You just know the headlines around the country are going to have the word "shipwrecked" in it. From Wordnik.com. [chicagotribune.com -] Reference
Because of sparse rainfall during the current season, I occasionally got 'shipwrecked' a handful of times but Oliver assures that the ride is even better in the wet summer months. From Wordnik.com. [Jamaica Gleaner Online] Reference
"It is some poor wretch shipwrecked," said William. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
Now you want me to drift in as a shipwrecked sailor. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast] Reference
"I-- I'm to be shipwrecked; am I?" inquired Mr. Piper. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast] Reference
Manby's admirable invention for saving shipwrecked seamen. From Wordnik.com. [Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction] Reference
The shipwrecked persons were made as comfortable as possible. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight; or, on the border for Uncle Sam] Reference
The same year it saved 601 shipwrecked sailors and 33 vessels. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of Bread] Reference
Suppose five Asians and one American were shipwrecked on an island. From Wordnik.com. [China Will Eat Our Lunch] Reference
He was shipwrecked on the way, and this is the account of his adventures. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
There nourishing food and repose completely recovered the shipwrecked youth. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
'Another is said, when about to be shipwrecked, to have called for salt meat. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
He had been shipwrecked on his journey and had been cast ashore many miles away. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Stories for the Story-teller] Reference
A corsair has saved the shipwrecked and sold them as slaves to the Emir of Tunis. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
I have been shipwrecked several times -- once, only a few weeks ago, at Sunderland. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
"I hope we shan't be shipwrecked," retorted Jacquemin; and he then proceeded to draw. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
You know you have never alluded to any event in your life prior to our being shipwrecked. From Wordnik.com. [Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days] Reference
Or is she, as all who fall under her spell are eager to believe, a shipwrecked Oriental princess?. From Wordnik.com. [Meryl (Yes, Meryl) Goes Macho] Reference
No I can't think of anything more heavenly than to have you shipwrecked on a tropical island with me. From Wordnik.com. [Merritt, Snicket and the 'Tragic Treasury'] Reference
"Let's play we're shipwrecked," suggested Freddie, who was always anxious to "pretend" something or other. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat] Reference
Their difficulties commence in New York and become greatly exaggerated when they are shipwrecked in mid-ocean. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Woman] Reference
The next day, the weather cleared up and the shipwrecked kangaroos scoped out the island on which they had landed. From Wordnik.com. [Trouble on Kangaroo Island] Reference
So I lopped off their heads and dropped them in the sea just to have you shipwrecked on a tropical island with me. From Wordnik.com. [Merritt, Snicket and the 'Tragic Treasury'] Reference
I was like a shipwrecked person clutching at a floating match-box; I knew quite well that the Captain would not go away. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"There they come through the last line of surf!" yelled Joe, pointing to the buoy containing the two shipwrecked persons. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast] Reference
There is an infirmary, where thousands have been relieved, and besides all this, there are rooms for shipwrecked sailors. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
About half-a-mile away, there were the shipwrecked sufferers, still clinging to their only hope, the broken pieces of the ship. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
His people are the descendants of West African slaves who were shipwrecked off the Caribbean island of St. Vincent in the 1600s. From Wordnik.com. [Musician Preserves Fading African-Caribbean Culture] Reference
Spiritual blemishes come later, of course, when it's too late, when your two lives have shipwrecked somewhere off the coast of hope. From Wordnik.com. [what you do best] Reference
The little twins were allowed to take some of their lunch, and go off to one side of the island, there to play at being shipwrecked. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat] Reference
Then he thought of the many adventures that had happened on rafts -- of the many shipwrecked passengers that had been saved on them. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
Yes; she knew that she would always be afraid of her own thoughts, if she did not what she could to rescue the shipwrecked strangers. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
Immersing one's self in water is often resorted to by shipwrecked mariners, when they cannot get a drink, and with successful results. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
No shipwrecked mariner ever more greedily devoured with his dazzled eyes the fateful loreley of a rocky, deserted coast than he did her. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
She clambered up the fence and stood there waving her arms and shouting as madly as if she had been a shipwrecked mariner sighting a sail. From Wordnik.com. [The Governess] Reference
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