Shipwrecky

"I was only joking. We've escaped from a burning vessel, you know, and every one else is either burned or drowned. We've provisions for a month, if we don't eat too much, and we're in the South Sea Islands. South Sea Islands sound nice and shipwrecky, don't you think so?"

But down below he is not so good by any means — no spring from the loins, and feeblish, not to say shipwrecky, about the knees.

So there I was, standing by the roadside in pitch darkness with my belongings and shipwrecky knees.