Wrecked

Examples

• Strange shipping became more frequent, passing the Japanese headlands; sometimes ships were wrecked and sailors brought ashore. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Martha Endell--side by side with whom, he would not have seen his dear niece, Ham had told me, for all the treasures wrecked in the sea. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• His coarse, strong nature craved, and could endure, a continual stimulation, that would have utterly wrecked and crazed a finer one. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I was a happy and successful man, Mr. Holmes, and on the eve of being married, when a sudden and dreadful misfortune wrecked all my prospects in life. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• We have seen the Roman Republic wrecked, and here we see the church failing in its world mission very largely through ineffective electoral methods. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It was finished for her too, she was wrecked in the darkness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I saw him for the third time in a wrecked ship, stranded on a wild, sandy shore. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• They wrecked their own slowly acquired political _moral_ in the process. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They wrecked the old system, and at any cost they would not have it back. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The Greeks did not grow a civilization of their own; they wrecked one and put another together upon and out of the ruins. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There is many a true word spoken in jest, my friend; perhaps you will be wrecked before we reach Melnos. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Why in the face of hundreds of philosophies wrecked on the rocks of the unexpected do men continue to believe that the intellect can transcend the vicissitudes of experience? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The work of reconciliation, begun by Gladstone in 1886, and brought so near to completion in 1914, was completely and finally wrecked. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The road ended in a wrecked village. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The sea had gone down after midnight, and only a heavy ground-swell remained to tell of the fury of the storm which had wrecked The Eunice. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Why, I've bin wrecked in the nor'ard, and precious cold it were. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Are you the man who wrecked my life, and stole my dear ones from me? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• They were blown hither and thither for two months, until sick and dying of scurvy, starvation, and thirst, they had been wrecked on a small islet. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Everything worked to a charm, until, in starting up at one end of the road, the friction gearing was brought into action too suddenly and it was wrecked. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The west wind was blowing and many of the broken ships of Xerxes were now drifting away out of his sight to be wrecked on the coast beyond. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• She knew how the hope of my life had been wrecked--she knew why I had left her. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Again difficulty occurred with the launching gear, the rear wings and rudder being wrecked before the aeroplane was clear of the ways. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Had life been wrecked as well as property? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The vessel was wrecked in the Gulf of Mexico--I was among the few saved from the sea. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

Typist: Ludwig