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
He had been the mate of the Surprise, armed trader, which had been cast ashore on the Barbary coast, all her crew being carried into captivity.
From The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
Had they, had any of them, been cast ashore like himself, on some other part of this strange coast?
From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Herbert Strang
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