How To Use Cast away In A Sentence
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He cast away his baggage and fled to Shanghai.
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Kaahumanu, abolished tabu, and his subjects cast away their idols, and fell into indifferent scepticism, the high priest Hewahewa being the first to light the iconoclastic torch, having previously given his opinion that there was only one great akua or spirit in lani, the heavens.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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There is not in the whole annals of aerostation a more moving catastrophe than that of the unfortunate Comte Zambeccari, who, during an aerial journey on October the 7th, 1804, was cast away on the waves of the Adriatic.
Wonderful Balloon Ascents
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We were cast away by the storm on an island without food or water.
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They were a bunch of raggle-taggle wanderers, individuals, cast away from society to partake on the last quest of each of their lives.
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We should be most unwise, indeed, were we to cast away the singular blessings of the position in which nature has placed us, the opportunity she has endowed us with of pursuing, at a distance from foreign contentions, the paths of industry, peace, and happiness, of cultivating general friendship, and of bringing collisions of interest to the umpirage of reason rather than of force.
State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
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At that time I had only had one conference with one about it; and for books I had only seen some few, and those so exceedingly inconsiderable, and so fully familistical, forced with so much contempt of the word, that I was not willing to cast away the least moment on them.
The Death of Death in the Death of Christ
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Then sir Matthew strake asunder the spear with his sword; and when sir James Lindsay saw how he had lost his spear, he cast away the truncheon and lighted afoot, and took a little battle-axe that he carried at his back and handled it with his one hand quickly and deliverly, in the which feat Scots be well expert, and then he set at sir Matthew and he defended himself properly.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
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In some ways you could read Cast Away as a tale of escape from the ties that bind us to systems, technologies, and other people, though the character's desperation to get home seems to tell us otherwise.
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They were cast away on a desert island without food or water.
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The hideous roses were flotsam and she was cast away on a tide of detritus.
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The ship was cast away on the coast of Europe.
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God hath not cast away his people, which he foreknew.
Archive 2009-05-01
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argosies" which reached the shores of England was cast away on the Isle of Wight, A.D.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
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And those that are intended to amuse oneself at the cost of others should definitely be cast away on the rubbish heap.
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We should be most unwise, indeed, were we to cast away the singular blessings of the position in which nature has placed us, the opportunity she has endowed us with of pursuing, at a distance from foreign contentions, the paths of industry, peace, and happiness; of cultivating general friendship, and of bringing collisions of interest to the umpirage of reason rather than of force.
Inaugural Addresses and Messages
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Kwan Yung-jin, the provincial governor who had planked and beaten us when we were first cast away,
Chapter 15
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What would you do if you were cast away on a desert island?
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And further when there come any English Merchants with their ships or vessels by sea, that by mishap shalbe cast away vpon any of our shoars or costes, we wil and command you to ayde & helpe them, and to seeke for their goods so perished by any casualtie, and to be restored againe to the saide English merchants or their assignes without any prolonging or detayning.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Then cast away _all_ the loathsome littleness which has rusted and fouled around you, and look at Nature as she literally _is_, in her naked beauty, conceiving and forming, quickening and warming into infinitely varied and lovely life, and then _forming_ once again with the strong and harsh influences of death, pain and decay.
The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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Thus saith the Lord: If My covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth, then will I cast away the seed of Jacob and David My servant, so that I will not take any of _his seed_ to be rulers over the seed of
The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882
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If you were cast away on a desert island, what would you miss most?
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Plastic everything was cast away everywhere, along with old one-of-a-kind sneakers, worn out towels and pieces of clothing.
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A time to gather stones together, a time to cast away stones.
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What percentage of the population has been cast away, not counted any more as unemployed, although they are unemployed, and in need of employment?
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In fact, God had often chastised them for their idolatry (see Jud 2: 14); but it is the curse of impiety not to perceive the hand of God in calamities. victuals -- Men cast away the bread of the soul for the bread that perisheth (De 8: 3; Joh 6: 27).
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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They had cast away their clothes, and painted themselves, like the Indians, with arnotto and indigo.
Westward Ho!
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He will cast away this money just as he has done in the past.
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Terren's staff sang out with a lamenting dirge, causing many men to cast away their weapons and run for safety, allowing Terren to cut down their abandoned comrades with his staff and short, erratic bursts of magic.
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What would you do if you were cast away on a desert island?
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We're basically conditioning our physical bodies to run with our spirits when we cast away the mundane and fly into the world of ritual.
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The difficulty arises from an apparent contradiction in terms; and that difficulty is as complete in the case of a headache which lasts for an hour as in the case of a pestilence which unpeoples an empire, -- in the case of the gust which makes us shiver for a moment as in the case of the hurricane in which an Armada is cast away.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2
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The ship was cast away on the coast of Europe.
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So is it his idea to cast away Israel at the expense of peace in the middle east? doris
Stark endorses Obama
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I swear to you, my girl, that if women warriors were like the woodman's daughter, I would cast away all arms except these with which to enclasp her.
The Strong Arm
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But when the last one ended, that anxiety was cast away.
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Don't cast away these old papers; they might come in useful.
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Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
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A stone's cast away stood a little mott of coma trees; beneath it a _jacal_ such as the Mexicans erect -- a one-room house of upright poles daubed with clay and roofed with grass or tule reeds.
Roads of Destiny
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His observations revealed that the two creatures were in fact one and the same: the adult develops inside the swimming larva, whose body is cast away when the adult takes up residence on the seabed.
