Here it need only be said that Sweden, during the course of the Great Northern War, had innumerable opportunities of obtaining an honourable and even advantageous peace, but they all foundered on the dogged refusal of Charles to consent to the smallest concession to his despoilers. [Please select]
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Ye strike ower hard, Steenie I doubt ye foundered the chield. [Please select]
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There was the rock on which the government of the Confederation had foundered. [Please select]
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They came together, and Richard heard the old man's breath roaring like a foundered horse's.' [Please select]
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"Si------" began Cæsar, but the protest foundered in his dry throat. [Please select]
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BLACKSTONE, a rock upon which many a legal ship has foundered. [Please select]
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She was undoubtedly caught in the breakers and foundered. [Please select]
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The only real fear he had was that the _Miranda_ might have foundered in the storm. [Please select]
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Bruce's husband should have been the gallant captain of a bark which foundered at sea and sent every man to his grave on the ocean bed. [Please select]
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Ever since the homeward-bound whaler had struck a derelict in a gale of wind north of the Falklands and foundered, this little boat, surviving the shipwreck as by a miracle, had drifted on. [Please select]
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