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Sentences ending with wreck

He looked a wreck; but a handsome wreck. [11]
He was pale, worn; he was a wreck. [5]
Once in line with the Kismet's counter, he eased off the painter rapidly, and now dropped towards the stern of the wreck. [11]
The Residency house was a wreck. [5]
The water was very cold; he clung to a cotton bale--mainly with his teeth--and floated until nearly exhausted, when he was rescued by some deck hands who were on a piece of the wreck. [5]
The hurricane found us fretful with life by reason of the heat, it left us thankful for being let to live at all; though the Wilderness appeared little better than a drifting wreck. [11]
The widow said to herself: "There--he's asleep, poor wreck. [5]
Galligan claims that there was a defective sill on the car which is said to have caused the wreck. [9]
The ship conveying them was stranded at the mouth of the Elbe and my precious manuscript perished miserably in the wreck. [10]
The disaster of the house of Mavick was not accepted without a struggle, lasting long after the public interest in the spectacle had abated--a struggle to save the ship and then to pick up some debris from the great wreck. [4]

Short sentences using wreck

I am a drifting wreck. [11]
The wreck was complete. [5]

Sentences containing wreck two or more times

It was true she would probably not have married Jean Jacques, if it had not been for the wreck of the Antoine; but the wreck had occurred, and she had married him, and that was done and over so far as she was concerned. [11]
A wreck of several transports had occurred at Belle Isle, and it was thought to send him down the river with a sloop to bring back the crew, and break up the wreck. [11]

More example sentences with the word wreck in them

France was a wreck, a ruin, a desolation. [5]
He surveyed the wreck which that old rioter and those two young farmers had made, and then said "This is a sad business--a very sad business. [5]
See thou the wreck this fiend hath made, and let thy heart be moved with pity! [5]
That Ault would wreck the market, if he could and it was to his advantage, no one doubted; but still he had a quality that begot confidence. [4]
She was the wreck of splendid possibilities. [11]
History is strewn with the wreck of popular delusions, but always in place of them have come realizations more astonishing than the wildest fancies of the dreamers. [4]
On reaching Memphis with the wreck of his army, he found the Egyptians in glorious apparel celebrating a festival. [10]
Oh, don't trifle with a poor wreck like me. [5]
I must take what is left of this wreck and run out of your presence and carry it away to my home and spread it out there and sleep the sleep of the righteous. [5]
So long as we remain alive we are not safe from doing things which, however righteously and honorably intended, can wreck our repute and extinguish our friendships. [5]
After a while we passed another farmyard, with nothing which seemed deserving of remark except the wreck of an old wagon. [6]
What I feared was that the trout would start up the inlet and wreck us in the bushes. [4]
Memory of her was only poignant, in so far as it was associated with the days preceding the wreck of the Antoine. [11]
For awhile there was a partial break, which furnished about such a sunset as will be exhibited when the Last Day comes and the universe tumbles together in wreck and ruin. [5]
As I don't want my wreck to be washed up on one of the beaches in company with devil's-aprons, bladder-weeds, dead horse-shoes, and bleached crab-shells, I turn about and flap my long narrow wings for home. [6]
The lightning showed us the wreck again just in time, and we fetched the stabboard derrick, and made fast there. [5]
The wreck lodged upon a sandbar, and when the Boreas turned the next point on her upward journey it was still burning with scarcely abated fury. [5]
I told how, under these conditions, the sins and vagaries of his parents had gone far to wreck his life at the beginning of it. [9]
At half past two in the morning the dead silence of the village was broken by a crashing explosion, and the town patrol saw the preacher's house spring in a wreck of whirling fragments into the sky. [5]
Do you want to wreck her life? [11]
But they went to wreck and ruin under us and brought us to shame before all the passengers. [5]
Poor wreck of time the wave has cast To find a peaceful shore at last, Once glorying in thy gilded name And freighted deep with hopes of fame, Thy leaf is moistened with a tear, The first for many a long, long year! [6]
The rest had time and space enough to beware of the wreck and to give it a wide berth, among them Marcus. [10]
Looking down on the wreck, Mazarine saw his treasured porcelain shattered. [11]
Then Tarboe brought the Ninety-Nine close to the wreck, and with his little cannon put a ball into her. [11]
Another stranger, by the name of Thompson, left me a mere wreck and ruin of chaotic rags. [5]
She was only the lover of honest things, the friend, the good ally, obliged to flee a cause for its terrible unsoundness, yet trying to prevent wreck and ruin. [11]
The man in the litter had been only the wreck of the Charles whom she loved; even the fiery light in his eyes, though not extinguished, had appeared subdued and veiled. [10]
I can understand the impulse which led the red caps to make a wreck of this grand old historical building. [6]
Next she opened the feather beds, and strewed the contents around, saturated everything with kerosene, and set fire to the general wreck. [5]
The battleship was the Big Financier, who saw that a wreck was now inevitable, and was only concerned that there should be a fair distribution of the assets. [11]
This and the tender, with men and divers, were to go in search of the wreck under the command of Bucklaw and the captain of the Swallow, whose name Phips did not mention. [11]
The fine new temples and palaces of the second act are by-and-by a wreck of crumbled walls and prostrate columns, mouldy, grass-grown, and desolate; but their former selves are still recognisable in their ruins. [5]
She is too sore now in--the wreck of all her hopes. [4]
The fine young soldier was a wreck, broken alike in heart and body and sunk in melancholy. [10]
Weeks dragged by, she watching, waiting, hoping, her mind going slowly to wreck under the burden of her misery. [5]
He was the sad wreck of a strong man. [11]
Mr. Penhallow, Deacon Rumrill, Gifted Hopkins, Esq., and others, came forward immediately, and after much effort succeeded in removing the wreck of the sounding-board, and extricating their unfortunate pastor. [6]
To all who remember Gericault's Wreck of the Medusa,--and those who have seen it do not forget it,--the picture the mind draws is one it shudders at. [6]
I know the proof I've got in me heart that the wreck of the world couldn't shake, while that light, born of Heaven, swims up to your eyes whin you look at me! [11]
Maitre Fille was possessed of a superstition that all the things which threaten a man's life to wreck it, operate awhile in their many fields before they converge like an army in one field to deliver the last attack on their victim. [11]
Yes, the new popular song with the taking melody sings through one's head day and night, asleep and awake, till one is a wreck. [5]
O, what a pitiable wreck of high hopes! [5]
The wreck of one or both is likely to be the consequence. [6]
At length Abelard offered to marry Heloise --but on a shameful condition: that the marriage should be kept secret from the world, to the end that (while her good name remained a wreck, as before,) his priestly reputation might be kept untarnished. [5]
No signs left of the wreck of the 'Pennsylvania. [5]
It was because of the Sellers characteristics in him that he invested in a typesetting-machine which cost him nearly two hundred thousand dollars and helped to wreck his fortunes by and by. [5]
In the wreck of the Mavick estate, in its distribution, there are one or two things of interest to the general reader. [4]
With the wreck of his possessions, he began to trade--in pictures first, and then in curious ancient things. [12]
But on account of his brothers, in this dismal wreck of a family connection, his soul was steeped in bitterness. [4]
In the crevices of Cyclopean walls, --in the dust where men lie, dust also,--on the mounds that bury huge cities, the wreck of Nineveh and the Babel-heap,--still that same sweet prayer and benediction. [6]
As they approached Nun's ruined dwelling, the prophet pointed to the wreck and said: "The former owner of this abode is the only Hebrew I would gladly spare. [10]
There is a noble old wreck of an elm at Hatfield, which used to spread its claws out over a circumference of thirty-five feet or more before they covered the foot of its bole up with earth. [6]
Yet sacrifice he must make, and that instantly, in the hope of saving something from the wreck of his fortune. [5]
Do you know, Mr. Grier, I came out here a wreck eight years ago. [11]
For eighteen long months the storms of war beat upon the helpless town, and left it at last the saddest wreck that ever the sun has looked upon. [5]
Ranulph joined his men at the wreck, and the Reverend Lorenzo Dow went about the Lord's business in the little lean-to of sail-cloth and ship's lumber which had been set up near to the toil of the carpenters. [11]
You see in me the melancholy wreck of a once stalwart and magnificent manhood. [5]
There was a man run down almost to vagabondage, owing to his increasingly shabby clothing, and he was only saved from becoming a moral and physical wreck by a remnant of good-breeding in him that kept his worn boots well polished. [4]
With his servant, Luke Claridge was the first to look upon him lying in the wreck of his last experiment, a spirit-lamp still burning above him, in the grey light of a winter's morning. [11]
And have you loved this wreck of a man with all the fervour of your heart? [10]
Then all her life seemed to fall about her in wreck and ruin. [13]
Suppose they took it into their heads to wreck the place? [11]
Now and again it has a wreck or a dead body to toss and fling about. [4]
The old man interested him: he was a wreck out of an unfamiliar life. [11]
He now goes, in increasing number, to see where the bowlder once hung, and spends his time in hunting for it in the acres of wreck and debris. [4]
Here in Milan, in an ancient tumble-down ruin of a church, is the mournful wreck of the most celebrated painting in the world--"The Last Supper," by Leonardo da Vinci. [5]
I ask him if he can think of our desolate state, of our past sorrows, of our dark future, and still unpityingly foist upon us this wreck, this ruin, this tottering swindle, this gnarled and blighted and sapless vagabond from Oregon's hospitable shores? [5]
The world says I was a thief, and a thief I am until I prove to the world I am innocent--and wreck three lives! [11]
Well, before long here comes the wreck, dim and dusky, sliding along down! [5]
Old D'Aulon begged her to retreat while there was yet a chance for safety, but she refused; so he seized her horse's bridle and bore her along with the wreck and ruin in spite of herself. [5]
The skiff was half full of plunder which that gang had stole there on the wreck. [5]
Her lover was gone, to risk his life, not improbably to lose it, or to come home a wreck, crippled by wounds, or worn out with disease. [6]
The wreck took fire from the dismantled furnaces! [5]
One fearful, supreme fact possessed her, the wreck of Chiltern breaking against the rocks, driven there by her . [9]
It was the embodied wreck of her happiness. [9]
He walked quickly down the shingle towards the wreck on the other side of the islet. [11]
Over on Slow Down Ranch there lived a curious old lady who wore a bonnet of Sweet Sixteen of the time of the Crimea, and with a sense of colour which would wreck the reputation of a kaleidoscope. [11]
When I came down in the morning a gray and aged wreck, and went over the figures again, I found that in some unaccountable way (unaccountable to a business man but not to me) I had multiplied the totals by 2. [5]
Say, my dear, don't wreck it all. [11]
To take a decadent human being, a wreck physically and morally, and try to make a man of him, that is an attempt worthy of a people who claim to be civilized. [4]
From a normal, contented man he had deteriorated into a monomaniac whom no one would hire, a physical and mental wreck who needed care and nursing. [9]
But I said, come on, if we get left on this wreck we are in a fix, sure. [5]
Lorenzo Dow, passed calmly from the gallant little wreck to the deck of the privateer, with a finger between the leaves of his book of meditations. [11]
The second day brought no better luck, nor yet the third the divers had seen no vestige of a wreck, nor any sign of treasure--nothing except four skeletons in a heap, tied together with a chain, where the water was deepest. [11]
So let our broken circle stand A wreck, a remnant, yet the same, While one last, loving, faithful hand Still lives to feed its altar-flame! [6]
There was another bit of property that was not included in the wreck. [4]
Now, you see before you the wreck and ruin of what was once a young person like yourselves. [5]
Heretofore she had been passionless, but there was a dormant power in her which had only to be wickedly aroused to wreck her own and others' happiness. [11]
That talk must be very well in hand, and under great headway, that an anecdote thrown in front of will not pitch off the track and wreck. [4]
The matter to be under discussion is a venture which might save much from the wreck. [10]
Messrs. Botcher and Bascom were, when all was said, mere train despatchers of the Northeastern, who might some day bring on a wreck the like of which the State had never seen. [9]
Among the nations, as you know, a storm raged, and the great swells from that conflict threatened to set adrift and wreck the little republic but newly launched. [9]
He folded his arms, and stood looking at the wreck of Myrtle's future, the work of his cruel hand. [6]
I'll go across and see if I can help Dr. Jonathan take care of that poor wreck, Prag. [9]
He'd call it an adventure--that's what he'd call it; and he'd land on that wreck if it was his last act. [5]
I told Jim all about what happened inside the wreck and at the ferryboat, and I said these kinds of things was adventures; but he said he didn't want no more adventures. [5]
Shut up on a wreck with such a gang as that! [5]

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