A Carolina pirate, who began as a wrecker with the pirate Bellamy in the West Indies.
But Trask had a special personal interest In scourging the stars--he wanted to draw upon himself the fire of a certain enemy--a renegade planet-wrecker with a yen for galactic empire building.
The boiler-wrecker rose on his toes and pitched forward on his face.
With a quick turn of the ropes he had brought, Tom had the wrecker trussed up.
Before the war he had long contended with stubborn currents, and with ice, and by his energy and his talent for inventing new devices he had become the most successfulwrecker on the river.
Because he was in charge of a boat people began to call the young wrecker Captain Eads, and that was the only reason for a title which clung to him always.
In 1665, the ninth Earl of Argyll, son of him who had obtained ownership of the galleon, employed an expert diver and wrecker by the name of James Mauld to search for the treasure of ducats and plate.
In charge of the operations was placed Captain William Burns of Glasgow, a hard-headed and vastly experienced wrecker who had handled many important salvage enterprises for the marine underwriters in seas near and far.
Insinuations, whose purpose was to sow the seeds of doubt and suspicion and to represent Him as a usurper, as the subverter of the laws instituted by the Báb, and the wrecker of His Cause, were being incessantly circulated.
Still, we have seen neither wrecker nor turtler since we have been here; and that lessens the excellent chance you left Don Enrique.
It was quite evening when he returned to the cottage, and sat and chatted with poor Mrs Prawle for a time, before following the old wrecker down to his den below the cliff, and stopping with him to smoke a pipe.
They say she's a witch, and her father's as scoundrelly an old wrecker and smuggler as ever breathed.
Then they say such cruel things about Prawle, and call him wrecker and smuggler.
There was once a noted old wrecker called Kinsman: he lived in my father's time; and when no wreck was onward, he would get his wages by raising stone in a quarry by the sea-shore.
Back to the east, near the eastern Ohio state line, Martin could hear Car 207 calling for a wrecker and meat wagon.
When the wrecker collected the debris, it would be machine sifted in Pittsburgh and the plates fed to records and then relayed to Philadelphia where the identifications could be added to Ben's report.
At marker 412, which was also the Columbus turnoff, a big patrol wrecker was parked on the side strip, engines idling, service and warning lights blinking.
Car 56 rolled back into the police lane while behind it, the wrecker hooked onto the disabled car and swung north into the crossover.
A slow cargo wrecker was already on the way from Pittsburgh barracks to pick up the wreckage and haul it away.
With the best his rough wardrobe affords does the wrecker clothe them, while his good wife, getting Tom up, relates her story, and hastens back with him to her domicile.
The wrecker must needs acquaint Tom Dasher, bring him to his aid, and, though the storm yet rages, go search the beating surf where roll the unfortunates.
The kettle begins to sing, and the steam fumes from the spout, and the hardy wrecker brings his bottle of old Jamaica, and his sugar; and such a bowl of hot punch was never made before.
But the experience of Pharaoh and the danger of our rambling wrecker are not the only instances of the wall of waters or the destruction it causes.
The wrecker on the Florida reefs, who steps from the Peninsula into the marine world, will tell you there is nothing so like the land as the water.
The wreckersaid that tow cloth was still cast up in such storms as this.
Before winter the wrecker painfully carries these things up the bank on his shoulders by a long diagonal slanting path made with a hoe in the sand, if there is no hollow at hand.
Not even that precipitate wrecker of splendid possibilities, Alexander the Great, has been so magnified and dressed up for the admiration of careless and uncritical readers.
On the other hand, there are those who see him only as a wrecker of the slowly maturing possibilities of a free and tranquil Hellenized world.
A wrecker who had gone to watch the shore, saw, as the sun went down, a full-rigged vessel standing off and on.
And the wreckerof Morwenstow answered and pleaded in excuse, as in the case of undiluted brandy after meals, 'It is Cornish custom.
The wrecker reached into the debris with its long steel arm, picked up the safe, and swung it into the superintendent's car.
In less than an hour they had a wrecker on the job, and by utilizing the outside track had established a detour which let Superintendent Kitchell's "special" through from the north.
The wrecker lives not on those who die, but on those whom he slays.
The wrecker had been there--whether he was of your country or mine I know not, but I fervently hope he belonged to neither.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wrecker" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
