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“Maybe fate brought you here for a reason,” Blackthorne is told shortly after shipwrecking in Japan.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 26, 2024

And of the risks I ran of utterly shipwrecking my character and good name and from which Thou didst rescue me. 

From Santa Teresa an Appreciation: with some of the best passages of the Saint's Writings by Whyte, Alexander

I’ve had a pretty good hardening already, what with knocking on the head, drowning, shipwrecking, starving, and walking off my legs.”

From Yussuf the Guide The Mountain Bandits; Strange Adventure in Asia Minor by Schonberg, John

He was in danger of shipwrecking on that fatal sunken reef to American character, popularity.

From Se-quo-yah; from Harper's New Monthly, V.41 by Unknown

Instead he continued: “But I ain’t the one to bear a grudge, Duval, although you did come mighty near shipwrecking my faith in human natur’.

From The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune by Goldfrap, John Henry