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    1. And, the high spot of the tour, our stop at Navagio (the Shipwreck): Without the slightest compunction, I left behind the two undecided grumblers who happen to be my companions in this trip and dived into the clear blue water from the deck of the boat


    2. I walked on the white sand, I admired the high blond cliffs surrounding the beach, I passed by the old shipwreck which has been rusting under the sun for decades now


    3. The title was a bit long, true; The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner; Who lived Eight and Twenty years, all alone in an Uninhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque, having been Cast on Shore by shipwreck, wherein all men perished but Himself


    4. He’ll narrowly avoid shipwreck, but Polyphemus will call out for succor to Poseidon, father of the Titan race


    5. “He was in a shipwreck


    6. this place an isle that Odysseus reached after a shipwreck


    7. Nerissa could well remember this terrible sensation from the shipwreck


    8. What you would not be surprised to discover after having come upon a shipwreck, whether the detritus be flotsam or jetsam


    9. river as wrecks, at a location known as Shipwreck City


    10. Of the entire crew, she alone had survived shipwreck and knew the ocean intimately

    11. Her two grandfathers were the only survivors of a shipwreck somewhere near Capawake


    12. They tour the “Antilla” shipwreck and the


    13. My wife’s two grandfathers were survivors of such a shipwreck


    14. found the last shipwreck that turned up several gold doubloons


    15. Increasingly frequent shipwreck incidents led to the building of Split Rock Lighthouse (1910) on a 124-foot-high rock outcrop


    16. having escaped shipwreck, and would have him say whether he did not now


    17. Being a woman, they considered me as bearer of bad omens and, possibly, as a cause of a likely shipwreck


    18. “Not much past the shipwreck,” I said in a low voice


    19. Mallei had been alive after the shipwreck? But, I’d searched for her body and found none but Gordy’s


    20. The old inhabitants of Macondo found themselves surrounded by newcomers and working hard to cling to their precarious resources of times gone by, but comforted in any case by the sense that they had survived a shipwreck

    21. They had never been alone together nor had they spoken except in way of greeting, the night when she dreamed that he was saving her from a shipwreck and she did not feel gratitude but rage


    22. survivor of the sea disaster, Simpson is an authority on this shipwreck and


    23. You posses only that which will not be lost in death; all else is illusion – even the possessor, because that too will not be able to stand the final shipwreck


    24. historic scientific archeological discovery was made when the Antikythera Mechanism was found in the remains of a shipwreck near the island of Antikythera


    25. Here is a tall, strong girl that arrived here from the sea following a shipwreck


    26. For example, one such overwhelming event would be a storm facing travellers at sea, which would alarm them and put them in fear of shipwreck and drowning


    27. no connection to his previous experience, it had nothing to do with his life in Portugal, his studies, the ship, the hurricane, the shipwreck and the rescue! He remembered perfectly that he couldn’t remember any of that, for years


    28. This is what Ulysses had expressed as his most sincere wish for Nausicaa, when he is begging her to help him after his terrible shipwreck


    29. The man is always taking, the woman always giving; and giving so wonderfully, in the face sometimes of dreadful disaster, of shipwreck, of death—which explains perhaps her longer persistence in clinging to the skirts of a worn-out passion; for is not the tenderer feeling on the side of the one who gave and blessed? Always, always on that side? Mixing into what was sensual some of the dear divineness of the mother-love? I think I could never grow wholly indifferent to a person to whom I had given much


    30. Instead of restraining you, guiding you, shielding you from yourself, I was most vile, and fired you with desires for freedom that under the peculiar circumstances were wicked, set a ball rolling that I might have foreseen could never afterwards be stopped, put thoughts into your head that never without me would have entered it, embarked you on an enterprise in which the happiness of your whole life was doomed to shipwreck

    31. The reports published by the various swimming- bath establishments throughout Great Britain are filled with instances of lives saved because those who fortunately escaped shipwreck had been taught to swim in the baths; and not a few instances are given in which the pupils of certain bathing establishments have saved the lives of others


    32. shipwreck, and as she was the only adult mortal on the island, she could


    33. No one will lose an immortal soul in a shipwreck


    34. You mean that they would shipwreck?


    35. What a scene! We stood dumbstruck, hearts pounding, before this shipwreck caught in the act, as if it had been photographed in its final moments, so to speak! And already I could see enormous sharks moving in, eyes ablaze, drawn by the lure of human flesh!


    36. news—which seemed a bit dubious anyhow—and headed toward the Admiralty Islands, which had been named in a report by one Captain Hunter as the site of the Count de La Pérouse's shipwreck


    37. He tried to reach Vanikoro, where, according to the native boatman, a good deal of rubble from the shipwreck could still be found, but winds and currents prevented his doing so


    38. There Dillon collected many relics of the shipwreck: iron utensils, anchors, eyelets from pulleys, swivel guns, an eighteen–pound shell, the remains of some astronomical instruments, a piece of sternrail, and a bronze bell bearing the inscription "Made by Bazin," the foundry mark at Brest Arsenal around 1785


    39. Jacquinot, to the site of the shipwreck


    40. "Here's what I found at the very site of that final shipwreck!"

    41. One of these boats made a dreadful first impression: sides torn open, funnel bent, paddle wheels stripped to the mountings, rudder separated from the sternpost and still hanging from an iron chain, the board on its stern eaten away by marine salts! How many lives were dashed in this shipwreck! How many victims were swept under the waves! Had some sailor on board lived to tell the story of this dreadful disaster, or do the waves still keep this casualty a secret? It occurred to me, lord knows why, that this boat buried under the sea might have been the Atlas, lost with all hands some twenty years ago and never heard from again! Oh, what a gruesome tale these Mediterranean depths could tell, this huge boneyard where so much wealth has been lost, where so many victims have met their deaths!


    42. There have been cases of shipwreck and somnambulism in my client's family


    43. Well, my dear father, in the shipwreck of life—for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes—I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my own will, disposed to live perfectly alone, and consequently perfectly free


    44. I left the bar in a fog, not drunk exactly, not on alcohol at least, my emotions swirling, my thoughts consumed by the murders, by Uncle Lang, by my shipwreck of a life, and somehow instead of driving home I found myself at the cemetery on Main Street


    45. He was as delighted with her exploits as if he were hearing of someone who had been brave during a shipwreck


    46. With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly


    47. After a second’s hesitation, Lily took it, and they gripped each other’s fingers tightly across the white linen, like survivors of a shipwreck, while the waiter stood holding his tray, unsure when he could safely move forward again


    48. She thought of Tara and remembered Jonas Wilkerson, venomous as a rattler, at the foot of the front steps, and she grasped at the last straw floating above the shipwreck of her life


    49. In fact, it wasn’t until the Sunday after Thanksgiving, six days after he’d finally broken things off with Samantha, that the shipwreck or -burning or whatever it was really got under way


    50. He continually deferred the final steps; in the midst of his fears, like many a man who is in danger of shipwreck or of being dashed from his carriage by runaway horses, he had a clinging impression that something would happen to hinder the worst, and that to spoil his life by a late transplantation might be over-hasty—especially since it was difficult to account satisfactorily to his wife for the project of their indefinite exile from the only place where she would like to live






















    1. Dressed in my soiled and tatty towel and shirt, I guessed that I must look like a comic book version of a shipwrecked mariner


    2. This statement is made by Paul, who suffered lashes at the hands of the Jews 5 times, 3 times he was beaten with rods, once pelted with stones, shipwrecked 3 times, spent a day and a night in the open sea, had been constantly on the move, had been in danger from rivers, in danger from bandits, in danger from his fellow Jews, in danger from Gentiles, in danger in the city, in danger in the country, in danger in the sea, in danger from false believers, had gone without sleep, had known hunger and thirst – often going without food, and has been cold and naked


    3. lighthouse to a shipwrecked sailor, and felt that they’d


    4. The cannon shots sounded as though they had come from the neighborhood where The Sea Serpent had been shipwrecked, and I headed in that direction


    5. I remember a case in the 19th century where a woman was rescued by a sailor after being shipwrecked


    6. I remembered reading in the Bible how Paul said he had learned the secret of being content whatever his circumstances, whether he had plenty or was in need, whether hungry or well fed, or even if shipwrecked


    7. Safe haven for the shipwrecked and supplies for


    8. To top off everything, they had been hit by a storm during their return and almost shipwrecked


    9. “No, two of her grandparents were shipwrecked off the northeast coast of the Blue Sky


    10. Once in a while a few of them are shipwrecked

    11. On this occasion the reporter wrote with zeal that the very same man was a delegate at the forthcoming conference and posed the question „Rowlandson shipwrecked on a remote island, a new beginning or the inevitable end’


    12. As an arbor that the life of a shipwrecked saves,


    13. routes in the case that some of us shipwrecked or were killed by


    14. shipwrecked at the river


    15. ‘I mean, where do we come from? How long have we been here? What’s beyond all those huge plants over there? Is it true that we’re shipwrecked aliens on an inhospitable planet, doing very well despite the odds?’


    16. However, it is true that we are shipwrecked aliens from a greater planet, but unfortunately all the old records have been destroyed or are in an unrecoverable form


    17. It is a defense against the duldrums of this family’s shipwrecked life


    18. When José Arcadio came back from the bathroom, he found them sleeping in a naked heap in the shipwrecked bedroom


    19. I am looking for them, in case they were shipwrecked along this coast


    20. “I am looking for three friends of mine that may have been shipwrecked along this coast

    21. “You sold into slavery a shipwrecked boy who had just lost his parents? Where were these slavers headed to and how long ago did they leave with the boy?”


    22. He later made a voyage to Africa in order to get some slaves, only to get shipwrecked off of the coast of


    23. Loka a young Toltec Indian destined to be High Chief of the Toltec Nation is sent on his manhood trials during which he finds a shipwrecked European, the Toltec tribe are being bled to death by the city state they are in thrall to, Loka and his white friend unite his people and challenge the mighty city state


    24. That’s the same type that I used last year to rescue those shipwrecked survivors off the California coast


    25. Fernand and the two black workers immediately started pulling on the rope with all their strength, towing Pierre and the shipwrecked girl towards the beach


    26. ‘’She was shipwrecked off the coast and I saved her on the Grandes Salines beach, Marthe


    27. She was the needed shore to shipwrecked soul,


    28. In the stormy sea of my shipwrecked soul she was my sandy shore,


    29. Now, to the ever-increasing sound of the gunfire was added the anguished cries of shipwrecked German sailors, pleading in vain for help and rescue


    30. flatlands shipwrecked havoc showery fall these bits and pieces on our governed

    31. Two books that were of particular use were entitled 'Cannibalizing Your Crew After Sinking in an Alien Ocean' by Horaticus Neil Travensenzel, and 'How to Have a Long Life, Volume 219: Maximizing Your Use of Airlocks While Shipwrecked at the Bottom of an Alien Ocean


    32. Lives move on, welcomes wear down and out into the stream, they flow into another life, a shore, a tending to the shipwrecked survivors there and another moving on into Vermont, my daughter's heart – twisted around a wound pierced by a parting she remembers as abandonment, a pain starving her from the love she craves


    33. Nothing exists as it did at the time when you were shipwrecked


    34. The fifth encounter happens when Ulysses is shipwrecked on Calypso’s island and the beautiful nymph keeps him prisoner in her bed for seven long years


    35. This happens when Ulysses must pass alongside the vortex of Charybdis after he has been shipwrecked and lost his ship and all his companions, due to a storm that Zeus struck up while they were off the coast of the island of Thrinacia


    36. I would never have dreamt in a million years that I’d be torn away from my parents and be shipwrecked


    37. There I was, shipwrecked in God-knows-where, in a world teeming with dinosaurs


    38. She knew nothing any more except that he and she, shipwrecked, had saved each other, and that for the moment nothing was required of her, no exertion, nothing at all, except to sit passive with her head on his breast, while he called her his baby and softly, wonderfully, kissed her closed eyes


    39. One in four people were shipwrecked, with the water washing away not only their equipment but their hopes as well


    40. disappointed and shipwrecked, ill and exhausted– his glory had been lost forever

    41. If shipwrecked, there is no hope of survival because the entire coast in uninhabitable desert


    42. Sir Thomas Gates, Virginia's deputy governor, bound for the colony, was shipwrecked in Bermuda and did not assume his new post until 1610


    43. and I willingly satisfied their curiosity, telling them how I had been shipwrecked,


    44. such a plight, I replied that I had been shipwrecked two days before, but had


    45. Edmond replaced on the table the bread he was about to devour, and returned to his often heard that shipwrecked persons had died through having eagerly devoured too much couch—he did not wish to die


    46. " Danglars felt as much overcome with joy as the miser who finds a lost treasure, or as the shipwrecked mariner who feels himself on solid ground instead of in the abyss which he expected would swallow him up


    47. Prendergast threw us over a chart, told us that we were shipwrecked mariners whose ship had foundered in Lat


    48. They were as isolated from the world of fashion as shipwrecked mariners, France might be shaving their heads and wearing coonskin caps, so Rhett’s memory for furbelows was an excellent substitute for Godey’s Lady’s Book


    49. I clung to it like a guy who’s shipwrecked and doesn’t trust he can swim


    50. Moncharmin and Richard were the shipwrecked mariners amid this motionless turmoil of a calico sea
















    1. As our rower led us through the stunningly enchanting halls of the cave, such as the Crossroads of Nymphs, the Lake of Exotic Ocean Creatures, the Sea of Shipwrecks complete with a sunken wreck, the Pink Chamber, the White Chamber and the wonderful Red Chamber, the rare beauty of the place took our breath away


    2. Many have passed the rocks of gross sins… who have suffered shipwrecks upon the sands of self-righteousness


    3. The King dove among the charred shipwrecks in search of a fish


    4. She's written numerous books about shipwrecks, mariners, ghosts and even sea-monsters


    5. Shipwrecks are however frequent along these coasts


    6. It was not often that any women were salvaged from the shipwrecks, and the ones that were had tended to have been so mistreated by the sailors that they were only too happy to join the Cause


    7. He remembered that many shipwrecks had occurred off the North Carolina coast over the years


    8. The Transkein coast is littered with shipwrecks


    9. and enchanted histories abound and the coast is littered with shipwrecks


    10. Under such conditions, shipwrecks had to be numerous

    11. Defoe wrote True Histories of Famous Criminals and Notorious Shipwrecks; whilst the French Romancers sent us Year after Year the passionate Productions of their Pens (which were as oft’ denounced by our noble English Criticks as they were gobbl’d up by our hungry English Readers)


    12. Had resolved to be less scornful of her concerns: Indian kidnappings, savage rituals, shipwrecks, famine, disease


    13. More than once, a society has been seen to give way before the wind which is let loose upon mankind; history is full of the shipwrecks of nations and empires; manners, customs, laws, religions,—and some fine day that unknown force, the hurricane, passes by and bears them all away


    14. Marius, fasting, fevered, having emerged in succession from all hope, and having been stranded in grief, the most sombre of shipwrecks, and saturated with violent emotions and conscious that the end was near, had plunged deeper and deeper into that visionary stupor which always precedes the fatal hour voluntarily accepted


    15. They contain round archipelagoes of romantic isles, even as the Polynesian waters do; in large part, are shored by two great contrasting nations, as the Atlantic is; they furnish long maritime approaches to our numerous territorial colonies from the East, dotted all round their banks; here and there are frowned upon by batteries, and by the goat-like craggy guns of lofty Mackinaw; they have heard the fleet thunderings of naval victories; at intervals, they yield their beaches to wild barbarians, whose red painted faces flash from out their peltry wigwams; for leagues and leagues are flanked by ancient and unentered forests, where the gaunt pines stand like serried lines of kings in Gothic genealogies; those same woods harboring wild Afric beasts of prey, and silken creatures whose exported furs give robes to Tartar Emperors; they mirror the paved capitals of Buffalo and Cleveland, as well as Winnebago villages; they float alike the full-rigged merchant ship, the armed cruiser of the State, the steamer, and the beech canoe; they are swept by Borean and dismasting blasts as direful as any that lash the salted wave; they know what shipwrecks are, for out of sight of land, however inland, they have drowned full many a midnight ship with all its shrieking crew


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