cast ashore
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If you fail to plot your course . . . one day you will be wrecked and cast ashore.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then he drifted for days, until finally he was cast ashore on Calypso’s island, where he had to stay for many years.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
At last, on the rocky shingle at the edge of the sea, they found two logs, sea-tossed, that had floated there on the tides and been cast ashore.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
One day a ship was wrecked upon the coast near the goblin city, and five hundred sailors were cast ashore.
From The Giant Crab and Other Tales from Old India by W.H.D. Rouse
Far rather would I meet Dutchman or Frenchman in fair fight than be cast ashore on the devil-haunted coast of Purbeck.
From A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
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