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

It was very nice indeed, and he had the best meal he had enjoyed since the ship had been wrecked on the reef, and he had been cast ashore on that island.

From The Giant Crab and Other Tales from Old India by Rouse, W.H.D.

The hull of the foreign vessel was carried out to sea at night, and apparently knocked to pieces by the waves, for many portions of the wreck were cast ashore along the adjacent coast.

From The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. II (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors by Various