Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.
When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.
The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without one of their pilots he would run great danger of shipwreck.
Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.
Old age is a shipwreck.
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.