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

About 700 men were cast ashore in Scotland, were humanely treated, and subsequently sent, by request of the Prince of Parma, to the Netherlands.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 by Whymper, Frederick

They were cast ashore without resources; hating the poor-house as a shelter for their offspring, and abhorring the thought of selling themselves as laborers.

From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various