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from The Century Dictionary.

  • An old spelling of shipwreck.

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  • If any parte of Musick haue suffred shipwrack, and ariued by fortune at their fingers endes, with shewe of gentilitie they take vp faire houses, receive lusty laffes at a price for boorders, and pipe from morning to euening for wood and coale.

    The More Things Change II Heo 2006

  • β€œIn sum, a defeat, where the conquered kept both field and spoil: a shipwrack without storm or ill footing: and a waste of fire in the midst of the water.”

    The Common Reader, Second Series 2004

  • By and by we heare newes of shipwrack in the same place, then we are too blame if we accept it not for a Rock.

    Defence of Poesie 1992

  • By and by we heare newes of shipwrack in the same place, then we are too blame if we accept it not for a Rock.

    Defence of Poesie 1992

  • The floating Moon would shipwrack there, and sinke? ...

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas MARJORIE HOPE NICOLSON 1968

  • Landlady wants mony; besides there are severall other things that he wants, both of Linnen and Woollen; all which things yield an extraordinary Pleasure, especially, if the mony which is sent, without suffring shipwrack, be imploied and laid out for those necessaries.

    The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh

  • Startle the poor sheep back! is the shipwrack then a harvest, does tempest carry the grain for thee?

    The Wreck of the Deutschland 1918

  • Startle the poor sheep back! is the shipwrack then a harvest; does tempest carry the grain for thee?

    Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published Gerard Manley Hopkins 1866

  • Where he five times suffered shipwrack, was sixteen times sold, and thirteen times made a slave ..

    The Library of William Congreve William Congreve 1699

  • [43] Another shipwrack. waves, our first business was to take out and clear our Arms. This we had scarcely done, but we saw another Canoa run the same misfortune at a little distance to Leeward of us, amongst

    Bucaniers of America: 1685

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