Significados de escape shipwreck em inglês

If a man be wealthy above measure, let him fling over-board a part, and so escape shipwreck of his house.

I seek not to conquer for fear I should be overcome; happiness enough for me to escape shipwreck and at last reach port.

He'd battled sharks and land mines, escaped shipwrecks and fought off assassins.

Had the darkness continued an hour longer, he could scarcely have escaped shipwreck.

He was impressed; narrowly escaped shipwreck, deserted, and was arrested and flogged as a deserter.

A few days later they narrowly escaped shipwreck.

He had recently had a close brush with death, narrowly escaping shipwreck in a violent storm.

He escaped shipwreck as by a hair's-breadth, from the sawyer which had attracted the notice of Jack.

Early in 1682 Pepys accompanied the Duke of York to Scotland, and narrowly escaped shipwreck by the way.

He once said to Edouard Schuré: The only time I ever went to sea, I barely escaped shipwreck.

But it is marvellous that he should have escaped shipwreck in the perilous and unknown navigation of that river.

A new danger threatened the schooner; she might founder before we could gain a harbour, even if she escaped shipwreck.

Off the coast of Sicily is a mighty whirlpool, which men call Charybdis, where Aeneas of old narrowly escaped shipwreck.

The Revolution narrowly escaped shipwreck on the financial reefs, and the shaky government of the confederation had there gone to pieces.

The author embarks with the patriarch, narrowly escapes shipwreck near the isle of Socotora; enters the Arabian Gulf, and the Red Sea.

They had escaped shipwreck; conflagration; Indian tomahawks and war-clubs; the fagot and the stake; nay, even the cannibal maws of the South Sea Islanders.