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founder as in:  a founder of the company

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  • The story goes that Slytherin had built a hidden chamber in the castle, of which the other founders knew nothing.   (source)
    founders = people who created (the school)
  • But language founders in such seas.†   (source)
  • On the walls, where one might have expected to find portraits of the firm's founders, there were portraits of Uga I, Uga II, and Uga III.†   (source)
  • In it, the three men, the founders of the company, were arranged in a pyramid, each of them dressed in their best-known clothes, wearing expressions that spoke, cartoonishly, of their personalities.†   (source)
  • You were part of the bridge between our founders and the current staff.†   (source)
  • As luck would have it, one of the founders of the firm, Monique Rona, had a son at Lakeside, a year ahead of Gates.†   (source)
  • Three of the scheduled anointed speakers did not show, among them church founders Rev. Thomas McNair, my godfather, and Sister Virginia Ingram, both having pleaded illness or scheduling conflicts.†   (source)
  • In her center, as in many of the great classical cities, the founders had erected an enduring tribute to the ancients—the Egyptian obelisk.†   (source)
  • A central philosophical direction in the twentieth century is therefore ecophilosophy or ecosophy, as one of its founders the Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess has called if.†   (source)
  • Zhang Shu was one of the founders of Chinese ballet, along with Chiu Ho and Chen Lueng, and was widely considered one of the most knowledgeable ballet experts in China.†   (source)
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  • Beneath those words, three simple, hand-painted illustrations, sun-bleached but still decipherable, declared exactly what sorts of games the park's founders intended Clarkston's residents to play on the field.†   (source)
  • When the German founders built it, they painted the tin roof red and the wooden walls a brilliant white, so that the building itself bore some resemblance to a riverboat.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist was one of the founders of Millennium, started in 1990.†   (source)
  • She muscled her car through traffic while regaling them with stories about the crazy families of Atlanta—the old plantation owners, the founders of Coca-Cola, the sports stars, and the CNN news people.†   (source)
  • I didn't realize how much Cara had already cleaved to the idea of being an Allegiant, loyal to the faction system, loyal to our founders.†   (source)
  • "We have found out ...that we cannot trust some people who are nonconformists," declared Ray Kroc, one of the founders of McDonald's, angered by some of his franchisees.†   (source)
  • IT WAS SLEETING on a bitter cold evening in the Founders' Library when the final piece came together, and when it did, Thomas slammed his book shut, alarming Mrs. Pincus, the librarian.†   (source)
  • A town of eleven thousand, Garden City began assembling its founders soon after the Civil War.†   (source)
  • The Jesuits, according to Paulus, had been treated so brusquely in so many places for their attempts to convert and transform, decapitated in Japan, disemboweled in the Horn of Africa, eaten alive in North America, crucified in Siam, drawn and quartered in England, thrown into the ocean off Madagascar, that the founders of our little experimental college thought they'd spare the landscape some of the bloodier emblems of the order's history.†   (source)
  • We were better equipped than many founders of dynasties had been when they walked north to dethrone an emperor; they had been peasants like us.†   (source)
  • This is precisely why the founders of the new nation of the United States decided to put an end to religious intolerance by making religious freedom a cornerstone of this country" This was a nonjury trial, which meant that the only person I had to preach to was the judge; but the courtroom was still filled.†   (source)
  • While the other awards are given to a student who exhibits one particular quality, the Founders' Stone is awarded to that rare student who personifies many.†   (source)
  • Kennedy meets these islanders in person the next morning, when his canoe founders on the way back to Naru.†   (source)
  • The resistance founders warned us this time would come, told us where to go to survive, galvanized us while the rest of the world was falling apart.†   (source)
  • I know that it has been a sore point, and I shudder for the consequences if we embitter a man of his influence, one of the principal founders of American freedom.†   (source)
  • Have we forgotten our founders and the basic tenets of their blueprint for the country?†   (source)
  • I have subsequently invited all twenty-two of my fellow founders to our wedding, this November, and expect all to attend.†   (source)
  • In a state of euphoria, with a hunger for more and more, the council of founders cast its eye toward a future that would certainly include trade from cross-river towns.†   (source)
  • The grass did grow and the green leaves appeared on the trees and filled the avenues with shadow and shade as sure as the millionaires descended from the North on Founders' Day each spring.†   (source)
  • Of those six founders, only he survived.†   (source)
  • Both men had been the founders of the American Antislavery Society and were conducting a membership meeting that night at the store.†   (source)
  • He had been over it before; he was one of the original founders of the group, one of the men who developed the Life Analysis Protocol.†   (source)
  • Among the men put with us was George Peake, one of the founders of the South African Coloured People's Organization, a Treason Trialist, and most recently a member of the Cape Town City Council.†   (source)
  • It's as though the Founders had read Nostradamus but didn't care to admit their frivolity, or perhaps studied the drawings of Da Vinci, who foresaw aircraft.†   (source)
  • The men of that caravan-thought Eddie indifferently-looked too mean-minded to become the founders of a secret, free settlement, and not mean-minded enough to become a gang of raiders; they had no more destination to find than the motionless beam of the headlight; and, like that beam, they would dissolve somewhere in the empty stretches of the country.†   (source)
  • I'm absolutely convinced that the reason America went so far and so fast is that our founders were God-fearing men.†   (source)
  • The founders of our republic knew that an all-grasping hereditary monarch, supported by a hereditary legislature, jeopardizes liberty.†   (source)
  • As always, he wondered why America's founders had willingly placed their capital in the middle of a malarial swamp.†   (source)
  • If Carmel's founders should return, they could not afford to live there, but it wouldn't go that far.†   (source)
  • "There is no 'big Me' and 'little you,' " T. M. Alexander, one of the founders of the Southeastern Fidelity Fire Insurance Company, said.†   (source)
  • They were the founders of astrology, and, indirectly, of astronomy.†   (source)
  • But the system worked, thanks to the patient studies of the social psychologists who had been the real founders of Athens.†   (source)
  • Askold, one of the founders of the Russian state, was buried in Kiev.†   (source)
  • He admired the Federalists as the founders of the Constitution, the champions of naval power and a bulwark against French Revolutionary influences.†   (source)
  • For a few years, the founders worked in harmony together, seeking out youngsters who showed signs of magic and bringing them to the castle to be educated.   (source)
  • She concealed her loss, my dreadful betrayal, even from the other founders of Hogwarts.†   (source)
  • To try and find something from one of the other founders?†   (source)
  • Once he even called Bill Hewlett, one of the company's founders, to request parts.†   (source)
  • But you yourself approved me for this job after the original founders were purged.†   (source)
  • Joe Flom and the founders of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz got multiple breaks.†   (source)
  • I am forced to conclude that he never fulfilled his ambition of collecting four founders' objects.†   (source)
  • "It had belonged to another of Hogwarts's founders," said Dumbledore.†   (source)
  • The founders of this school were refugees themselves.†   (source)
  • He was one of the founders of Hacker Republic.†   (source)
  • I was one of the original founders, you know.†   (source)
  • We looked at the viewing patterns of young children, and we found that they were watching Laugh-In," says Lloyd Morrisett, who was one of the show's founders.†   (source)
  • Now each of these four founders Formed their own house, for each Did value different virtues In the ones they had to teach.†   (source)
  • Almost all of the sons of the founders were implicated, although none of them knew concretely what action they were plotting.†   (source)
  • And never since the founders four Were whittled down to three Have the houses been united As they once were meant to be.†   (source)
  • Four objects from the four founders would, I am sure, have exerted a powerful pull over Voldemort's imagination.†   (source)
  • As Keith Johnstone, one of the founders of improv theater, writes: "If you'll stop reading for a moment and think of something you wouldn't want to happen to you, or to someone you love, then you'll have thought of something worth staging or filming.†   (source)
  • Good Hufflepuff, she took the rest, And taught them all she knew, Thus the houses and their founders Retained friendships firm and true.†   (source)
  • They moved through the Borrow Room, where anything from bicycles to telescopes to hang gliders were loaned, for free, to anyone on staff, and onto the aquarium, a project championed by one of the founders.†   (source)
  • Twas Gryffindor who found the way, He whipped me off his head The founders put some brains in me So I could choose instead!†   (source)
  • The founders of Macondo, resolving to expel the invaders, went with their older sons to put themselves at the disposal of Jose Arcadio Buendia.†   (source)
  • The neoclassical architecture is meticulously designed to echo the grandeur of ancient Rome, whose ideals were the inspiration for America's founders in establishing the laws and culture of the new republic.†   (source)
  • One by one the old women who had been founders of the town, several of whom had taken part in the daring crossing of the mountains, praised the virtues of General Moncada.†   (source)
  • 'Well, it's an old-fashioned rule,' said Hermione, who had just slid neatly on to a rug in front of them and was now getting to her feet, 'but it says in Hogwarts: A History, that the founders thought boys were less trustworthy than girls.†   (source)
  • Then the rip near the hat's brim opened wide like a mouth and the Sorting Hat burst into song: In times of old when I was new And Hogwarts barely started The founders of our noble school Thought never to be parted: United by a common goal, They had the selfsame yearning, To make the world's best magic school And pass along their learning.†   (source)
  • One of the founders of ISI, Bud Pembroke, then got a call from the technology company TRW, which had just signed a contract to set up a computer system at the huge Bonneville Power station in southern Washington State.†   (source)
  • The adobe houses of the founders had been replaced by brick buildings with wooden blinds and cement floors which made the suffocating heat of two o'clock in the afternoon more bearable.†   (source)
  • When he would stroll through town with his closest friends, Magnifico Visbal and Gerineldo Marquez-the sons of the founders of the same names-he would look for her in the sewing shop with an anxious glance, but he saw only the older sisters.†   (source)
  • These differences caused little strife When first they came to light, For each of the four founders had A house in which they might Take only those they wanted, so, For instance, Slytherin Took only pure-blood wizards Of great cunning, just like him, And only those of sharpest mind Were taught by Ravenclaw While the bravest and the boldest Went to daring Gryffindor.†   (source)
  • As Paul Cravath, one of the founders of Cravath, Swaine and Moore, the very whitest of the white-shoe firms, once put it, the lawyer's job was to settle disputes in the conference room, not in the courtroom.†   (source)
  • Bill Joy: November 8, 1954 Joy would go on, after his stint at Berkeley, to become one of the four founders of Sun Microsystems, one of the oldest and most important of Silicon Valley's software companies.†   (source)
  • Ursula drew up a strict guest list, in which the only ones invited were the descendants of the founders, except for the family of Pilar Ternera, who by then had had two more children by unknown fathers.†   (source)
  • The primitive building of the founders became filled with tools and materials, of workmen exhausted by sweat, who asked everybody please not to molest them, exasperated by the sack of bones that followed them everywhere with its dull rattle.†   (source)
  • And if you still think that accidents of time and place and birth don't matter all that much, here are the birthdays of the three other founders of Sun Microsystems: Scott McNealy: November 13,1954 Vinod Khosla: January 28,1955 Andy Bechtolsheim: September 30, 1955 Chapter Three — The Trouble with Geniuses, Part 1†   (source)
  • The house was opened, still smelling of resin and damp whitewash, and the children and grandchildren of the founders saw the porch with ferns and begonias, the quiet rooms, the garden saturated with the fragrance of the roses, and they gathered together in the parlor, facing the unknown invention that had been covered with a white sheet.†   (source)
  • This is the Founders' Stone.†   (source)
  • We believe in following the guidance of the city's founders, which has been expressed in two ways: the formation of the factions, and the Divergent mission expressed by Edith Prior, to send people outside the fence to help whoever is out there once we have a large Divergent population.†   (source)
  • Traditional methods of raising capital were not readily available to the founders of these chains, the high school dropouts and drive-in owners who lacked "proper" business credentials.†   (source)
  • The name fits, considering that our local royalty—the founders and early employees of the most cutting edge tech companies in the world —probably got stuck on this road like everyone else.†   (source)
  • As Hogan notes in his history of the chain, Selling 'Em by the Sack (1997), the founders of White Castle placed their grills in direct view of customers, claimed that fresh ground beef was delivered twice a day, chose a name with connotations of purity, and even sponsored an experiment at the University of Minnesota in which a medical student lived for thirteen weeks on "nothing but White Castle hamburgers and water."†   (source)
  • In accordance with the intentions of our city's founders, we have two goals: to overthrow Evelyn and the factionless so that we can reestablish the factions, and to send some of our number outside the city to see what's out there.†   (source)
  • The Overlords might well be able to foresee the future of Athens more clearly than its founders-and they might not like it.†   (source)
  • One of the aims of the founders was that any member of New Athens should know all the other citizens who shared his interests-and as many as one or two per cent of the remainder as well.†   (source)
  • Even so, the founders' of New Athens could only provide the soil and the climate in which the plant they wished to cherish might-or might not-come to flower.†   (source)
  • They are the culture heroes, the city founders.†   (source)
  • And it isn't only she but a class of people who trust they will be justified, that their thoughts will be as substantial as the seven hills to build on, and by spreading their power they will have an eternal city for vindication on the day when other founders have gone down, bricks and planks, whose thoughts were not real and who built on soft swamp.†   (source)
  • I would bury the red-brown tiles and the oily portraits of old men—benefactors, founders of schools.†   (source)
  • (t) The Mythological Cycle, which describes the migrations to the island of prehistoric peoples, their battles, and in particular the deeds of the race of gods known as the Tuatha De Danaan, "Children of the Great Mother, Dana"; (2) The Annals of theMilesians, or semi-historical chronicles of the last arriving race, the sons of Milesius, founders of the Celtic dynasties that survived until the arrival of the Anglo-Normans under Henry II in the twelfth century; (3) The Ulster ()de of the Knights of the Red Branch, which treats primarily of the deeds of Cuchulainn (pronounced coohoolinn) at the court of his uncle Conchobar (pronounced conohoor): this cycle greatly influenced the developmen†   (source)
  • She was a rich mine of life, like the founders of early races.†   (source)
  • As far as he could see, religion existed to uphold the founders of a Church, a creed.†   (source)
  • If this ship founders, like the others, he is a ruined man.†   (source)
  • The founders of almost all religions have held the same language.†   (source)
  • But you took him down about the founders of Troy!†   (source)
  • I wonder if the founders had such as I in their minds—a fellow good for nothing else but that particular thing?†   (source)
  • But the hubris of reason set against the dark powers is the highest form of humanity, and as such it evokes the rage of the envious gods; per esempio, when such a luxury ark founders and plummets to the depths, that is a downfall with honor.†   (source)
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founder as in:  peace talks foundered

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  • The strategy foundered with the accident and associated publicity.
    foundered = failed
  • The money ran out, another investment foundered, the loan came due, and Louie had to turn over his keys.   (source)
  • The air here was dark too, and the creepers dropped their ropes like the rigging of foundered ships.   (source)
    foundered = sunken
  • She made little boats out of birch-bark, and freighted them with snailshells, and sent out more ventures on the mighty deep than any merchant in New England; but the larger part of them foundered near the shore.   (source)
    foundered = sank
  • In the months before the war began, my marriage to Richard was already foundering, though it might be said to have foundered from the beginning.†   (source)
  • They came out in large numbers in the aftermath of a shipwreck to stand on the beach and stare in awe at the latest foundering vessel; some brought binoculars and cameras.†   (source)
  • The vegetables in lidded serving dishes, or on platters of faded Spode, were passed up and down, and such was the collective inattention or the polite desire to conceal a lack of appetite that most ended with roast potatoes and potato salad, Brussels sprouts and beetroot, and lettuce leaves foundering in gravy.†   (source)
  • Women hold their beaded evening bags over their heads, trying to protect their foundering hairdos.†   (source)
  • The music center project had been foundering despite a $50 million donation from the wife of Walt Disney, but local philanthropist Eli Broad stepped in after her death and willed the Gehry-designed hall into existence, with a grand opening in 2003.†   (source)
  • Probably Derwent's most famous investment was the purchase of the foundering Top Mark Studios, which had not had a hit since their child star, Little Margery Morris, had died of a heroin overdose in 1934.†   (source)
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  • Her fingers bit into the flesh of my wrist; I twisted, stepping back from her, foundering in the face of the hatred, the rage rising like some dormant beast in her, looking out through her eyes.†   (source)
  • I had removed my patent leather shoes after a while, for they foundered badly in the sand.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, in the emptiness of so many women who came into his life in the same way, he did not remember that she was the one who in the delirium of that first meeting was on the point of foundering in her own tears and scarcely an hour before her death had sworn to love him until she died.†   (source)
  • This fisherman was one of several in a boat—a craft for traveling on water—that foundered ....sank beneath the water.†   (source)
  • Then, eager to catch Fischer, who was by now more than thirty minutes ahead of him, the Sherpa continued down the ridge, leaving Hansen and Hall at the top of the Hillary Step, just after Lopsang disappeared down the Step, Hansen apparently ran Out of oxygen and foundered.†   (source)
  • Hamstrung, the old old man foundered to his knees, as did his suppliant images, his congregation of terrified selves one week, one month, two years, twenty, fifty, seventy, ninety years from now!†   (source)
  • "No, it foundered," she said.†   (source)
  • "This horse is foundering," I say.†   (source)
  • One of the Myrish galleys had foundered in the Straits of Tarth, and a storm had overtaken them as they were entering the Gullet, scattering the fleet across half the narrow sea.†   (source)
  • Through Evernight he back was borne on black and roaring waves that ran o'er leagues unlit and foundered shores that drowned before the Days began, until he heard on strands of pearl when ends the world the music long, where ever foaming billows roll the yellow gold and jewels wan.†   (source)
  • Nothing in Tom-Carl's face indicated that he might have a rude surprise coming to him: already, prosperity-bred independence had undermined his kingdom until it was foundering; two more elections and it would crumble into thesis material for a sociology major.†   (source)
  • We had many fruitful discussions about the unity of our two organizations, but after Makwetu was released and was succeeded in the PAC leadership on Robben Island by John Pokela, the talks foundered.†   (source)
  • "Conveniently foundering the boat in reef waters," completed Jason.†   (source)
  • The mail foundered with the government; they received no answer.†   (source)
  • Nobody understood better than he the connection between the construction or destruction of state institutions and the founding or foundering of cultural life, but on this occasion he chose to talk instead about the Irish Dramatic Movement.†   (source)
  • You may say itis to prevent our reason from foundering.†   (source)
  • This extremity took the form of the craggy rock of sex, upon which I had obviously though inexplicably foundered.†   (source)
  • ...reading the names of vessels that had long ago foundered at sea or rotted at the wharves,   (source)
    foundered = failed; or sank
  • His knights rode destriers, and the big warhorses were foundering in the snow.†   (source)
  • They would have foundered in the Dead Marshes but for Gollum.†   (source)
  • They slid across the snowdrifts smoothly, where the wheeled chariots were foundering and sinking.†   (source)
  • "Apparently he's foundering," says August.†   (source)
  • Victarion had no way to know whether they had foundered, run aground, or been blown off course.†   (source)
  • The Captains of the West were foundering in a gathering sea.†   (source)
  • From the size of the jar you can tell how old it was when it foundered, inside her, flowed to its death.†   (source)
  • In the months before the war began, my marriage to Richard was already foundering, though it might be said to have foundered from the beginning.†   (source)
  • We crossed it and turned north, past streets of what used to be workers' cottages and are now what is known as "starter homes," then a few small businesses: an auto wrecker, a foundering health-food emporium, an orthopedic shoe outlet with a green neon foot flashing on and off as if walking all by itself in one place.†   (source)
  • By the time they emerged from the cutoff, the galley was foundering amongst pools, eddies, and snags, and Jaime Lannister had decided that the gods were good.†   (source)
  • At last the wizard passed into a song of which the hobbit caught the words: a few lines came clear to his ears through the rushing of the wind: Tall ships and tall kings Three times three, What brought they from the foundered land Over the flowing sea?†   (source)
  • The first three individuals were associated with the prison system, so if talks foundered or were leaked to the press, both sides would be able to cover up and say we were discussing prison conditions and nothing more.†   (source)
  • Relationships have foundered.†   (source)
  • "Foundering," I say.†   (source)
  • Out swept his sword, and he spurred to the standard, hewed staff and bearer; and the black serpent foundered.†   (source)
  • I began to laugh a trifle nervously, struck by the fact that in this weird conversation with its desperate undertone, at least on my part, we should already have foundered on the shoals of sex.†   (source)
  • 'Yes,' said Faramir, 'of the land of Westernesse that foundered and of the great dark wave climbing over the green lands and above the hills, and coming on, darkness unescapable.†   (source)
  • Whether they have foundered, whether they have anchored, she cares no longer.†   (source)
  • This human form, his friend's, lacerated by the spear-thrusts of the plague, consumed by searing, superhuman fires, buffeted by all the raging winds of heaven, was foundering under his eyes in the dark flood of the pestilence, and he could do nothing to avert the wreck.†   (source)
  • They have scattered, they have foundered, all except my ship, which mounts the wave and sweeps before the gale and reaches the islands where the parrots chatter and the creepers ....' 'Where is Bernard?' said Neville.†   (source)
  • A canopy, which had been carried on four poles over somebody or something, was sinking with the poles askew, like a liner foundering in Atlantic.†   (source)
  • As they splashed and drew back they left a black rim of twigs and cork on the shore and straws and sticks of wood, as if some light shallop had foundered and burst its sides and the sailor had swum to land and bounded up the cliff and left his frail cargo to be washed ashore.†   (source)
  • Manifestly they had drunk too deeply, if they had not foundered, for most of them lay down.†   (source)
  • He describes how a feeble little nag has foundered under too heavy a load and cannot move.†   (source)
  • It was enough to irritate a meeker man than he; for it was foundering almost within the port.†   (source)
  • For there were still two men lying impotent in their bunks; and these, seeing the water pour in and thinking the ship had foundered, began to cry out aloud, and that with such harrowing cries that all who were on deck tumbled one after another into the skiff and fell to their oars.†   (source)
  • Upon sailors as superstitious as those of the age preceding ours, men-of-war's-men too who had just beheld the prodigy of repose in the form suspended in air and now foundering in the deeps; to such mariners the action of the sea-fowl, tho' dictated by mere animal greed for prey, was big with no prosaic significance.†   (source)
  • The story came to him on various occasions, in fragments and as connected narratives, and not only did he himself consider it highly remarkable, but he encouraged Ferge and Wehsal to do so as well, which they did—the former, of course, with a qualifying reminder that all higher things were foreign to him (for only the experience of pleural shock had ever lifted him above life's most unpretentious levels); the latter, however, with obvious pleasure in the happy course an oppressed man's life had taken, even though—since all good things must come to an end—it was now at a standstill and appeared to be foundering in their common malady.†   (source)
  • To my surprise, my clothes had dried on me and there seemed no indications of catching cold, either from the last soaking or from the prolonged soaking from the foundering of the Martinez.†   (source)
  • The few words which some one had let fall, in his hearing, about a man who, it appeared, had been Odette's lover, had left Swann dumb foundered.†   (source)
  • Now, gentlemen, sweeping a ship's deck at sea is a piece of household work which in all times but raging gales is regularly attended to every evening; it has been known to be done in the case of ships actually foundering at the time.†   (source)
  • Well, then, if, like us, your excellency lived at Leghorn, you would hear, from time to time, that a little merchant vessel, or an English yacht that was expected at Bastia, at Porto-Ferrajo, or at Civita Vecchia, has not arrived; no one knows what has become of it, but, doubtless, it has struck on a rock and foundered.†   (source)
  • His last valet was a big, foundered, short-winded fellow of fifty-five, who was incapable of running twenty paces; but, as he had been born at Bayonne, M. Gillenormand called him Basque.†   (source)
  • 'Why, Daisy, old boy, dumb-foundered!' laughed Steerforth, shaking my hand heartily, and throwing it gaily away.†   (source)
  • I never put my axe into a stunty tree, or one that hasn't a good, fresh-looking bark: for trees have disorders, like creatur's; and where's the policy of taking a tree that's sickly, any more than you'd choose a foundered horse to ride post, or an over heated ox to do your logging?†   (source)
  • I'm a gettin' purty heavy t' be on m'laigs all day, but we can't afford t' hire, so I keep rackin' around somehow, like a foundered horse.†   (source)
  • Hippolyte went to Neufchatel, and Justin so spurred Bovary's horse that he left it foundered and three parts dead by the hill at Bois-Guillaume.†   (source)
  • The picture represents a Cape-Horner in a great hurricane; the half-foundered ship weltering there with its three dismantled masts alone visible; and an exasperated whale, purposing to spring clean over the craft, is in the enormous act of impaling himself upon the three mast-heads.†   (source)
  • 'My station, Mas'r Davy,' he returned, 'ain't there no longer; and if ever a boat foundered, since there was darkness on the face of the deep, that one's gone down.†   (source)
  • This ended, in prolonged solemn tones, like the continual tolling of a bell in a ship that is foundering at sea in a fog—in such tones he commenced reading the following hymn; but changing his manner towards the concluding stanzas, burst forth with a pealing exultation and joy— "The ribs and terrors in the whale, Arched over me a dismal gloom, While all God's sun-lit waves rolled by, And lift me deepening down to doom.†   (source)
  • Joining these groups, I found bewailing women whose husbands were away in herring or oyster boats, which there was too much reason to think might have foundered before they could run in anywhere for safety.†   (source)
  • 'It is not for one, situated, through his original errors and a fortuitous combination of unpropitious events, as is the foundered Bark (if he may be allowed to assume so maritime a denomination), who now takes up the pen to address you — it is not, I repeat, for one so circumstanced, to adopt the language of compliment, or of congratulation.†   (source)
  • "Captain Peleg," said Bildad steadily, "thy conscience may be drawing ten inches of water, or ten fathoms, I can't tell; but as thou art still an impenitent man, Captain Peleg, I greatly fear lest thy conscience be but a leaky one; and will in the end sink thee foundering down to the fiery pit, Captain Peleg."†   (source)
  • The treasure, all that he brought to Troy in his long ships— would god he had foundered on the way!†   (source)
  • And, when at length the embargo was taken off, by neglecting to send notice of it to Charlestown, the Carolina fleet was detain'd near three months longer, whereby their bottoms were so much damaged by the worm that a great part of them foundered in their passage home.†   (source)
  • With wings of the wind they cross the sea's huge gulfs,
    shrouded in mist and cloud—no fear in the world of foundering,
    fatal shipwreck.†   (source)
  • On the seventh we launched out from the plains of Crete
    with a stiff North Wind fair astern—smooth sailing,
    aye, like coasting on downstream ...
    And not one craft in our squadron foundered;
    all shipshape, and all hands sound, we sat back
    while the wind and helmsmen kept us true on course.†   (source)
  • I see ships foundering at sea, I behold on deck and below deck the
    terrible tableaus.†   (source)
  • We are liege subjects of the catholic chivalry of Europe that foundered at Trafalgar and of the empire of the spirit, not an imperium, that went under with the Athenian fleets at Aegospotami.†   (source)
  • Thought
    As I sit with others at a great feast, suddenly while the music is playing,
    To my mind, (whence it comes I know not,) spectral in mist of a
    wreck at sea,
    Of certain ships, how they sail from port with flying streamers and
    wafted kisses, and that is the last of them,
    Of the solemn and murky mystery about the fate of the President,
    Of the flower of the marine science of fifty generations founder'd
    off the Northeast coast and going down—of the steamship Arctic
    going down,
    Of the veil'd tableau-women gather'd together on deck, pale, heroic,
    waiting the moment that draws so close—O the moment!†   (source)
  • On the 16th, he was parted from us by a storm; I heard since my return, that his ship foundered, and none escaped but one cabin boy.†   (source)
  • As I hope For quiet days, fair issue, and long life, With such love as 'tis now, the murkiest den, The most opportune place, the strong'st suggestion Our worser genius can, shall never melt Mine honour into lust, to take away The edge of that day's celebration, When I shall think, or Phoebus' steeds are founder'd, Or Night kept chain'd below.†   (source)
  • While he was proving this a priori, the ship foundered; all perished except Pangloss, Candide, and that brutal sailor who had drowned the good Anabaptist.†   (source)
  • I have speeded hither with the very extremest inch of possibility; I have foundered nine score and odd posts: and here, travel-tainted as I am, have, in my pure and immaculate valour, taken Sir John Colevile of the dale, a most furious knight and valorous enemy.†   (source)
  • The sea went mountains high: I could see nothing but distress around us; two ships had cut their masts on board, and another was foundered; two more that had lost their anchors, were forced out to the mercy of the ocean; and to save our lives we were forced to cut our foremast and mainmast quite away.†   (source)
  • That fury stayed—
    Quenched in a boggy Syrtis, neither sea,
    Nor good dry land—nigh foundered, on he fares,
    Treading the crude consistence, half on foot,
    Half flying; behoves him now both oar and sail.†   (source)
  • For, as thou seest thyself, our ship of State, Sore buffeted, can no more lift her head, Foundered beneath a weltering surge of blood.†   (source)
  • All our pumping had been in vain, and vain had all our attempts been, had they not come to our ship's side, and our men cast them a rope over the stern with a buoy to it, which after great labour they got hold of, and we hauling them up to us got into their boat, and left our ship which we perceived sink within less than a quarter of an hour; and thus I learned what was meant by foundering at sea.†   (source)
  • Some were condensing air into a dry tangible substance, by extracting the nitre, and letting the aqueous or fluid particles percolate; others softening marble, for pillows and pin-cushions; others petrifying the hoofs of a living horse, to preserve them from foundering.†   (source)
  • Him, haply slumbering on the Norway foam,
    The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff,
    Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell,
    With fixed anchor in his scaly rind,
    Moors by his side under the lee, while night
    Invests the sea, and wished morn delays.†   (source)
  • I owned "that the Houyhnhnms among us, whom we called horses, were the most generous and comely animals we had; that they excelled in strength and swiftness; and when they belonged to persons of quality, were employed in travelling, racing, or drawing chariots; they were treated with much kindness and care, till they fell into diseases, or became foundered in the feet; but then they were sold, and used to all kind of drudgery till they died; after which their skins were stripped, and sold for what they were worth, and their bodies left to be devoured by dogs and birds of prey.†   (source)
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  • The Carraways are something of a clan, and we have a tradition that we're descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch, but the actual founder of my line was my grandfather's brother, who came here in fifty-one, sent a substitute to the Civil War, and started the wholesale hardware business that my father carries on today.   (source)
    founder = fail; or sink
  • He had studied in the madrasa of Maulana Sufi Mohammad, the founder of the TNSM, and married his daughter.†   (source)
  • It blinked at me silently as I crossed the enormous cathedral-like room, which was a perfect re-creation of the office of the Tyrell Corporation's founder, Eldon Tyrell.†   (source)
  • In addition she was the daughter of Captain Norval Chase who will be long remembered by this town, and granddaughter of Benjamin Chase, founder of Chase Industries which put up the Button Factory and others.†   (source)
  • 'Russell Pickett, the controversial CEO and founder of Pickett Engineering, wasn't home when a search warrant was served by the Indianapolis police Friday morning, and he hasn't been home since.†   (source)
  • Translator's Note: Mozi was the founder of the Mohist school of philosophy during the Warring States Period.†   (source)
  • Vince had become the famous founder of the meshnet that had saved untold lives, helping maintain order when everything else had failed.†   (source)
  • The Pondicherry Zoo was the source of some pleasure and many headaches for Mr. San tosh Patel, founder, owner, director, head of a staff of fifty-three, and my father.†   (source)
  • We'd previously honored Marian Wright Edelman, the heroic civil rights lawyer and founder of the Children's Defense Fund.†   (source)
  • Fortunately, Dagobert's son, Sigisbert, secretly escaped the attack and carried on the lineage, which later included Godefroi de Bouillon—founder of the Priory of Sion.†   (source)
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  • The sword had once belonged to Godric Gryffindor, founder of Harry's House.†   (source)
  • The quote was from Ted Turner, the billionaire media mogul, founder of CNN, who had been lamenting his inability to snatch up the CBS network in a corporate megadeal.†   (source)
  • Several of my neighbors asked me, as a founder and past president of the Downtown Neighborhood Association, to do something about it.†   (source)
  • They were as good as lost forever, it seemed to Ishmael, and no one knew the truth of the matter: that on the night Carl Heine had drowned, stopping his watch at 1:47, a freighter plowed through Ship Channel Bank at 1:42—just five minutes earlier—no doubt throwing before it a wall of water big enough to founder a small gill-netting boat and toss even a big man overboard.†   (source)
  • Thank Heavens for Hurd's Church; that was the unfortunate name of the nondenominational church at Gravesend Academy—it was named after the academy's founder, that childless Puritan, the Rev. Emery Hurd himself.†   (source)
  • The geezer's wife, Eleanor Causwell, an original founder of the League, frowns.†   (source)
  • The great expanses of wall space were opaque with canvas, portraits in oil of deceased headmasters, a founder or two, forgotten leaders of the faculty, a beloved athletic coach none of us had ever heard of, a lady we could not identify—her fortune had largely rebuilt the school; a nameless poet who was thought when under the school's protection to be destined primarily for future generations; a young hero now anonymous who looked theatrical in the First World War uniform in which he had died.†   (source)
  • It was this man that Okonkwo threw in a fight which the old men agreed was one of the fiercest since the founder of their town engaged a spirit of the wild for seven days and seven nights.†   (source)
  • Then, in a booming voice, Jillson announced, "And now, everyone, it is our great pleasure to introduce to you the esteemed founder, president, and principal of our beloved Institute: Mr. Ledroptha Curtain!"†   (source)
  • I was not afraid the Aurora would founder, but the pirate ship.†   (source)
  • In 1968, Wallerstein went to work for McDonald's, but try as he might, he couldn't convince Ray Kroc, the company's founder, to try supersizing.†   (source)
  • And so was the founder of the Daily Gleaner [Jamaica's major newspaper].†   (source)
  • She'd be too intimidated, and probably embarrassed—my family is impure, tainted by Marcia's husband's defection and, of course, by my mother, and Mr. Doveney is the president and founder of the Portland chapter of the DFA, Deliria-Free America.†   (source)
  • The hammer and stars are inlaid into Tronjheim's floor because it was the personal crest of Korgan, our founder.†   (source)
  • Two were b. autiful racing yachts that were used only twice a year to wm the Founder's Regatta and the Covenant Criterium.†   (source)
  • During the previous summer, the founder of one of Japan's largest insurance companies had dismissed his son as president, and turned his company over instead to a much younger man—his illegitimate son by a Tokyo geisha.†   (source)
  • Most people who lived here considered him the founder of Shadbagh-e-Nau, and Adel knew that the town elders had offered to name the town after Baba jan but he had declined the honor.†   (source)
  • The new minister introduces her as "the original founder of our church."†   (source)
  • The name Stead was well known in America because of Herbert's more famous brother, William, the former editor of London's Pall Mall Gazette and recent founder of The Review of Reviews.†   (source)
  • —Colonel Charlie A. Beckwith, U.S. ARMY DELTA FORCE FOUNDER†   (source)
  • Even during his lifetime he was considered somewhat enigmatic, and fairly soon after his death he was held to be the founder of any number of different philosophical schools of thought.†   (source)
  • If the issue of consent isn't addressed, Robert Weir, founder of the biomedical ethics center at the University of Iowa, sees only one outcome: "Patients turn to law as a last resort when they don't see their participation being acknowledged."†   (source)
  • I could feel the awe of the audience as she seemed to founder in the spotlight, the dark forest rising on the perimeter, so that she seemed to be lost in the trees.†   (source)
  • Collins was Miss Everything and dating Cannon Smith, the son of the billionaire founder of Federal Express.†   (source)
  • Rife contributed $500 to the Highlands Church of the Baptism by Fire, Reverend Wayne Bedford, head minister; $2,500 to the Pentecostal Youth League of Bayside, Reverend Wayne Bedford, president; $150,000 to the Pentecostal Church of the New Trinity, Reverend Wayne Bedford, founder and patriarch; $2.3 million to Rife Bible College, Reverend Wayne Bedford, President and chairman of the theology department; $20 million to the archaeology department of Rife Bible College, plus $45 million to the astronomy department and $100 million to the computer science department.†   (source)
  • The next day the stench of the waterless toilets was overpowering, but Miguel organized a cleanup and ordered that the toilets not be used: everyone should relieve themselves in the courtyard, in a hole that had been dug alongside the stone statues of the founder of the university.†   (source)
  • The voice belonged to Luma Mufleh, the thirty-one-year-old founder and volunteer coach of the Fugees.†   (source)
  • The boat, one of three identical vessels belonging to the River Company of the Caribbean, had been renamed in honor of the founder: Pius V Loayza.†   (source)
  • Bill Heavener, my parents' friend and the founder of Full Sail University, brought a couple of RVs up to Gainesville to transport twelve underprivileged kids with us to Disney World for the day, with at least one adult per child going along.†   (source)
  • In 1992, Men's Journal assigned me to write an article about riding a Harley-Davidson motorcycle from New York to San Francisco in the company of Jann Wenner-the legendary, exceedingly rich publisher of Rolling Stone, Men's journal, and Us-and several of his wealthy friends, including Rocky Hill, Pittman's brother and her husband, Bob Pittman, the co —founder of MTV.†   (source)
  • Mr. George L. Carter, the founder of Coalwood, came in on the back of a mule in 1887, finding nothing but wilderness and, after he dug a little, one of the richest seams of bituminous coal in the world.†   (source)
  • Feamster had played on youth hockey teams in Detroit with the sons of the company's founder, Mike Hitch.†   (source)
  • "If anyone was the founder of the modern human-rights movement," The Economist has observed, "it was Clarkson.†   (source)
  • Gymkhana, Track and Field Day, the School Carnival, the Christmas Pageant, the School Play, Guy Fawkes Night, Founder's Day, and Graduation—we carried so many mimeographed notices home that they made Hema's head spin.†   (source)
  • Good, yes, but Otrera is the founder of the Amazons.†   (source)
  • If we dont founder on deermeat I'm a chinaman.†   (source)
  • When he finally found a clearing, he wouldn't leave it, and Pickles Gap came into being, mainly attracting travelers like its founder, which is to say people too weak-willed to be able to negotiate a few hundred miles of mesquite thicket without losing their nerve.†   (source)
  • During his senior year there, he became engaged to the daughter of the founder and owner of the school, and then suffered a mild nervous collapse.†   (source)
  • It is worth remembering that Adam Smith, the founder of classical economics, was first and foremost a philosopher.†   (source)
  • The Star's founder, Colonel Ayers, had believed it was a newspaper's responsibility to be an attorney for the least influential, the weakest, of its readership, and there were many, many people who passed through the doors of that place who read those words on the editorial page and took them to heart.†   (source)
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