"We fought the cowardly devils as long as there was any hope. Two boats are off, and two capsized; in ten minutes more every soul must take to the water. Trust to me, and I will save you or die with you!"英文原著 · 《Beauty and The Beast》
It ran as follows:
"Martha's Vineyard. "MY DEAR MOTHER:--We are greatly distressed by a melancholy accident which befell us scarce an hour since. The Petrel capsized; most of our party are safe; but two of my friends are gone, Hazlehurst and Hubbard! You will understand our grief; mine especially! We shall return immediately. "Your son, H. de V."
The doctor handed this note to Mary, at a moment when Mrs. Van Horne was bending over Elinor.英文原著 · 《Elinor Wyllys-2》
Not a sail, large or small, in sight. Many voices spoke at once. "He has carried on till he has capsized her."
"He has given us the slip."
Unwilling to believe so great a calamity, every eye peered and stared all over the sea. In vain. Not a streak that could be a boat's hull, not a speck that could be a sail. The little cutter was alone upon the ocean. Alone, with scarcely two days' provisions, nine hundred miles from land, and four hundred miles to leeward of the nearest sea-road. Hazel, seeing his worst forebodings realized, sat down in moody, bitter, and boding silence.英文原著 · 《Foul Play》
float if they were capsized. So we stepped into the frail, buoyant英文原著 · 《Little Rivers》
Here broke in the eldest boy, named John, aged ten, a native American, and a sailor already, whom I had twice fished up from a capsized punt. "Mother ain't a Bavarian," quoth the young salt. "Father's a Bavarian; mother's a Portegee. Portegees wear them hoods."英文原著 · 《Oldport Days》
He was lying under the table at supper-time when he took the first fit, and what a fright we got! He must have reared before stiffening out, because he capsized the table into Mother's lap, and everything on it smashed except the tin-plates and the pints. The lamp fell on Dad, too, and the melted fat scalded his arm. Dad dragged Crib out and cut off his tail and ears, but he might as well have taken off his head.英文原著 · 《On Our Selection》