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The Straight Nopes are a collection of near daily critiques on cast-away style in modern American culture.
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The Straight Nopes are a collection of near daily critiques on cast-away style in modern American culture.
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Bioshock is a first person shooter game in which you play as “a cast-away in Rapture, an underwater Utopia torn apart by civil war”.
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For, pursuing the image of the cast-away blundering upon the complications of an unknown scheme of life, it was I, the castaway, who was the savage, the simple innocent child of nature.
The Arrow of Gold 2006
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Crusoe — both were associated with the spirit of adventure; but whilst the imagined life of the cast-away mariner never failed to seem glaringly real, the true story of the Englishwoman ruling over
Eothen 2003
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They found one old barn-like shed stacked with ancient cast-away junk, and Julian rummaged in it with great interest.
Five On Finniston Farm Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1960
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This class included those who had been about the streets and yards, back of barns and in old corner-lots, picking up nails or cast-away bits of iron.
The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play Edward A. Rand
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Elizabeth making a Voyage to the East India, were cast-away, and wracked on the Island near to the Coast of Australis, and all drowned, except one Man and four Women, whereof one was a Negro.
The Isle Of Pines (1668) and An Essay in Bibliography by Worthington Chauncey Ford Henry Neville
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Algoa Bay is not much of a shelter, and it is always a chance whether a sudden south-easter may not come tearing down upon the shipping, necessitating a sudden tripping of anchors and running out to sea to avoid the fate which is staring us warningly in the face in the shape of the gaunt ribs or rusty cylinders of sundry cast-away vessels.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various
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The bleaching bones of cattle that had perished, or the broken fragments of wagons or cast-away articles, were thickly strewn on either side of the highway.
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