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His boat was washed ashore on a desert island.
The ship was washed ashore after being battered by the waves for days on end.
While we were comforting ourselves by the fire after our meal, the Jack-who was sitting in a corner, and who had a bloated pair of shoes on, which he had exhibited while we were eating our eggs and bacon, as interesting relics that he had taken a few days ago from the feet of a drowned seaman washed ashore-asked me if we had seen a four-oared galley going up with the tide?
a fringe of trees against the sky with the grey ghost of a bloom upon them; not only is it a still night in gardens and in woods, and on the river where the water-meadows are fresh and green, and the stream sparkles on among pleasant islands, murmuring weirs, and whispering rushes; not only does the stillness attend it as it flows where houses cluster thick, where many bridges are reflected in it, where wharves and shipping make it black and awful, where it winds from these disfigurements through marshes whose grim beacons stand like skeletons washed ashore, where it expands through the bolder region of rising grounds, rich in cornfield wind-mill and steeple, and where it mingles with the ever-heaving sea; not only is it a still night on the deep, and on the shore where the watcher stands to see the ship with her spread wings cross the path of light that appears to be presented to only him; but even on this stranger's wilderness of London there is some rest.
It goes like this: In 1845, the fungus Phytophora infestans arrived on the Isle of Wight, off the coast of England, when an infected potato peel from an American ship washed ashore.
I'll put my head back, daub a few last drops On another bloody lucky day, and dwell On the wheels, on the spokes of the wheels, Of my daughter's tricycle, while someone Whom I'll never meet and care about As much as care imagined can, tears out The front-page photo of a size-4 Nike Washed ashore, because he knows He knows the shoe.
Legend has it that well before Christianity came to the Canaries an image of the Virgin was washed ashore here and worshipped by the Guanches, who were quite oblivious to its Christian significance.
The name La Ropa (“the Clothing”) was given to the beach where the silk later washed ashore.
The beach was named for the yards of colorful cloth that washed ashore centuries ago, following a trading galleon’s wreck.
The body of Colonel Fitzgerald was washed ashore the same day of the sinking, but the sea did not give up Kitchener or any of the other members of his staff.
I was insensible when washed ashore, but the miserable remnant of my superb specimen was still intact; I now lay it before you.
A boat, supposed to belong to the Union Aquatic Sons of Shop Walkers, was washed ashore on Hungerford Muds, with an old ribbon-box, apparently used for a sea-chest, containing wearing apparel, 1s. 8d. in fourpenny pieces, and sundry small pieces of paper, with "Dry," sign of the "Three Balls," printed thereon, and endorsed, "Shawl, 3s. 6d., 30 remnants of ribbon 7s. 6d., waistcoat satin, 1 yard 3s. 6d.," &c. &c.
No bodies, strangely enough, have been washed ashore.
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