Example Sentences

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I wonder how many souls it has shipwrecked?

From Four Girls at Chautauqua by Pansy

Thus, it will be seen that man's neglect of his duty to the nature-spirits is the cause which has launched him into a sea of troubles, that has shipwrecked so many generations of his descendants.

From The Best Psychic Stories by Various

Has not the repository of the chief power always been the rock on which republicanism has shipwrecked?

From The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies by Buchan, John