among the rocks, with one part broken off.
Bob went forward to watch the work, holding on by stray cables that dangled from the wrecked masts.
The wrecked ship, now sunk almost to her deck level, seemed, save for the three boats, to be the only object in sight on the bosom of the tumultuous ocean.
When the tide went out late that afternoon they saw that it would he possible to get most of the things from the wrecked boat.
If I had known my ship was going to be wrecked I'd not have taken you on this voyage.
Not far from shore was a boat with a part of the exhausted crew from a vessel wrecked in the offing.
The master of the wrecked vessel, who was one of the boat's crew, was rescued from a watery grave by the further exertions of Moir and his companions, and was carried in a perfectly insensible state to the house.
Once or twice we have saved a solitary seaman by throwing a rope, or by sending in our dogs to drag others ashore; and some years ago there were seven men wrecked in the night, unknown to us.
The negotiations were wrecked upon the question of pelagic sealing.
Wilson and his party, who had been wreckedon returning from Khartum (Feb.
I have heard that the larger number of the war junks were wrecked or foundered in a great typhoon.
That is the usual course with wrecked sailors, but should you go with me, they might torture and execute you as a spy.
Many as had been picked up by whalers and clippers in the neighboring seas, I knew of no instance where the rescued men had not been either wrecked or blown too far out to sea to be able to navigate their miserable junks into a home port.
It had beggared Magnus and had driven him to a state of semi-insanity after he had wreckedhis honour in the vain attempt to do evil that good might come.
Seventy years of age and still at his post, holding there with the energy, with a concentration of purpose that would have wrecked the health and impaired the mind of many men in the prime of their manhood.
Slowly it was going back towards Bonneville, to the shops of the Railroad, the camp of the enemy, that enemy that had ruined him and wrecked him.
The room was wrecked and nearly every window of the house shattered.
When those eyes were turned away, the man's attention relaxed, the face became a battle-ground furrowed and scarred with wrecked pride and with bitterness and with shame and with agony.
The schooner, after leaving the island, sailed for Callao, but was wrecked on an uncharted reef three days east of Vaka, and went to pieces.
On that day they had been in the midst of shoals, and had seen many Chinese vessels wrecked about them; and the wind had been so violent that it had thrown down many strongly-rooted trees on land.
In this way they learned that Don Luis was on the same coast, and that he had been wrecked on the same day of St. Francis, and at the same time with us.
A fierce storm scatters the ships; that of Dasmarinas is driven upon the coast of China, and that in which Aduarte sails is wrecked on one of the Babuyanes group.
My brother was beyond the aid of the physician: his wreckedlife had reached a sudden term!
The events of the past weeks had wreckedhim in mind and body.
With soberness and morning Kwaiba straightway showed the results of wrecked nerves and distorted imagination.
This vessel, after some brushes with the enemy while cruising in the Mediterranean, was wrecked off the Isle of Saints on the Coast of France.
About the same date the second captain and clerk of a privateer obtained their liberty “for saving the lives of seventy-nine British seamen wrecked on the coast.
