If the elephant started on a full run, the palanquin might be wrecked, and what is worse, the huge beast might bump it against a bough, and then Nell's life would be in terrible danger.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
They were so harmonious with her sense of desolation, of failure, of wrecked effort, that for a time it hardly occurred to her that they could mean other than destruction.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
The smoke of a ship had been seen late in the fall, and much wood from a wrecked ship had been found.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook