Some suspected wreckershad been taken into custody when Mr. Duncan was accused, but nothing had been proved against them.
Then, too, we don't want to stumble on a nest of wreckerswithout knowing something of the lay of the ground.
Daylight revealed more clearly the haste with which the wreckers had removed their false lantern.
A film of the capture of wreckers would make an audience sit up and take notice.
But she'll come up farther this way," and he pointed down toward the rocks opposite which the boys had first surprised the wreckers at work.
My father is innocent, I'm sure of it; and I believe we can prove it, once we have these wreckers arrested.
No danger to the light, now that them peskywreckers have been caught," remarked one of the fishermen.
The men well knew the way nearly to the place where the boys had discovered the wreckers at work, and so they would not have to rely on Joe and Blake to guide them until they were almost there.
The wreckers were busy putting up their lantern, and were making as much noise, talking and hammering on the apparatus, as though they were far removed from possible discovery.
But the wreckers outnumbered our friends two to one, and some, if not all, of the desperate characters might have escaped had not reinforcements appeared.
They realized that the wreckers would want to cover up their trail, and would take a way that would not seem to lead anywhere.
Once more they advanced until Joe and Blake recognized the place where they had been hiding, and whence they had looked into the open place where the wreckers had been putting up their false light.
The chance, I say, was a good one, when you consider how many of them devils of wreckers hang about these reefs.
The wreckers went out the moment the news of the calamity of the Swash reached their ears.
If so, we must be well off the reef, and out of the track of wreckers and turtlers.
At first we thought that her captain wished to communicate with us, and perhaps we did not regard the signal of distress, which a mariner would have understood, and he cursed us for cold-hearted wreckers who turned our backs on him.
But are we not all wreckers contriving that some treasure may be washed up on our beach, that we may secure it, and do we not infer the habits of these Nauset and Barnegat wreckers from the common modes of getting a living?
The few wreckers were either going or coming, and the ships and the sand-pipers, and the screaming gulls overhead; nothing stood still but the shore.
The wreckers recoiled, now convinced that the lad meant no less than he said.
Were the wreckers trying to decoy him from the ship?
They's been a good deal o' talk about wreckers on this coast; an' they's more lies than truth in it.
In Which the "Spot Cash" is Picked up by Blow-Me-Down Rock In Jolly Harbour, Wreckers Threaten Extinction and the Honour of the Firm Passes into the Keeping of Billy Topsail 266 XXXII.
But if we can keep thewreckers off, by trick or by force, we'll not lose her.
It was before Billy Topsail, a lad of wits, had held a candle over the powder barrel, when the wreckers boarded the Spot Cash.
As his weariness increased, he began to think that the wreckers had drawn off, discouraged.
It was up t' Billy Topsail t' save the firm from wreckers an' I'll lay you that Billy Topsail has saved the firm.
Well, in due course the wreckers came up to lift the tug-boat, and Atkinson (who cannot swim either) directed the job.
In olden times such tidings must have traveled from mouth to mouth, and the wreckers of those days flashed their calls and warnings with beacon-fires.
All going to show the kind of stuff American wreckers are made of.
The old wreckers made ten times the money, with an infinitesimal proportion of the trouble.
A scarce and curious tract, published in 1796, exists in the library of the British Museum, and a few extracts from it will show the arguments by which the wreckers of the last century salved their consciences.
The real race of wreckers has died out--that is to say, the cold-blooded wretches who would lure a ship ashore, and then murder the crew by way of precaution before proceeding to plunder the cargo.
She also allowed the storm to cease, but this was because the gang of wreckers had to haul up the ship and gather in their plunder.
If they join the Roseberries, they'll have to be, for the Roseberries are wreckers and smugglers.
This is so managed that captain andwreckers shall make a comfortable little speculation of the affair and nobody lose anything except the all unsuspicious insurance company or the innocent owners of the vessel.
The wreckers cut it short one morning by ripping off the roof over his head before he was up.
Nor, indeed, could the wreckers themselves have given a good reason for undergoing such an amount of ludicrous labor.
This was conclusive; and the wreckers continued their toil, extracting stone after stone out of the hold of the submerged ship.
Had this vessel, on which the wreckers were engaged, been freighted with money, and had the boxes been buried as soon as brought ashore?
On the day after parting from the wreckers a walled town was reached, and near it, on the sides of some of the hills, were seen growing a few patches of barley.
The old sheik and his followers then betook themselves to their camels; and the kafila was hurried up the dry bed of the river,--leaving the wreckers to continue their toilsome and unprofitable task.
No wonder: the wreckers were employed in clearing the ballast out of a sunken ship!
In striking contrast with the heartless wreckers are those known on the British coast as “hovellers.
She had evidently gone on the reef, having gotten out of her course in the wild storm, or else because the wreckers further down the coast had deceived her navigator by means of false beacons.
From one man Frazer learned that his surmise concerning the appearance of the lawless wreckers on the shore was well founded, and that they had been up to some mischief further south, where signs of lights had been noticed by this coastguard.
Jim Dilks and his wreckers must be over here looking for pickings.
He would have been satisfied to hear that a dozen poor sailors had been lost if it meant a big haul for the wreckers of the coast.
One started to follow, but the chief of the wreckers waved him back.
It's them hell-fired wreckers again," was the gritting reply.
Tell them the whole story, if you want to: how we're trying our best to make a spoon out of a spoiled horn, and how there is an army of grafters and wreckers in this State which is doing its worst to knock us out of the box.
One time a picture was being taken of a band of train wreckers who were supposed to tie the switchman to the track.
Probably the most picturesque use of the cutting device is by wreckers of steel structures.
In course of time, St. Mena's Island became the haunt of wreckers and smugglers.
Not long ago the shattered skeletons of four fine ocean steamers might have been seen upon its fatal shores, but with Gamache the reign of the wreckers ended, never to return.
Where wrecks are plentiful, and the controlling hand of the law is absent, wreckers are sure to be plentiful also.
Finally, and mainly at Mona's own instigation, a plan was concocted by which not only the wrecking would be prevented, but the would-be wreckers were to be captured.
Then the eight police were to pounce down on the wreckers lying in wait under the castle's western walls.
Hope long deferred did not make the hot temper of the wreckers any more amiable, and Eric, worried as he was with his own troubles, found life harder than ever.
Like all men of their class, the wreckerswere intensely superstitious, and the wily villain Evil-Eye, though indirectly, shrewdly seized upon the delay of the schooner to strike at Eric.
When they arrived at the hut they found the whole party of wreckers there, waiting somewhat impatiently for a huge negro to serve them their supper.
The majority of the wreckers showed entire indifference toward him.
Many an evening when he seemed deep in his books he was, in reality, with strained ears and throbbing pulses, listening to thewreckers discussing their plans for the future.
Here and there, upon the sand-bars, the hulls of vessels in various stages of destruction told plainly how common was the fate which had befallen the Francis, and how rich a field the wreckers had chosen for their dreadful business.
The wreckers had captured a score of the ponies, and broken them in after a fashion.
A week of almost incessant stormy weather had compelled the wreckers to spend most of their time in the hut.
But the wreckers were too much occupied with their own affairs to pay any attention to him.
He says "The wreckers were mostly Tinners, who as soon as a ship was seen sailing near the coast left their work and equipped themselves with axes, and followed the ship along the coast, often to the number of two thousand men.
To my father's house, instead of ashore among thosewreckers and hotel-people.
If their own boats don't take 'em all ashore, the coast-wreckers will.
The wreckers have left enough gear behind to furnish each man with a life-line, and since there's no longer any danger the lighter will strike the steamer, it won't be a hard job to bring every fellow ashore.
White foam around the wreck told that the rising tide was churning against her sides; but with no more force than while the wreckers had been at work.
If the wreckers are willing to leave their hulks on such a shore as this, without so much as a single man aboard, it would serve them right to lose the whole boiling.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wreckers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
