166 collocations for wreck

There was no doubt that although Sir Horace Fewbanks was in his grave, Holymead's hatred of him for his betrayal of his wife burned as strongly as when he had made the discovery that wrecked his home life.

What the mad mine's convulsive strength to thine, That wrecks a world but bids heaven's soaring steeples shine? A god that hath no earthly metaphor, A blinding word that hath no earthly rhyme, Love!

I am not so unwise as to look for gratitude in this world, but I did not think you would repay our kindness and consideration by attempting to wreck the happiness of a quiet and godly home.

He founded a dynasty of able and energetic kings, which, however, degenerated, as dynasties will, until a vain weakling, Ferdinand the Handsome, did his best to wreck the fortunes of the country.

Tradition reports that "The patriarch Photius took the virginal robe of the Mother of God from the Blachern Church, and plunged it beneath the waves of the strait, when the sea immediately boiled up from underneath and wrecked the vessels of the heathen.

The staff believed that Tyler would be cashiered, for he had not only wrecked the general's plan of battle, but he had given the rebels the secret of the movement and demoralized one wing of the army by putting raw soldiers in front of masked batteries that could have been detected by proper outpost work.

It could now be easily seen that Pet Peters had fastened upon quite a cumbersome branch of a fallen tree, and his purpose was manifest when he stepped out as if to drop it across the road, meaning to wreck the machines as they swept on.

So drifting icebergs, setting with a current, wreck the ships.

The Pueblo Indians are to be congratulated on one fact especially, that they permitted their moral improvement through the agency of the black-frocked missionaries and school teachers who came from the East, but also that they are one of the few tribes who resisted the conscienceless rascals who would wreck their homes through "fire water" and gambling devices.

Sometime she had read a tale in which one Howard Melville had gone to the great city and wrecked a career of much promise by accepting a glass of something from the hands of a beautiful but thoughtless girl, pampered child of the banker with whom he had secured a position.

"I 'most wrecked the house," he said with a humorous glance at the door.

They had been sent into the Arctic to locate a wireless station, supposed to be placed in the Aleutian Islands; a station run by radical propagandists, part of a world-federation, which proposed to wreck all organized society.

Firstly, when in full rehearsal, our Mrs. O'Scuttle became unwell, and we had to look for another, and when we had found her and were getting into shape again, her nautical husband put the whole ship on the rocks and wrecked our hopes by losing his voice.

"You can wreck the Golden Horn," I suggested.

The sea and wind seemed combining to wreck the small boats.

"Because he's wrecking the business to get hold of it.

"Poor child of danger, nursling of the storm, Sad are the woes that wreck thy manly form!

He will alone wreck the rebel cause if he is given time.

Even if the moon is bright there's always a risk about landing, because it's a tricky light at the best, and even a little mistake may wreck things.

He had wrecked a railroad and made one, and had operated successful corners in nutmegs and chicory.

"If a chap wants to work, a lot of blackguards come and wreck his furniture.

"I suppose you will act for him as you did for poor young Edward?" Poor young Edward was the deceased minor whose early death had wrecked the finest chances the Windgall family craft had ever carried.

Instead of wrecking the British Empire the German-made war should rebuild it on the soundest of foundations, affection, mutual trust, and common interest.

"I was going to wait a bit longer, but if there's any chance of her wrecking her prospects for life by marrying that tailor's dummy it's my duty to risk itfor her sake.

What the marksmen hoped to do was either to kill the pilot or else to strike some vulnerable part of the engine, thus disabling it and wrecking the plane.

166 collocations for  wreck