castaway

• Everything connected with the internal movements or the external management of the place is in full view: the woodpile with its chips scattered about over a radius of fifty yards; a number of old, castaway, and condemned vehicles lie where they were left after their last use; mounds of rubbish and old brushwood, weeds, soiled clothing, farming tools, and implements of husbandry, are here and there, uncared for, unnoticed, and neglected. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
• What are ocean's pending perils to this human castaway, about whose hunted soul seem closing the tentacles of fate Roar of tempest, blinding electric flash, rushing wave, descending spray, creaking timbers, with instinctive ravening of ocean's hungry hordes, are luring, friendly greetings compared to merciless clamor of that receding shore Spending its spasmodic heat, the storm subsides, and the ship plows on toward destined port CHAPTER VI THE TRIPLE WEB Sir Donald and Esther returned from the opera expecting to meet their friends. —  Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898
• Altogether, this poor castaway was as fine a specimen of a British tar as one could wish to see, despite his wasted condition and his un-British garb It was finally decided to leave him undisturbed, and the Eskimo family took care while supping to eat their food in comparative silence. —  Red Rooney The Last of the Crew
• The castaway, already on his knees, raised his hands in devout thanksgiving Thank God!" —  Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers
• I am a castaway, and have been adrift in this boat ten days. —  The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn

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