Survivors
[sɚ'vaɪvɚ]
Examples
- Those who love the survivors the least, I believe. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Guns which were heard at Brussels were ploughing up their ranks, and comrades falling, and the resolute survivors closing in. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The Boers were, indeed, in many respects, the last survivors of Aryanism. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It may have been that the survivors hoped to retain thereby some vestige of the strength and virtue that had died. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Our little town of Windsor, in which the survivors from the neighbouring counties were chiefly assembled, wore a melancholy aspect. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Ten survivors out of nearly two hundred people! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- During this disastrous journey we lost all those, not of our own family, to whom we had particularly attached ourselves among the survivors. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The survivors of the wreck were rescued by an American vessel bound for Liverpool. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- These arrangements having been made, the survivors of the fierce fighting returned to the village, in order to take the rest they so much needed. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He can no longer be a fit subject for pity; the survivors are the greatest sufferers, and for them time is the only consolation. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- In each case there was a massacre, the plundering of the city, and the selling of the survivors into slavery. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It looks as if we were the only survivors, remarked Crispin moodily, as they resumed their journey. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
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