Recover a wreck

Usage examples of salvage.

Lion had salvaged bolts from the ballista and these he handed to his fellows.

It was even Gibbs who had arranged to have enough atomic waste aboard so that the salvage crews, sent by the Navy to recover what they thought were pieces of the Barracuda, would get the appropriate readouts.

Initially, Brewster figured, wire could be salvaged from the remains of the time machine, but eventually, he could show Mick how to draw it out of copper or gold, heating it and pulling it on a crank.

Wells, frantic, desperate, had heard that Roland Britten, although young, had done other salvage jobs.

There was a chance they might salvage something of the case but not if Polling had a tantrum.

Other cities, indeed, contain more works of carriageable art, but none contain so much of the glorious local art, and of the springs and sources of art, which can by no means be made subjects of package or porterage, nor, I grieve to say, of salvage.

The natural order is only temporarily salvaged when Hal conquers France in deference to his forefathers, thereby acquiring a new world of vegetative and procreative fertility.

The young Snowdons and the young Penworthys loitered and teased to play Mothers and Husbands and House with the real baby-the youngest Penworthy had grown too big to heft and lug and shut in a salvaged Produit de Bordeaux box-until Lily sent them off to the barn to fetch the old badminton set.

Egavine and Quist standing near a rusty bench in the compartment, of Graylock half into a salvage suit, Dasinger on the floor.

Under the current laws ofspace salvage, all of thesefacts constitute sufficient reason to consider and treat the offending vessel not merely as salvable but as an actual and continuing hazard.

The boat-builders tried to salvage their sennit, but it was in such a hopeless snarl that they could only burn it.

If those salvage operations went too far, Trame would have to take a hand.

But the fact that he did, and the fact that Trilby was, as far as she knew, the only sentient being on a world that most of civilized space wanted nothing to do with, gave her the unalienable salvage rights.

They had been put together with salvaged beams and boards mixed with new, uncured planks that disliked their neighbors.

A just sentiment of gratitude would seem to require him--if he has not already done it--to enshrine, with tributary honor, close beside the ashes of the unhappy queen of Holland, those of Madame Salvage, the most unwearied and inalienable of all her friends.