An accident that destroys a ship at sea

Usage examples of shipwreck.

In this manner did the crafty Fathom turn to account those ingratiating qualifications he inherited from nature, and maintain, with incredible assiduity and circumspection, an amorous correspondence with two domestic rivals, who watched the conduct of each other with the most indefatigable virulence of envious suspicion, until an accident happened, which had well-nigh overturned the bark of his policy, and induced him to alter the course, that he might not be shipwrecked on the rocks that began to multiply in the prosecution of his present voyage.

Shakespeare, when taken at the full, leads on to fortune, he resolved that the opportunity should not be lost, and applied himself with such assiduity to his practice, that, in all likelihood, he would have carried the palm from all his contemporaries, had he not split upon the same rock which had shipwrecked his hopes before.

On the whole, except for Barnet, the shipwrecked Islanders avoided the three captives.

This same Prince had granted an audience to a poor knight of Caux, one Robert le Mennot, to whom, when he was in danger of shipwreck near the coast of Syria, had been vouchsafed a vision.

He drew now upon that gift of his, represented himself as a mariner from Montoir, and told a harrowing tale of shipwreck.

There is a reflux in the tide of human things which bears the shipwrecked hopes of men into a secure haven after the storms are past.

Mage Guardians and eight of the Rising faithful from Renig Jail were sleeping in the upstairs rooms and the stables of the Shipwrecked Sailor.

What she has done for Franklin and so many others, she will do to-day for these poor shipwrecked fellows of the BRITANNIA.

DUNCAN is going to bring back shipwrecked mariners who were cast away on the shores of Patagonia, and we could not alter such a destination.

American continent to where it dips into the Atlantic, without deviating from it half a degree, and possibly in some part of its course we shall fall in with the shipwrecked party.

The Scotchman was glad of the chance of gleaning some information about his shipwrecked countryman, while the Patagonian hardly cared to encounter the nomadic Indians of the prairie, knowing their bandit propensities.

But Harry Grant and his two sailors, those poor shipwrecked fellows, would not be with them.

It was evident that the degrees given related to the place where the BRITANNIA was actually shipwrecked and not the place of captivity, and that the bottle therefore had been thrown into the sea on the western coast of the continent.

Scotchman like yourself, my Lord, and one of the shipwrecked crew of the BRITANNIA.

All trace of Captain Grant and his shipwrecked men seemed to be irrevocably lost.