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Meanings of escape shipwreck in English
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Usage of escape shipwreck in English
1
If a man be wealthy above measure, let him fling over-board a part, and so escapeshipwreck of his house.
2
I seek not to conquer for fear I should be overcome; happiness enough for me to escapeshipwreck and at last reach port.
3
He'd battled sharks and land mines, escapedshipwrecks and fought off assassins.
4
Had the darkness continued an hour longer, he could scarcely have escapedshipwreck.
5
He was impressed; narrowly escapedshipwreck, deserted, and was arrested and flogged as a deserter.
6
A few days later they narrowly escapedshipwreck.
7
He had recently had a close brush with death, narrowly escapingshipwreck in a violent storm.
8
He escapedshipwreck as by a hair's-breadth, from the sawyer which had attracted the notice of Jack.
9
Early in 1682 Pepys accompanied the Duke of York to Scotland, and narrowly escapedshipwreck by the way.
10
He once said to Edouard Schuré: The only time I ever went to sea, I barely escapedshipwreck.
11
But it is marvellous that he should have escapedshipwreck in the perilous and unknown navigation of that river.
12
A new danger threatened the schooner; she might founder before we could gain a harbour, even if she escapedshipwreck.
13
Off the coast of Sicily is a mighty whirlpool, which men call Charybdis, where Aeneas of old narrowly escapedshipwreck.
14
The Revolution narrowly escapedshipwreck on the financial reefs, and the shaky government of the confederation had there gone to pieces.
15
The author embarks with the patriarch, narrowly escapesshipwreck near the isle of Socotora; enters the Arabian Gulf, and the Red Sea.
16
They had escapedshipwreck; conflagration; Indian tomahawks and war-clubs; the fagot and the stake; nay, even the cannibal maws of the South Sea Islanders.