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  • Shipwreck is as the picture shows a crazy looking white guy with a beard.

    G.I. Joe Updates: Brendan Fraser and Dwayne Johnson Cameos? « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • A trio of surfers - two Liberian, one Western - were riding a wave that started to break at a point called Shipwreck, before cresting directly across from the historic cottonwood tree where freed American blacks, including my great-great-great-great-grandfather, had carved their names in 1829 after their ship, the Harriet, arrived on the Liberian shore from Norfolk, Va.

    NYT > Home Page 2010

  • A trio of surfers - two Liberian, one Western - were riding a wave that started to break at a point called Shipwreck, before cresting directly across from the historic cottonwood tree where freed American blacks, including my great-great-great-great-grandfather, had carved their names in 1829 after their ship, the Harriet, arrived on the Liberian shore from Norfolk, Va.

    NYT > Home Page 2010

  • A trio of surfers - two Liberian, one Western - were riding a wave that started to break at a point called Shipwreck, before cresting directly across from the historic cottonwood tree where freed American blacks, including my great-great-great-great-grandfather, had carved their names in 1829 after their ship, the Harriet, arrived on the Liberian shore from Norfolk, Va.

    NYT > Home Page 2010

  • A trio of surfers -- two Liberian, one Western -- were riding a wave that started to break at a point called Shipwreck, before cresting directly across from the historic cottonwood tree where freed American blacks, including my great-great-great-great-grandfather, had carved their names in 1829 after their ship, the Harriet, arrived on the Liberian shore from Norfolk, Va.

    post-gazette.com - News 2010

  • (The Company passes off these white but shopworn dunes as lawns.) "Shipwreck," we say; perhaps this is a housewreck.

    Twelfth Morning; Or What You Will Bishop, Elizabeth 1964

  • One hundred and more young men sat, on that Monday afternoon, listening to his silvery voice as he read extracts from Falconer's "Shipwreck," while the splendid conceptions of the poem, and the opium to boot, taken on the Sunday evening before, were all doing their work on an imaginative young man of nineteen.

    The Opium Habit Horace B. Day

  • "Shipwreck" was always a favorite, because it could develop in so many ways.

    Marjorie's Busy Days Carolyn Wells 1902

  • Boys_, and also "Shipwreck," when everybody on board ship will take their places and carry out orders for getting the women and children safely away, followed by the men of the ship.

    Young Knights of the Empire : Their Code, and Further Scout Yarns Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baden-Powell of Gilwell 1899

  • In what does the infinite superiority of Falconer's "Shipwreck" over all other shipwrecks consist?

    The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III Various 1885

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