Thesaurus / wrack
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Now I say it ain't a-goin' to be more'n two hours befo' this wrack breaks up and washes off down the river.
ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, COMPLETEMARK TWAIN (SAMUEL CLEMENS)And they came forward like the wrack of a surviving army at judgement day.
HUNTERS OUT OF SPACEJOSEPH EVERIDGE KELLEAMSuddenly something seemed to rise and assume form out of the storm-wrack, and this gradually grew into the shape of a vessel.
MY LIFE IN MANY STATES AND IN FOREIGN LANDSGEORGE FRANCIS TRAINThe waters of the sea are poured in thunder wrack upon the hills and run in rivers back into the sea.
THE IRON PUDDLERJAMES J. DAVISThe moon had gone in, and a misty scud-wrack spreading itself overhead was creeping around the dim crags on high.
ALETTABERTRAM MITFORDThe Bladder Wrack, and others of the same kind, are torn up by the fierce waves in a storm, and tossed on the beach in heaps.
ON THE SEASHORER. CADWALLADER SMITHNow wade into rather deeper water, and you find a great mass of the Bladder Wrack.
ON THE SEASHORER. CADWALLADER SMITHThe castle has disappeared from the head of the High Street without leaving a wrack behind.
THE RIVERS OF GREAT BRITAIN: RIVERS OF THE EAST COASTVARIOUSThey were upholstered with "bladder wrack," a most soft cushion, and in each box a white whale lay on these pneumatic cushions.
APPLETONS' POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY, JULY 1899VARIOUSStray little clouds, left behind when the wrack lifted a little, ran bleating up and down the forlorn hill-sides.
LETTERS FROM AMERICARUPERT BROOKEWORDS RELATED TO WRACK
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