What about this mere shattered bit of flotsam from the world welter?
So one had been took to jail and one to the hospital the minute the flotsam slowed up with 'em.
It was a sharply etched impression over the ranch, now shared by its owner, that this here invalid flotsam would take darned little nonsense from any one.
Flotsam and jetsam make another class of Beachcomber by stimulating the gaming instincts.
If two years voyaging over the stormy paths of war has left me with a new conception of the flotsam value of my life against the great currents of human destiny, it has robbed death of half its terrors.
Counsel for the plaintiff (I presume) threw up his brief, for we heard no more of "Mr Flotsam and Jetsam.
Famishing, shipwrecked or marooned, he fought with the big Pacific surf for rock-clinging mussels, and carried them up the sands to the dry flotsam of the spring tides.
The others were drawn under, and the general flotsam was lost to view, borne on by the swift current around the bend.
The fountain slobbering its stone basin Is louder than They-- Flotsam of the five oceans Here on this raft of the world.
Here we should expect to find (and we do find) the last relics of the Greek occupation of Baktria, and here are certainly remnants of a yet more ancient Persian stock, with all the flotsam and jetsam of High Asia intermingled.
They had a thoroughly interesting week, these sight-seers; but not half so interesting as he did, who watched them and chatted with them and spent hours interrogating the human flotsam and jetsam of this City of a myriad castes.
I copped it on the high seas--flotsam and jetsam,' says the 'roughneck.
Now, however, the town was lively, for this was the dry season, when the fever was at its lowest, and the resorts were filled with the flotsam and jetsam of a tropic world.
In limestone one finds both plant and animal fossils, very often mixed together as the flotsam on the shore is mixed.
When we examine sandstone rock, or the finer grained stones which are hardened mud, we find in them the remains of shells, sometimes of bones, and also of plant leaves and stems, which in their time had formed the flotsam of a shore.
One of the most noticeable characters of a shore is the line of flotsam that is left by the edge of the waves; here you may find all kinds of land plants mixed with the sea shells and general rubbish, plants that may have drifted far.
The flotsam and jetsam of defeat swirled round him as he rode.
Thus, while so many lesser minds were busy with flotsam and jetsam of the controversial storm, his own serener soul was already beyond the far horizon, voyaging toward the one sure haven for the Ship of State.
Every speck of flotsam is scanned in apprehension.
Some hours past, we saw small flotsam that may have come from the decks of a French mail steamer, torpedoed three days ago.
Moored on the offset of a shoal or sandbank (their position, indeed, a guide to the minelayer), their broad bows offer contact to all flotsam that comes down on swirl of the tide.
We throw sightly flotsam overboard and note the drift that takes the refuse astern.
The great pumps now pulsate at full speed, drawing water to their sluices in an eddying current that spins the flotsam and bares ledge after ledge of the solid dock masonry.
In the case of the settlers on Hue and Cry the sums were mere pittances; their improvements consisted of tottering shacks, erected from salvaged flotsam of the ocean and patched over and over with tarred paper.
A scuttle-butt was torn from its lashings and went by the board, and other flotsam followed it.
In an instant I was in my shoes again and out upon the road, a bit of flotsam in the wake of a great pageant.
By then the flotsam had already come to land wide about the islands and on both shores of the firth.
They fished the oars out of the flotsam in the cove.
Smyrna's village square was unsightly with a litter of evil-smelling firecracker remnants, with torn paper bags, broken canes, dented tin horns and all the usual flotsam marking the wake of a carnival crowd.
It is a strange thing to consider what unimportant flotsam sometimes floats visibly upon the stream of history, while the gravest events are sunk deep beneath its flood.
He remembered that his wife's relative, Pedro Correa, who had come back from Porto Santo while Columbus was living in Lisbon, had told him about some strange flotsam that came in upon the shores of the island.
The philosophic ideas of such seem gathered from the flotsam and jetsam of the later antique world; their stock was not of the best, and bore little interesting fruit for later times.
We shall suppose this flood to divide in rivers of Latin prose and verse; and we may follow them, and see where they overflow their channels, carrying antique flotsam into the ample marshes of vernacular poetry.
Appendentia artium are those [writings] which touch philosophy less nearly and are occupied with some subject apart from it; and yet sometimes offer flotsam and jetsam from the artes, or simply as narratives smooth the road to philosophy.
Vivier, disgorging from the flotsam of his pocket a lump of once-white sugar.
From time immemorial, it has been a favorite repository for all manner of illicit flotsam and jetsam human or otherwise.
The man had also become interested in the flotsamof the beach, and had stopped to pick up a dam-shell which he shied into the surf.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flotsam" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
