The idea of the life-saving service originated with a distinguished citizen of New Jersey, a State whose sandy coast has been the scene of hundreds of fatal shipwrecks.
"American Merchant Ships and Sailors"
Willis J. Abbot
Bro and I were moralising about shipwrecks, in the dining-room, when down came the chimney through the skylight into the entrance passage.
"The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)"
Frederic G. Kenyon
With moderation and prudence, it depended on himself to profit by his astonishing success, and at last to enjoy his life; but ambition and vain desire drive him afresh upon this sea, so fruitful in shipwrecks, and his last venture destroys all his prosperity and all his many labours.
"The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, Volume VI. Being the Historic Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV."
Madame La Marquise De Montespan