Perhaps that was a more cheerful time for observers and theorizers than the present; we are apt to think it the finest era of the world when America was beginning to be discovered, when a bold sailor, even if he were wrecked, might alight on a new kingdom; and about 1829 the dark territories of Pathology were a fine America for a spirited young adventurer.
Strangers, whether wrecked and clinging to a raft, or duly escorted and accompanied by portmanteaus, have always had a circumstantial fascination for the virgin mind, against which native merit has urged itself in vain.
That was the occasion, you will remember, when the three children saved the train from being wrecked by waving six little red-flannel-petticoat flags.
Matthew was covered with confusion at finding her there at all; and those bangles completely wrecked his wits at one fell swoop.
A German motorcycle had been wrecked in that place.
"Later that night, the police found the injured kidnappers in their wrecked car fifty miles from our home.
"Later that night, the police found the injured kidnappers in their wrecked car fifty miles from our home.
Tempest roams in the pathless sky, ships are wrecked in the trackless water, death is abroad and children play.
go nuts My sister will go nuts when she finds out I've wrecked her car.
Wrecked ships may slip beneath the surface and be hidden from the eyes of the world; but, for divers, they are living monuments waiting to be explored.
" In the next day's video, she looks wrecked.
The spectacular crash on Saturday wrote a green Lamborghini off and wrecked a red Ferrari.
It reminded her of her great passion for him when she was young, but also the nearness that she came to making a great mistake that would've wrecked everything.
Most start-ups go broke because of over-optimism; established companies are wrecked by complacency and hubris.
Prices in Britain fell steadily after 1920 until President Franklin Roosevelt finally wrecked the gold standard at the London Conference on exchange rate stabilisation in 1933.
She was at the fishing up of the wrecked plate ships.
Civil wars wrecked health systems in Sierra Leone and Liberia in the 90s and 2000s.
" Later that night, the police found the injured kidnappers in their wrecked car fifty miles from our home.
Tempest roams in the pathless sky, Ships are wrecked in the trackless water, Death is abroad and children play.
He viewed with swift horror the pit into which he had tumbled, the degraded days, unworthy desires, dead hopes, wrecked faculties and base motives that made up his existence.