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
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
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
His ship is wrecked on the English coast, and the captain, Tibaldo, is cast ashore in a dying condition.
From The Grateful Dead The History of a Folk Story by Gordon Hall Gerould
The blue waves cast ashore her body, which was found by two pilgrims, who made the arms into a harp, and the flaxen locks into strings.
From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
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