"Run aground" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... from Norway, and on our homeward way, it was a tedious business—what with fogs, calms, and headwinds—working towards Copenhagen. We rounded the Scaw in a thick mist, saw the remains of four ships that had run aground upon it, and were nearly run into ourselves by a clumsy merchantman, whom we had the relief of being able to abuse in our native vernacular, and the most ...
— Letters From High Latitudes • The Marquess of Dufferin (Lord Dufferin) |
