Not one of these bottles could be unsealed except in the presence of two jurors of the Admiralty sworn to secrecy, who signed, conjointly with the holder of the jetsam office, the official report of the opening.
If the bottle goes to the bottom, it is in the department of the lagan officer; if it floats, it is in the department of the flotsam officer; if it be thrown upon shore, it concerns the jetsam officer.
Later the Moors invaded Spain, and left as the jetsam of their retreat a wealth of matchless decorative art, amongst which our old patterns may also be traced.
Hence the primary importance of the study of trade routes, for these are also culture routes, and patterns and symbols are the flotsam and jetsam of the influences that flow along them.
Here, in the very heart of southern Pembrokeshire, stranded like a human jetsam upon one of the inmost recesses of Milford Haven, we find an isolated community, whose speech and physiognomy alike proclaim their Teutonic origin.
He found here and there some bits of boards, flotsam and jetsam of the stream, and on these, spread crosswise, he laid bits of brush, making a little mound midships of his craft.
Singularly straightforward in all his dealings, a little of the old West-country wrecking spirit yet survives in him, and he enjoys nothing better than smuggling jetsam past the coastguards.
When he is nowhere to be found, he is a as a rule down-shore carrying jetsam into caves.
The tower is dark, and the doors are wide, (Flotsam and jetsam cast up by the sea, The dead are at peace again.
Sadly she leans by her casement side (Flotsam and jetsam from over the sea, Can the dead arise again?
The moon shone in on the turret stair (Flotsam and jetsam from over the sea, The dead are bound with a chain.
The rowan tree grows by the tower foot, (Flotsam and jetsam from over the sea, Can the dead feel joy or pain?
Wild was the sound of the wind and the sleet, (Flotsam and jetsam from over the sea.
Oh Lady, strange is the silent guest-- (Flotsam and jetsam cast up by the sea, Can the dead feel sorrow or pain?
The ladye sits in the turret alone, (Flotsam and jetsamfrom over the sea, The dead--can they complain?
In these I hauled over the wretched jetsam of a thousand cheap apartments and came out dusty and contaminated but not discouraged.
They were gone at last and we stood helplessly among our belongings that lay like flotsam and jetsam tossed up on a forbidding shore.
Over the vague quarrels which drench the strands with blood, over the plunderers of shipwrecks, over the jetsam and the reefs, and the palaces and monuments built upon the sand, I see the high tide coming.
The apple trees in the orchards are shaken and scatter bird-like jetsam in space; and in that bright green paddock yonder the rows of out-hung linen dance in the sunshine.
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.
The shelving sandy beach is strewed with the jetsam of the storm.
These and other similar tales, the flotsam and jetsam of ocean myths, gave something of inspiration and suggestion to literature.
So great is the erosion that were not the lake of enormous depth, it would soon be filled with the jetsam and flotsam of the hills.
It is one oL the various pieces of jetsam and flotsam that have floated from the sea of those great events to the shores of government publications since.
Jetsam Street is flooded with golden sunshine as we pass through it, but the sunshine has not made the inhabitants light-hearted.
Returning through the Golden Gates into the sunshine, we make our way to Jetsam Street.
I do not wonder at the fight in Jetsam Street which fails to rouse the lookers-on from their midday lethargy, for I am an old traveller in this strange land.
He wants to die at home--at home in Jetsam Street!
Heaps of the jetsam of the battlefields are in the yards.
They grow from the caked black mud, from sunken equipment and horses and men and all the jetsam of war.
The house presented the same dingy, neglected appearance as before, the steps uncleaned and covered with pieces of paper and wisps of straw, the jetsam of the street.
But man is ever the jetsam of the wind of destiny.
Flotsam, jetsam and ligan belong to the sovereign in the absence only of the true owner.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jetsam" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
