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

At ten o'clock we were cast ashore, in darkness and in rain; so that instead of feeling any inspiration, we felt only that we were very wet and very cold.

From From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn by Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)

Chylocladia clavellosa, which is sometimes cast ashore a foot and a half long, is closely set with branches, and these again clothed with branchlets in one or two series.

From Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils by Gray, Peter