Sentence examples for by shipwreck from inspiring English sources
A gentle breaker carries us in among bathers and surfers and our journey back to civilization - unmarked by shipwreck, drowning or general muscle seizure - is complete.
A smaller, fifth force, led by Hugh of Vermandois, brother of King Philip I of France, left before the others but was reduced by shipwreck while crossing the Adriatic from Bari to Dyrrhachium (now Durrës, Albania).
It was not unusual for the benefactor who originally set them up to insist they be reserved for particular categories of people such as "decayed tradesmen's widows of this parish" or "those ruined by shipwreck or other calamity".
Robinson Crusoe, in full The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who Lived Eight and Twenty Years, All Alone in an Un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, Near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having Been Cast on Shore by Shipwreck, Wherein All the Men Perished but Himself.
Do NOT miss the 15th-century church, which escaped the modernising tendencies of the Victorians and has original "horsebox" pews, as well as any number of memorials including one bearing this inscription: "To the memory and to record the disastrous deaths of Thomas and Sarah Pincombe and their family of six, all of whom perished by shipwreck together with 187 of their fellow passengers.
7. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe Or to give its full title: The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself.
Founded about 1760 by shipwrecked French seamen, it is one of the province's oldest French settlements and was named for the bay, which may have derived its name from a French nautical term, caraque, meaning "carrack," or "large galleon".
The itinerary, we read, would follow the mythic hero Odysseus' convoluted, decade-long journey as he made his way home from the Trojan War, plagued by shipwrecks and monsters.
Besides addressing the worst American maritime loss of the War of 1812, the session will deal with a treasury of information provided by shipwrecks off the coasts of Connecticut, Rhode Island and Nantucket since the Revolutionary War.
However, Oxford rowed a number of record practice times, while Cambridge met with several "disasters" (including catching some "mammoth crabs" and experiencing outings "spoilt by shipwrecks").
"I didn't want to do 'Simon Moore's Dinotopia.' " Mr. Moore brought the story into modern times: the main characters are brothers (Tyron Leitso and Wentworth Miller) who are stranded not by a shipwreck but by a plane crash.
