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  • I'm not strong on religion like Chauncey Delarouse there, but I have some primitive ideas; and my concept of hell is an illimitable coconut plantation, stocked with cases of square-face and populated by ship-wrecked mariners.

    THE PRINCESS 2010

  • It was contrary to all their preconceptions of mid - ocean rescue of ship-wrecked mariners from the open boat.

    CHAPTER XVI 2010

  • Simply put I suppose if I was ship-wrecked on a desert island I would probably choose 9 out of 10 sci-fi books to take with me (and no the 10th would not be the bible)!

    What Makes a Fan? | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2008

  • If I ever end up ship-wrecked on a desert island and had to work with a class, I'd take my low level class.

    Magical thinking doyle 2009

  • British import Stephan Hogan is wonderful as the singing fascist Sky Marshall Anoke, who finally finds God…although “the wrong one,” according to ship-wrecked born-again space stewardess Holly Little Marnette Patterson who also turns in a bravura comic performance.

    Buzzine » “Starship Troopers 3: Marauder” 2008

  • (Soundbite of "Watina") Mr. ANDY PALACIO (Singer): (Singing in foreign language) EYRE: The Garifuna are - go back to the literally the 1700s when African slaves escaped from a ship-wrecked and swam to the island of Saint Vincent.

    The Year's Best World Music 2007

  • (Soundbite of "Watina") Mr. ANDY PALACIO (Singer): (Singing in foreign language) EYRE: The Garifuna are - go back to the literally the 1700s when African slaves escaped from a ship-wrecked and swam to the island of Saint Vincent.

    The Year's Best World Music 2007

  • Remembering what prisoners and ship-wrecked mariners have done to exercise their minds in solitude, I repeat the multiplication table, the pence table, and the shilling table: which are all the tables I happen to know.

    Reprinted Pieces 2007

  • He was ship-wrecked in an open boat at sea, and having lost his clothes, had no other covering than an old sail; and yet a creeping hand, tracing outside all the other pockets of the dress he actually wore, for papers, and finding none answer its touch, warned him to rouse himself.

    No Thoroughfare 2007

  • (Soundbite of "Watina") Mr. ANDY PALACIO (Singer): (Singing in foreign language) EYRE: The Garifuna are - go back to the literally the 1700s when African slaves escaped from a ship-wrecked and swam to the island of Saint Vincent.

    The Year's Best World Music 2007

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