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Example sentences for "cast away"

  • We are a wealthy company, but we cast away no money.

  • But simply that casually, as things came about, he cast away in some degree that cowardly veil of caution, which is always so abhorrent to our better feelings.

  • To cast away my life upon a man, who swore that I was all the world to him, and believed it perhaps, while I was new.

  • The devil would cunningly steal that from you by drops, which he cannot get you to cast away profusely at once; he that will not spend prodigally by the pounds, may run out by not regarding pence.

  • His Beard as white as Snow, All Flaxen was his Pole: He is gone, he is gone, and we cast away mone, Gramercy on his Soule.

  • I would bee loath to cast away my speech: for besides that it is excellently well pend, I haue taken great paines to con it.

  • Faith vnlesse you play the honest Troyan, the poore Wench is cast away: she's quick, the child brags in her belly alreadie: tis yours Brag.

  • But you're cast away with grub, and that's not so bad.

  • The worst fix a man can get in, to my thinkin', is to be cast away on a rock, or on the ice, without grub.

  • Here on The Labrador we stands shoulder to shoulder, and when a man's cast away we takes him to our home till he can get to his own home.

  • And when Odysseus was shipwrecked and cast away, did his need humble him one whit or break his spirit?

  • It is not simply unlawful to cast away a cup of wine or a piece of silver (for it is lawful upon a sufficient cause); but it is unlawful to do it without any sufficient cause.

  • Also to be careless in many small expenses or losses, because they are but little things, and let any such thing be cast away, is sinful prodigality.

  • I rather think that I am bound in such a case; but yet that my obligation doth not exclude me wholly from sin; it was a sin before I promised it (or vowed it) to cast away a farthing causelessly.

  • How far might they go on in pilgrimage in their day, since they notwithstanding were thus miserably cast away?

  • Wherefore, though thou shouldest be so rash as to cast away thyself; yet, for the sake of the fruit of thy body, keep thou at home.

  • Judas the devil was also of this religion; he was religious for the bag, that he might be possessed of what was therein; but he was lost, cast away, and the very son of perdition.

  • What shall ye profit, if ye lose your precious souls, and be cast away?

  • I am well pleased to cast away my own as dung, and find myself no other than an ungodly man.

  • You cannot but be cast away in the day when he makes up his jewels.

  • He is gone, he is gone, And we cast away moan.

  • Then if he thrive and I be cast away, The worst was this, my love was my decay.

  • Faith, unless you play the honest Troyan, the poor wench is cast away.

  • I don't ever expect to be cast away again, so there!

  • We must admit Neale O'Neil is a very good person to have along if one is to be cast away on an uninhabited island," said the critical sister, smiling.

  • You'd think Neale O'Neil had expected to be cast away on a desert island," declared the younger sister.

  • But the fact remained that being cast away on one island was just about the same as being cast away on another.

  • Oh for watchfulness unto prayer continually, and that the cumber of earth may be cast away!

  • Oh that this high calling may not be slighted or cast away!

  • I was helped to cast away some of the weight of worldly thoughts last evening, and fervently to desire after the Lord.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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