Diego de Arana, chief judge of the armament, and Pedro Gutierrez, the king's butler, were immediately sent on shore as envoys to the cacique Guaeanagari, to inform him of the intended visit of the admiral, and of his disastrous shipwreck.

" "Oh, this dreadful shipwreck!

" Shakespeare took this storywhich caused as much popular interest as that later shipwreck which gave us Robinson Crusoeand wove it into The Tempest.

Just here seems to me to be the fatal rock upon which many households make utter shipwreck of their peace.

The convention, not yet in the least realizing that the great Democratic party had suffered fatal shipwreck in the secret committee-room, listened eagerly to the reports and explanatory speeches of the majority and minority of the committee.

A fearful shipwreck.

A sombre flood, reddish brown in certain lights, studded with rocks which raised ghosts of unmoving foam, flowing with a speed which perpetually boiled and eddied, promising nothing to the voyager but thousand-fold shipwreck, a breathless messenger from the mountains to the ocean, it wheeled incessantly from stony portal to stony portal, a brief gleam of power and cruelty.

When he had related what we already know, from his landing to the construction of his raft, and to his frightful shipwreck, he at last commenced, not without some mortification, the recital of his final miseries, which alone could explain the deplorable state in which the English sailors had found him.

This old "ship" of the royal board, an antique work of art which the city of Paris had once presented to a King of France, had also been lost in the grand shipwreck of 1792, and the grand-master of ceremonies had been compelled to have a new one made by the court jeweller for the occasion.

Immediate shipwreck had been avoided, but the corvette was not saved.

By this well-contrived shipwreck, having, as they imagined, raised their fortunes, they came home triumphantly from their prosperous voyage, and claimed the money for which the ship was insured.

" "A kind of Eddystone, to prevent matrimonial shipwrecks," said the brother, gayly.

The frown returned, became almost savage, when the fat physician continued: "To see the phosphor is too much moon, Mrs. Forrester?" Had the steamer crashed upon a reef, he would hardly have noticed such a minor shipwreck.

J.V. Brown, Esq., Editor of the Lake Superior Journal, who was on board the Monticello, gives the following graphic account of the disaster: It becomes our painful duty to record the most perilous shipwreck that has ever occurred on Lake Superior, and having been a passenger on board the Monticello at the time, we are enabled to give all the particulars in relation to the loss of the vessel, and the hardships of the passengers and crew.

The open wagon that was to carry me to the station stood at the door; Mr. Sewell was placing my case of instruments under the seat, and Mr. Jaffrey had gone up to his room to get me a certain newspaper containing an account of a remarkable shipwreck on the Auckland Islands.

The wind sweeps weirdly o'er the heaven to-night, Weirdly and black, as though from guilty deeds, From some sad shipwreck, it has taken flight,

Meanwhile Philenia's honor is preserved by timely shipwreck of the vessel in which the ravishers are carrying her off.

In that shoreless sea of splendor What is one faint wave of light? Worlds by millions are revolving Through that vast, unfathomed main; Should our tiny orb make shipwreck, Worlds by millions would remain; Where perchance a real advancement May prevail from pole to pole, Without losses, without lapses, Toward a final, perfect goal.

Milton is saved from making total shipwreck of his large-utteranced genius on the desolate Noman's Land of a religious epic only by the lucky help of Satan and his colleagues, with whom, as foiled rebels and republicans, he cannot conceal his sympathy.

What is now to be seen," cried he, "but conflagration, slaughter, ruin,the universal shipwreck of society?"

Who would save me from this invisible shipwreck, which I perceived only from time to time?

On this rock of immovable Germanic obstinacy the Russian ship of State, was intended to meet with diplomatic shipwreck.

It was a buoy, a piece of masthead, the drift from a distant shipwreck.

Five different accounts of this fascinating shipwreck were published, and the Bermudas became known as the "Ile of Divels.