Sentences with phrase «shipwrecked sailors»

The first is a Chinese legend about the goddess Mazu (1)(played by Maggie Cheung) who has a special power to guide shipwrecked sailors safely to shore.

In the animation Sea of Love, a number of shipwrecked sailors drift in orange rescue tubes in a rebellious sea.

Built along the clifftops in the 19th century to help the police control smuggling and to give shipwrecked sailors an easier route home, the path offers some of the finest views in the region.

The village of Hartenbos started life as a farm granted to Esaias Meyer, a local farmer, as a reward by the Dutch East India Company after he helped shipwrecked sailors.

Port Renfrew attracts many hikers seeking out the infamous West Coast Trail built in 1907 as a lifeline for shipwrecked sailors.

«Vainly I clung to these last beliefs as a shipwrecked sailor clings to the fragments of his vessel; vainly, frightened at the unknown void in which I was about to float, I turned with them towards my childhood, my family, my country, all that was dear and sacred to me: the inflexible current of my thought was too strong, — parents, family, memory, beliefs, it forced me to let go of everything.

No one has ever lived on the island, though many a shipwrecked sailor has awaited rescue there.

I ran out, in search of Rodney Graham's shipwrecked sailor, stranded on a tropical island with a parrot, who repeatedly gets concussed by a falling coconut in Graham's 1997 film loop Vexation Island.

Not exact matches

He too is wet from shipwreck, a servant «sailor soaked to his mortal skin, but sanctified.

In the event of a shipwreck, a sailor's best friend is a floating barrel.

But Dali was also a spectacular fabulist, and that was the only excuse Anderson needed to concoct a scenario that involved the following survivors of a shipwreck: a «sailor babe» (his words), a thuggy pirate, an ethnic pilgrim, an individual «in search of Namaste,» and a schoolboy.

Bring a bottle of champagne, something to nosh on and arm yourself with some interesting local history, such as a shipwreck, doomed love affair among sailors or anything cool that's washed up on the shore.

Nevertheless Klam does drop clues, including this crisp sentence: «This place had been known at one time or another for whale hunting, Portuguese immigrants, sand dunes, herring shoals, shipwrecks off the point, but also for a certain kind of seeker or desperate kook, Puritans, dropouts, communists, frazzled intellectuals, painters from New York, experimental - theater types, alcoholic fishermen, sailors stationed here between the wars, stubborn or demented individuals...

Rise of the Chesapeake Chesapeakes can be traced back to a pair of Newfoundlands, «Sailor» (male) and «Canton» (female), rescued from a shipwreck off the Maryland coast in 1807.

The first recorded European settlement was established in 1638 by shipwrecked British sailors.

For centuries sailors who sailed around Arbroath, Eastern Scotland were terrified of becoming shipwrecked on what was known as «Bell Rock».

The earliest recorded European settlers to Belize were shipwrecked British sailors, otherwise known as the «Baymen,» who first arrived in 1638.

Shipwrecked British sailors founded the city, and colonial - era buildings still line the streets.

A doomed sailor is shipwrecked on an uncharted island.

The plot is based on the story of William Adams, a British sailor who was shipwrecked in Japan in 1600 and eventually became the first ever western samurai.

There's a kitschy Lucifer with eyes - for - pecs, by the Australian painter and covenist Rosaleen Norton; Kiki Smith's Sirens, little human - headed birds of bronze that recall the mythical Greek bird - women who lured sailors to shipwreck with their songs; BREYER P - ORRIDGE's x-ray-like image of two arms with eyes in the palms of their hands, signifying the Hamsa, defenses against the evil eye.

Sea monsters, sirens, sperm whales, giant squids, octopi, submarines, drowned sailors and shipwrecks are all portrayed here by many of art history's «greats» JMW Turner, Odilon Redon, Hokusai, Barbara Hepworth and Oskar Kokoshka among them.

In Greek mythology, Sirens were dangerous creatures, who lured sailors with their enchanting songs to shipwreck on the rocky coast of their island.

What hooked me was stumbling on my husband's old criminal law texts and reading about the cases of sailors who survived shipwrecks and then

They could lure nearby sailors with the sound of their enchanting voice to shipwreck.