It was the Elderly Naval Man, you recallthe two of them being the ship's sole survivors on the deserted island, and both of them lean with hungerit was the Elderly Naval Man (the villain of the piece) who "ups with his heels, and smothers his squeals in the scum of the boiling broth.

Lamb's phrase, descriptive of his father's decline, is taken with a variation from his own poemsfrom the "Lines written on the Day of my Aunt's Funeral" (Blank Verse, 1798): One parent yet is left,a wretched thing, A sad survivor of his buried wife A palsy-smitten, childish, old, old man, A semblance most forlorn of what he was A merry cheerful man.

Their History will confirm the fact: for how many cities are recorded to have been taken; how many armies to have been vanquished in the field, and the wretched survivors, in both instances, to have been doomed to servitude?

There was nothing he could do, and Joe was shouting to him not to lose the hounds, so off he went again, the one solitary survivor of the whole hunt.

This name has been a stumbling block to scholars for years, and opinions vary as to whether it was a wild stallionat all times a savage animalor a lone survivor of the Megaceros, or Irish elk.

The pale survivor.

The fortunate survivors on these occasions who succeeded in obtaining a portion of the coveted fire applied it freely to their faces, their beards, and their garments.

" With five of the exhausted survivors the boat returned to the Longstone; and two of the men went back with William Darling for the other four.

He was bright eyed, slight, and stooped, a survivor of diabetes and severe arthritis.

The hardiest survivor of them is the Wheatstone apparatus, which has been in successful operation for years.

In the southern promontories, among red sandstone hills, still linger survivors of that more genial climegroves of arbutus that speak of Greece or Sicily; ferns, as at Killarney, found elsewhere only in the south, in Portugal, or the Canary Islands.

And many religious and orthodox people carry their assertion of the indissolubility of marriage to the grave; they demand that the widow or widower shall remain unmarried, faithful to the vows made at the altar until death comes to the release of the lonely survivor also.

Many of the congregation were softened even to tears at the recital, and a resolution was formed to bring away the miserable survivors as soon as possible, which they accomplished next day.

Young Marmaduke Nevile was among the few notable survivors.

But these things used to be a part of his daily life; and even to-day you may sometimes hear a dried-up, palsied survivor of the ancient wars cackle out his shrill laugh when he tells as a merry jest, a bloodcurdling story of the torture he inflicted on some enemy in the long ago.

The January of 1822 was marked by the addition to the small circle of Captain E.J. Trelawny, the famous rover and bold free-lance (long sole survivor of the remarkable group), who accompanied Lord Byron to Greece, and has recorded a variety of incidents of the last months of his life.

The retreating Belgian army had blown up that pontoon bridge and with it what then seemed the last hope of escape for the few remaining survivors.

He had indeed the Whig temperament, and it manifested itself down even to the practice of reading aloud in company, which still prevails among the more representative survivors of the Whig tradition.

Reverend survivors from a vanished world, they looked out from the gloom of their abiding-place, but with no shade of menace or of malice in their silent presence; rather with a solemn benison on the fleeting creatures of to-day.

An explosion which occurred in a magazine finished the disaster, and the scared survivors escaped in dismay to Carrickfergus.

But it is just because biography does deal with actual lives, actual facts, because it radiates out to touch continuing interests and sensitive survivors, that it is so unsatisfactory, so untruthful.

Thus confined in a pestilential prison, and almost entirely excluded from the chearful face of day, it remains for the sickly survivors to linger out a miserable existence, till the voyage is finished.

In every district of Ireland, therefore, there remain these tremendous and solemn survivors of a mighty past.

The races who go furthest in their intellectual development will be the ultimate survivors; they will be masters of the earth, destroying all others.

Happily the portion of the wreck which had settled on the rock remained firmly fixed, and afforded a place of refuge to the unfortunate survivors.