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

A fragment of drift-wood, cast ashore from the old letters of the period, shows in what guise he flitted before contemporary faces.

From The Earl of Mayo Rulers of India by Hunter, William Wilson

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 Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn