"But that wreck is not a raft.

The wreck was a dull red glow, the stars above it cleared now of smoke.

The melancholy wrecks that have of late occurred in Bass Strait will, it is to be hoped, direct immediate attention to the construction of these lighthouses, and I think that the collateral benefits to be derived from the dispersion of the convicts ought to be given their due weight.

Such a wreck as that which then went ashore on the Hen-and-Chicken Shoals was a godsend to the poor and needy settlers in the wilderness where so few good things ever came.

A helmless wreck upon the tide An earthquake's ruin wrapped in gloom A gnarled oak blasted in its pride Are feeble emblems of my doom.

Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruinhis control Stops with the shore;upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deeds, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown.

When a man of an essentially serious nature has found the one woman of all the world who fulfils his highest ideals of womanhood, who is, in fact, a woman in ten thousand, to whom he has given all that he has to give of love and worship, the sudden wreck of all his hopes is no small calamity.

The wreck of the steamship Titanic, of the White Star Line, the newest and biggest and presumably the safest ship in the world, is the greatest marine disaster known in the history of ocean traffic.

The wreck was a Charleston ship that had started a butt.

The wreck of the Wild Wave; being the true account of the wreck of the clipper ship Wild Wave of Boston.

Trying, but not succeeding very well; for the wreck had been a Bremen bark, with an assorted cargo and some fifty passengers, all emigrants.

In sight of that intact brewery and that wreck of a church is a gentle slope of open field, cut by a road.

It was inevitable that I should get into conversation with her, and discover that this wreck had been, for years, her home, that she had lived there all alone, and that everything she had in the worldher furniture, her clothing, and her savingshad been burned in the house.

The boys had succeeded in removing the man from the wreckageone glance about them told the girls that the wreck had once been an aeroplaneand the man, who was elderly, lay quite still, looking up at them with sick eyes.

The boys had succeeded in removing the man from the wreckageone glance about them told the girls that the wreck had once been an aeroplaneand the man, who was elderly, lay quite still, looking up at them with sick eyes.

"Wrecking" has long been deservedly a national reproach.

The wrecking of the "Pilgrim" had not been the end of their cruel trials, and others, still more terrible, threatened them should they fall into the hands of these natives.