| 单词 | flotsam |
| 例句 | The survivors around me—people and animals who had been trapped within its planks—cheered weakly as they clung to their own pieces of flotsam and kicked toward the shore. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Maybe a toe here, a nostril there, or a mustache, floating like a little curl of seaweed among the other flotsam. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z In a little while the chaplain stepped back, and the beige crescent of human forms began to break up sluggishly, like flotsam. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Only rain, marauding waves of black ocean and the flotsam of tragedy. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z ‘You are welcome to it; it came from the flotsam of Isengard.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Each week a steady stream of former students returned to his class, the sad flotsam of men and women who had tasted the other side of graduation and found it wanting. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The rest of the house was flotsam that had come to him, floating in on the tide, as I had, sometimes into our own little cove, sometimes on Cuttyhunk, where no one else wanted it. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Mitochondria are minute, bean-shaped objects, hundreds of which bob about like so much flotsam in the warm, salty envelope of the cell. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It was a mystery why the skiff had washed up on our little island and not on Cuttyhunk where most treasure and flotsam came to rest. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Fire and water collided, superheated steam, and I shot upward from the heart of the volcano in a huge explosion, just one piece of flotsam thrown free by a million pounds of pressure. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z First the traffic struck me like a tidal wave and carried me along, a bit of shiny flotsam bounded in front by a gasoline truck half a block long. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The piers did not project, but against each lay a little accumulation of flotsam, from which driftweed and sticks continually broke away to be carried through the bridge. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The great river of a road grew clogged and choked with the flotsam of a hundred carts and pedestrians, dozens of wains and wagons and the occasional mounted man. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Gaea opened the earth, and I was consumed, exiled here in the belly of my father Tartarus, where all the useless flotsam collects—all the bits of creation he does not care for.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Crystals of green — buttons and beads and flotsam merging like grains of sand into a clump — dangled like dewdrops; stars sparkled darkly in silver and black. Artist Mandy Greer molds the fiber of life 2011-11-30T23:49:57Z It’s called the Internet, and the way so many people cling to fake news — treatments, vaccines, mortality rates — like flotsam from a shipwreck. Review | Hackers, fake news and worldwide panic: The plot of ‘The Paladin’ feels eerily real 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z Peil flicks the lads aside as if they were so much flotsam. Review: Dance in 'The Variety Show' is varied indeed 2011-04-22T22:21:03Z As it is, the evening devolves into an anarchic standup set, in which Jones – looking like "a shipwrecked Bee Gee" – uses Venn diagrams, online flotsam and interactive japes to recount a recent relationship breakup. Sanderson Jones ? review 2011-08-29T15:00:40Z Rourke describes its dark banks well: its trolley-littered bed, its murky depths, its surface covered in flotsam and streaks of oily pollution. Not the Booker prize: The Canal by Lee Rourke 2010-10-04T12:08:00Z The nonrepresentational imagery courses like the rivers that inspire her, with fragments of the actual world carried along as flotsam. Not all right angles in ‘Geometrix: Line, Form, Subversion’ 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z The skits, inhabited by the same six actors, are linked by odd imagistic flotsam: a sea snake, a dueling pistol, a woman’s hat. Review | You might think ‘panties’ in the title means the play’s funny. If only. 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z From age 17 to 23 he was on the seas, and he probably picked up from fellow sailors the practice of whittling flotsam into small-scale wood figurines. Gauguin: It’s Not Just Genius vs. Monster 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z Coming up with a grand unifying theory on what separates the great Stephen King adaptations from the flotsam and jetsam that have washed onto shore the past three-plus decades isn’t easy. The secrets to making great Stephen King movies 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z I built my collection inspired by these dream accessories, the flotsam of everyday drudgery transformed into mementoes of places we missed, vacations we vowed to take, women we thought we’d become. Thank you, Kate Spade, for making women feel “quick and curious and playful and strong” 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Yet the story Juniper tells that I found even more hypnotically disturbing was that of the discarded flotsam now bobbing in the oceans. What Has Nature Ever Done For Us? by Tony Juniper – review 2013-01-19T10:59:00Z It was literary flotsam, a poem I hadn’t heard of and couldn’t place in time or tradition. In Praise of Derek Walcott’s Epic of the Americas 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z Parsing catchphrases and other pop-culture flotsam, he has built a sturdy publishing career. Chuck Klosterman Rewinds to ‘The Nineties’ 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z All the videos must be downloaded, which makes sense, considering you probably wouldn’t have Internet access while seeking water in the Atacama Desert or bobbing on flotsam in the South Pacific. App review: Lost in the wild? Don’t eat a polar bear’s liver, and other tips. 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z His organization, the Ocean Cleanup, is devising a series of booms that would corral flotsam for extraction and eventual recycling, all the while allowing marine life to pass beneath undisturbed. Water World 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z Is Maya, like Ishmael, the lone survivor left clinging to the flotsam of the Pequod? Zero Dark Thirty: the US election vehicle that came off the rails 2013-01-18T19:31:01Z Instead, their voices poke into our consciousness in shards, like flotsam and jetsam carried by a rushing stream of consciousness. Review: ‘The Encounter’ Is a High-Tech Head Trip Through an Amazon Labyrinth 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z It also speaks to a uniquely human need to endow pretty much everything with human qualities — animals, iPads, flotsam. Review: Mummenschanz Offers Wonder, and a Grumpy Trash Bag 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z This process is apt considering The Waste Land includes allusions to show tunes, operas, folk ballads and ragtime songs among its linguistic flotsam and jetsam. I will show you Arcade Fire in a handful of dust: why pop music loves TS Eliot 2012-05-23T12:11:40Z At its closely packed tables, artists, musicians and movie stars rubbed shoulders with the neighborhood flotsam, and an all-night carnival atmosphere prevailed. | 'Florent: Queen of the Meat Market': Florent, the Restaurant and the Man, on Film 2011-05-19T22:40:42Z He needed furniture and, realizing the streets were littered with wood from the flood’s flotsam, he started building wooden signs with imagery screen-printed on top. A Fire Killed 32 at a New Orleans Gay Bar. This Artist Didn’t Forget. 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z It proves a particularly rich subject thanks to the vast array of flotsam and jetsam in the current celebrity world, not to mention all the magazines and websites devoted to them. These Very Important People: who do they think they are? 2012-05-22T19:00:00Z Waves, wind and flotsam drift in with the breeze and tide, somehow drawn to the island’s singular existence. Everything Is Different on an Island 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z Flimsy shacks, propped one against another, await the next great tidal wave, which will return them to the flotsam and jetsam of which they are made. The Pearl Fishers, Le Nozze de Figaro 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z In Williams’s illustration, Stuart’s clothespin-and-cigarette-box bed is irresistibly charming but rumpled and untidy, surrounded by the playful flotsam of a rambunctious kid’s bedroom. Garth Williams, Illustrator of American Childhood 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z At other times, chaos reigns, the images disintegrating into the flotsam and jetsam of imagined disasters. 'Image Search' keys in on a chaotic landscape of imagery 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z There is an estimated 100m tonnes of plastic flotsam in the Pacific Gyre, where ocean currents cause it to accumulate. Recycled island: plastic fantastic? 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z Nothing more than institutional flotsam and jetsam, perhaps, and in breach of data protection laws too. Ruskin archive: dust-up 2012-10-28T23:24:13Z The beach was strewn with flotsam, and as we walked along it you could see several more monoliths, sad and half-built, erupting out of the surrounding fields. Ruins, casinos and abandoned construction mark Cyprus 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z On the other hand, in 1902 The New York Tribune described some of its clients as “the flotsam and jetsam of street boys, mostly confirmed truants at war with the police.” Streetscapes: East Side House Settlements: A Sight to See When Traffic Stalls 2012-11-11T05:27:15Z Baghramian, who was born in Iran, will present abstract, polychrome sculptures, in the niches, that “seem to have washed up like flotsam and jetsam,” the museum said. Met Museum Commissions Bring Contemporary Art Front and Center 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z Mendelsohn is revelatory as Danny, a leathered piece of flotsam who plays as half criminal menace, half dejected boy. Review: On Netflix's Bloodline, a Family That Preys Together 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z In an article about two young design practices, there's a picture of a box containing a hammer, some leather-working tools and other bits and bobs of workshop flotsam. The art of craft: the rise of the designer-maker 2011-08-01T15:08:33Z Harmless enough, the kind of provincial fare that wouldn't get much attention amid better fringe flotsam were it not for Titmuss's involvement. En Route; Fair Trade; Shakespeare: The Man from Stratford; Up 'N' Under; Odyssey; Poland 3 Iran 2; Beautiful Burnout 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z Jamison’s resistance to the torrent of digital flotsam is probably futile. In the galleries: Putting a fine point on colored pencil drawings 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z Never mind “Fifty Shades of Grey”; check out the 50 shades of green, or the blossoms bursting through the flotsam and jetsam in those rowdy zones where rust, rubber, bramble and brier rumble and twine. Still Life: Still Life: Gallery of the Meadowlands 2012-07-10T16:24:06Z Ballast or flotsam? he asks himself, about all this weight of memory, hidden away. Coming of Age Amid the Troubles 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z TV fanatics who, after a day mired in social media viral videos and flotsam that calls itself entertainment, opt for shows with character. TV manifesto: Resisting ‘Game of Thrones,’ and other vows 2014-05-07T18:37:13Z The dystopian Mad Max universe, with its visions of a junkyard future comprised of the flotsam and jetsam of human civilisation, is full of recycled commodities: what the director calls “found objects repurposed”. Mad Max: Fury Road in black and white: a fascinating re-evaluation of a groundbreaking film | Luke Buckmaster 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z "This is the flotsam and jetsam of a writer's life - it's his life and his work," Phillips said. Items from Hemingway's Cuba home go to JFK Library 2013-05-06T16:45:09Z The use of materials that ordinarily would be thrown away resonates with Mr. Lockett’s concerns for humans and animals who all too often end up as flotsam and jetsam in the wake of history. In Sheet Metal and Scraps, Ronald Lockett Evokes Struggle and Survival 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z One suspects that if they hadn’t cobbled together their restaurant from the storm’s flotsam, the couple would have figured out another business venture. | The Crowds Swell on Mexico’s Pacific Coast 2013-12-04T16:08:38Z And then: There is Ken, crying in the bathroom, clutching the faucet of a sink as if it were flotsam in a stormy ocean. Review: ‘Man From Nebraska’ Delivers a Midlife Crisis of Faith 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z Trash is a real concern, too, and I cringed at the flotsam of plastic bags, cups and even furniture that bobbed in the channel. Explorer: At the End of Eden, Rustic Tranquillity 2013-09-12T16:37:46Z He was fond of what he called mudlarking, collecting flotsam and junk from the banks of the Thames to incorporate into his pieces. His Name Was Blame: A Legend of London Fashion Remembered 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z Whose day was harder, whose parenting technique was better, who was responsible for cleaning the flotsam at the bottom of the garbage can — all of these conflicts could be branded or rebranded to his advantage. Honey, I Swept the Floor! 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z Every few hours, a new piece of conservative flotsam washes up and demands to be taken seriously. Jonah Goldberg’s sexual tumult: The right doesn’t get how birth control works 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Shots of iconic monuments of progress reduced to beach flotsam are utter clichés these days. Post-apocalypse cinema: abandoned Earths and disturbing doppelgangers 2013-06-12T13:17:52Z The flotsam of Inherent Vice have all lost their bearings, come unstuck. Inherent Vice review: a free range freak-out for California dreamers 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z Could I clear away all the flotsam in my heart – the fetishes for big noses and curly hair that I’ve had since high school, or my habit of falling for cocky artists and writers? Sex, scents and pheromones 2012-05-19T19:01:00Z Carefully balancing knees, elbows, hands and shoulders on the cartons, he moves them forward one by one to plot his own slow, haphazard pathway around the flotsam. Siobhan Davies and Matthias?Sperling 2011-03-06T17:07:06Z A bit of cultural flotsam from the last 25 years would suddenly drift back up to the top of our collective consciousness and spread wildly, demanding renewed attention in the context of the present. Let’s Look Back on 2021, When We Couldn’t Stop Looking Back 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Later, after they became friends, Sooley helped Jarman gather flotsam for the garden on the beach, and drove the filmmaker to and from hospital many times. Planted in Sickness, Derek Jarman’s Garden Still Gives Joy 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z He doesn't need a designer to give him the look of a piece of street-corner flotsam drifting in from the Great Depression. Tom Waits: 'I'm a night-owl reporter' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-08-07T16:41:06Z We city dwellers, for all that we might cherish the sound of police sirens and hard-braking buses, are just so much flotsam and jetsam. We long for a sense of belonging that village life offers 2013-03-31T00:06:27Z After serving with the Navy in the Pacific war, Freddie, a native of Lynn, Mass., washes up in California like a bit of human flotsam. Review: ‘The Master,’ From Paul Thomas Anderson 2012-09-13T15:23:48Z It does seem not much more than a wisp, a dream of an island, a piece of flotsam in the vastness of the Atlantic. Postcard from the future: Tiree, Scotland, my ‘dream of an island’ 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z At the Dog Star Orchestra festival, in Los Angeles, I caught a live performance of selections from Michael Pisaro’s “Tombstones,” which suggests an alien intelligence piecing together pop-culture flotsam that has traversed interstellar space. Notable Performances and Recordings of 2016 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Like many people her age, Wolf has a keen ability to slurp up the often doofy flotsam of the recent past and make it seem far cooler than it was in the first place. Remi Wolf Turns Bedroom Pop Into Hypercolored Explosions 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Terrified and traumatized children were simply an unfortunate byproduct, the flotsam of border enforcement. A liberal parenting paradox: Meticulously raising our kids while migrant families are torn apart 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z The dancers can seem less like islands than like flotsam in tidal currents, floating together. Dance Review: Vanessa Anspaugh’s ‘we were an island’ at Danspace Project 2014-02-23T21:49:16Z Even though Polk was severely injured, Faulkingham said, he was safe and felt God was watching as flotsam and jetsam from his boat was pushed ashore. Maine’s top elected Republican, a lobsterman, survives boat capsize from giant wave ahead of Lee 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z Nearly a year and a half after the full-scale Russian invasion, the war remains a supply line of sorts for Reva, a never-ending tide tossing up new flotsam and jetsam. This Ukrainian was famed for playful sculptures. Now his art melds war debris and rage 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z Bent fences and waterlogged front lawns were the norm, with small bridges clogged with flotsam and closed because of the destabilizing impact of so much charging water. ‘Like something out of a horror movie’: New York flooding causes millions of dollars’ worth of damage. 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z The composition of the feed is another sore point, especially for Twitter users repelled by its algorithmic “For You” tab full of clickbait and other viral flotsam. Threads, Meta's Twitter clone, just launched — and people are already complaining about it 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z They have been seen coming to the surface to nibble a lobster buoy or check out a bird or some other piece of flotsam, she said. ‘Smartphones’ for sharks: Scientists upgrade sensors to keep track of Cape Cod’s white sharks 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z But when Mr. Tunnell went to lift it up, the leg turned out to be a prosthetic, one of the many items of flotsam and jetsam that come ashore along the Texas coastline each year. An Auction of Prosthetics, Mermaids and Creepy Dolls to Benefit Sea Turtles 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z With each advance in our knowledge, our entire existence retreats from any possible pinnacle, seemingly reduced to flotsam adrift at the universe’s margins. How Far Should We Take Our Cosmic Humility? 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z They will tell you he was the flotsam and jetsam of a sport which was becoming unmoored from reality. Lust, luck and a life less ordinary – the temptation of Gigi Lentini 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z Pushing racist flotsam and jetsam aside, Bailey has already received a seal of approval from Jodi Benson, who voiced the rebellious sea princess in the original musical. Josh Gad wades into 'pathetic' racist swells over Halle Bailey as 'Little Mermaid' 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Its most haunting components are six unnervingly lifelike human figures dressed in office attire, balled up inside garbage bags like corporate flotsam. An Artist for the End of the World 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z We now know that the U.S.-Canada North American Aerospace Defense Command had blunted its radars to prevent such aerial flotsam from cluttering its screens, according to the White House. UFO's Look A Lot More Like Spying Than Extraterrestrials 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z He argues that some people "not from the Labour tradition" are trying to become candidates, and that too much "flotsam and jetsam" got into parliament under Jeremy Corbyn. Labour left-wingers angry about being blocked as MP candidates 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z At first light, at least four bodies were seen bobbing under the cliffs among the flotsam from the shipwreck. Survivors tell grim tale of southern Greek migrant shipwreck 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Belongings were scattered on the white marble steps of the Capitol, flotsam left behind in chaos. Sept. 11, 2001: I was 16 and a Senate page when the Pentagon was hit 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z They are not “shackled to” social media; they cling to those platforms as shipwrecked sailors cling to flotsam. Opinion | Blaming social media for academia’s ruin misses a larger, darker truth 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z So, much of the industry’s flotsam and jetsam washes up in warehouses like this one, located off Interstate 81, a few exits from the President Biden Expressway in Scranton, the president’s hometown. Retail’s ‘Dark Side’: As Inventory Piles Up, Liquidation Warehouses Are Busy 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z His early work, “based on the castoff and the crude, on the flotsam and jetsam of modern life — was a hit from the beginning with his contemporaries,” Kennedy reported in the Times. Claes Oldenburg, a whimsical father of pop art, dies at 93 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z Our posts and other digital flotsam are also fodder for training valuable computer systems, including the GPT-3 technology that “learns” to write like humans by ingesting billions of our words online. The Work of Online Volunteers 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z Beyond the vacuum’s reach, half a dozen blackbirds picked through the flotsam, while outside the boom, plastic bottles bobbed downstream. Saving a Texan Bayou, ‘16 Bottles’ at a Time 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z "They're looking for flotsam and jetsam, they're looking for coins. Not many of them are looking for bits of Mars like I am." Searching for life on Mars from a Scottish island 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z Her “precarios” — little pieces of frayed rope, netting, twigs, flotsam and flayed fabric suspended by strings from the ceiling — are a hair’s breadth away from being nothing. Perspective | A great Venice Biennale unfolds, against all the odds 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Eventually, there will be sufficient amounts of human-made flotsam afloat around or near the moon for two objects to conceivably crash into each other there. Looming Rocket Impact Forecasts Trouble for Future Lunar Exploration 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z The flotsam and jetsam of our digital queries and transactions, the flurry of electrons flitting about, warm the medium of air. The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z “It was a slow-moving snowball that made its way across Canada, and it picked up all sorts of other flotsam and jetsam and all sorts of other grievances.” Canada Toughens Stance on Protests, Promising ‘Robust’ Police Response 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z But at least the increasingly polluted region in low Earth orbit, where thousands of bits of debris, spent rocket stages and dead satellites whiz uncontrollably, like so much flotsam. The Pentagon is looking for garbage collectors in space 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z And then it was put up for auction like a piece of celebrity flotsam. Perspective | Melania Trump is selling fashion cheap 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z Loosed from pockets or heaped as infill, these are the flotsam of centuries lived on London’s streets. Cities are not only tackling COVID, but its pollution, too 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z Down the concrete artery the team members drove that Wednesday morning, crossing the foul rivulet that ran down the channel, sidestepping the flotsam of broken bottles, cigarette butts and other litter when they stepped out. COVID-19 got this medical team into homeless camps. What about after the pandemic? 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z At the end of the passage, seawater pooled, which meant wading through a mucky pond teeming with driftwood and mystery flotsam. As a child, he snuck onto a secret Malibu beach. 50 years later, the fence finally came down 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z In the dark, with a heavy, sloshing bucket in each hand, he trudged across the flotsam of cow country — barbed wire, crumpled fences, rodent burrows — and under the white smear of the Milky Way. Saved by a Bucket, but Can the Owens Pupfish Survive? 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z Most scientists think the cigar-shaped visitor, less than a kilometer long, was a comet or asteroid from a nearby star or some other cosmic flotsam. Project launched to look for extraterrestrial visitors to our solar system 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z This is the political flotsam in which our virtual book event was snagged. Opinion | Texas Republicans rush to guard the Alamo from the facts 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z With a friend at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, he calculated how far the flotsam would travel. 3,000 shipping containers fell into the Pacific Ocean last winter 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z As Sri Lankan sailors scrape the debris from beaches and the ship smolders, scientists are trying to determine how far the flotsam will travel and what the damage will be. A burning ship covered beautiful beaches in plastic ‘snow.’ Now Sri Lanka faces an environmental disaster. 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z McLeod kept data on when and where the shoes appeared, laying the foundation for noted flotsam expert Curtis Ebbesmeyer’s groundbreaking research on massive ocean currents called gyres. Art installation features 200 sculptural ‘sneakers’ fashioned from high-end trash 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z And this is before the state’s traditional rainy season, which washes urban flotsam and jetsam into the sea. A pandemic side effect: Used masks polluting California coastal waters 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z Soon, the whole flock was airborne, circling out to the northeast, then back in, out again, back, riding the thermals with minimal wing beats, like flotsam going around in a great river eddy. Opinion | The Virus, the Bats and Us 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z Another is haunted by the memory of clinging to a piece of flotsam while others around him flailed and sank into the black ocean. A group of villagers, a migrant boat and a deadly end in Senegal 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z It is trying to cobble together a semblance of its normal self out of flotsam and jetsam: clearing out the pantry, borrowing from the neighbors, whipping up leftovers into something hopefully delicious. After 2020, TV will try to return to 'normal.' We shouldn't let it 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z Meteorites are the flotsam and jetsam resulting from the solar system's messy birth. We may have found life on Mars 24 years ago 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z Roberts understood less is more, that drama is enhanced by focusing on the players, not the flotsam of golf officialdom. Clifford Roberts: The man who made the Masters - Golf Digest 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Mr Taverner, 44, regularly scans the shoreline for flotsam and jetsam to create pieces of art. Message in a bottle mystery solved by Facebook 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z “We face the Atlantic, so we get a lot of American and Irish flotsam,” Webb said in a telephone interview. Lobster trap tag from US vessel found on English beach 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Then, early last year, the spacecraft streaked by Arrokoth, a bit of flotsam drifting through the Kuiper Belt—the diffuse ring of primitive icy bodies beyond Neptune, of which Pluto is the largest member. New Horizons May Have Solved Planet Formation Cold Case 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z So it's OK to be frustrated that silly culture-war flotsam seems to clog up political discourse. Why do minor culture-war issues dominate election coverage, while we ignore the serious stuff? 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z The Texans double-teamed Julian Edelman and put a cornerback on running back James White, and the remaining flotsam and jetsam couldn’t provide any separation. Analysis | What to know from NFL Week 13: The Ravens are closers, the Patriots are lacking, and the Browns are cooked 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Scientists studying the swarms of dwarf planets and other icy flotsam beyond Pluto were perhaps the only participants at the workshop who were agnostic about the probe’s trajectory. Proposed Interstellar Mission Reaches for the Stars, One Generation at a Time 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z Some of the apparent flotsam was given to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health for further investigation. Lifeguards find medical supplies, including small needles, along Venice Beach shore 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z It’s time for a new high tide to scour the beach, removing the accumulated flotsam and jetsam of ignorance. Lessons on Nature and Politics at the California Seaside 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Dusty teapots are set atop a transom, and multiple shelves overflow with a flotsam and jetsam of board games, cards, puzzles and crayons. Craving comfort and connection? Head to Ravenna’s Bryant Corner Cafe & Bakery 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z Clinging to flotsam in the cold North Atlantic water, Breeze was soon aware of the enemy vessel that sank his ship. Doomed WWII warship reveals its secrets: How 'the lucky 13' survived the sinking of the USS Eagle 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Its oceans and islands are littered with resources, but many of these are scrap or flotsam. How games like Minecraft and No Man’s Sky help players connect to their worlds 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z As we drive around the city, these objects wash up on the shores of our consciousness like strange flotsam, beautiful for the way they play against the drab or dingy or stereotypically hip. For the doctor behind Happy Foot Sad Foot sign, a strange kind of fame comes to an end 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z The joke was immediately apparent as I looked for an open space to put my foot down and climb into the cab filled with chains, tools and other flotsam of the farm life. Farmer seeks community help to feed his cows 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z When I visit his house just up the road, he invites me to peer through a telescope at a large nest made of bark and flotsam, and so I do. Perspective | I never meant to be a birder. But the birds didn’t give me any choice. 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z And maybe they unlocked the elemental knowledge hidden within me, buried deep under the digital flotsam that clouds my attention. ‘Brick’ is a visual ode to the humble red block, perhaps humanity’s best idea 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z The boom and the skirt would together create an artificial coastline that would accumulate flotsam riding the gyre’s currents, eventually forming a sort of shoreline of concentrated trash. A Grand Plan to Clean the Great Pacific Garbage Patch 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z In 2006, two men looking for flotsam on North Sentinel ran aground on the sand, and were hacked apart with axes. Sentinel Island: tribe who killed American are 'peace-loving', say anthropologists 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z He’s a troubled man who has waded neck-deep into the flotsam of fame. Tiger Woods may not be a hero for black people but he is a beacon for the aging 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Sometimes in display cases, but more often in piles, were the castoffs and flotsam of great armies. A Marine’s mysterious death in World War I’s final days still haunts his family 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Embedded within them are bits of barbed wire, driftwood, plastic bottles and other crumpled flotsam that Nord gathered washed up along the Southern California shoreline — perhaps at Silicon Beach, home to L.A.’s tech industry. Review: Danial Nord's desiccated humanoids are grim meditations on our digitally tethered experience - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Alexander Dodge’s set, a jaunty playground of flotsam and jetsam, is strewn with cinema seats in a production that revels in the open theatricality of the play. 'The Tempest' at the Old Globe: Kate Burton casts a benevolent spell as Prospera 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z Some Australians feared the flotsam may also pose a hazard to humpback whales north along the coast. Cargo ship drops containers off Australia, nappies wash up on beaches 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z People said he had a penchant for picking things up off the street — cigarette lighters, empty bottles and other curbside flotsam — and playing with them like toys. Police Fatally Shoot a Brooklyn Man After Falsely Believing He Had a Gun 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z Senate campaign in Colorado, but simply as further female flotsam in the wake of the Kennedy men. Opinion | The Kennedy with the biggest impact might not be Jack, Bobby or Ted 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z Out there twirl frozen bits of flotsam left over from our solar system’s earliest moments. Looking for Planet Nine, Astronomers Gaze into the Abyss 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z The plunge into Earth's atmosphere of derelict satellites, rocket stages and other space flotsam is a common occurrence. How Much Air Pollution Comes from Rockets? 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z Or was he simply flotsam, a man whose life, The New York Times wrote in 1970, “stands as a monument to parental neglect and the failure of the public correctional system”? Charles Manson Dies at 83; Wild-Eyed Leader of a Murderous Crew 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z I liked that the phone arrived with only a small number of essential apps, rather than the sea of flotsam that typically ships with Samsung phones. Google’s Pixel 2 Smartphone Is a Powerful Extravagance 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z What four weeks ago were cherished possessions now languished as flotsam, junk chucked indiscriminately a few yards outside front doors. Houston after Harvey: city faces huge hurdle to recovery 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z The storm peeled open apartment doors, windows and whole walls, washing the contents through the surrounding fence where they became mired like flotsam on the beach, with the same briny stench. As Houston floodwaters recede, returning residents make some grim discoveries 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z The water swirled with flotsam and rose higher. Battered Macau Struggles to Come to Terms With Typhoon Hato 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z But there is none of the designer’s flotsam: papers, books, sketches. Behind the Scenes at Gucci’s New Hub 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Shipping is also relatively infrequent there and, the authors write, there is no reason to think that flotsam or jetsam in the Arctic would be so much higher than in other parts of the world. Unwelcome find: Plastic debris making a path to Arctic 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z The basic or guaranteed income is a curious piece of intellectual flotsam that has washed ashore several times in the past half-millennium, often during periods of great economic upheaval. The Future of Not Working 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Historical figures aren’t human flotsam, swirling into public awareness at random intervals. The Civil-Rights Luminary You’ve Never Heard Of 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z That was followed by the Facebook stream, with its journalistic jetsam and fake flotsam.... Fake News and the Digital Duopoly 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z Plots, especially the solution-hungry plots of detective stories, give meaning to the flotsam and jetsam of lived experience. Paul Auster’s Novel of Chance 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z Almost every global power of the recent past continues to have its own collection of wanted and unwanted outcrops, territories and coastal stations, the flotsam and jetsam of imperialism. The world’s powers have to resolve their remnants of empire | Martin Kettle 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z With so much flotsam and debris lying along the river bank, another jam is almost guaranteed to form after the next high-water event. Lagging funds prevents clearance of logjam caused by tornado 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Leaving locks and other flotsam on a bridge should not be one of them, she said. Dear John: Brooklyn Bridge Discourages Token of Love, With a Smile 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z And it is part of a long global quest by many that has left money and dashed aspirations scattered like flotsam on the beach. Surf’s Up, and the Ocean Is Nowhere in Sight 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z She writes candidly, for example, that she, her sister and their stepsiblings “weren’t the products of our parents’ happy marriages: we were the flotsam of their divorces”. Ann Patchett: ‘If writers are to survive we must take responsibility for ourselves and our industry’ 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z Hanjin’s demise just adds to the flotsam and jetsam already washing up on the shores of the shipping industry. Hanjin’s Demise: Why Global Shipping Glut Isn’t Going Away 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z Such gestures are a departure from Cage, who generally allowed tonal materials only as meaningless flotsam and jetsam, and from his ally Morton Feldman, who treated them as melancholy relics. The Composers of Quiet 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Officials have scrambled to make that part of the bay as clean as possible by August, to avoid the public-relations nightmare of sick athletes or sailors colliding with flotsam in the middle of competition. Who Is Polluting Rio’s Bay? 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Warm ocean waters suddenly teem with trillions of eggs and sperm that swirl in the currents and merge to form new life, a profligate frenzy that can leave the ocean’s surface awash in pink flotsam. For Coral, Mass Spawns Are the Way to Go 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z In Commonwealth, that flotsam is the “fierce little tribe” of the six Cousins and Keating children, each of whom corresponds to her own stepsiblings. Ann Patchett: ‘If writers are to survive we must take responsibility for ourselves and our industry’ 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z But this meeting is also likely to stop the flotsam and jetsam of the personnel shuffles we've seen during the last six years, with dismissed and disappeared officials and executions, both rumoured and real. North Korea Congress: Kim Jong-un and the Workers Party - BBC News 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z Australian experts are also checking two other pieces of flotsam found on beaches. Stencilling gives clue to MH370 - BBC News 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z Any revival involves sorting through the flotsam and jetsam of a decade to find the pieces that still look fresh today. The 90s are back: how to get the look right 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z The revival of ”Hello” is a curiosity — a piece of pop flotsam borne back into the mainstream by the Internet’s swirling surf. 25 Songs That Tell Us Where Music Is Going 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z We don't talk about it, but it matters more than most of the froth and flotsam about this debate. German power is the real key to Europe - BBC News 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Instead, what trails behind the bill is a flotsam of negative perceptions that involve special interest groups flexing political muscle to get what they want. Editorials from around Oregon 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z Related: MH370 search: 'rogue pilot' theory still on Australian investigators' radar Two other pieces of flotsam, found on Réunion and Mozambique, are suspected to come from the plane, but are yet to be positively identified. MH370: head of search says 'very likely' plane will be found by July 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z My skepticism washed away like flotsam being lifted from a quiet beach by a rising tide. Kanye West's 'Waves' is even more beautiful when you play it backwards 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z Often the devices consist of little more than plastic and bamboo flotsam strung together with old nets. Palau vs. the Poachers 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z The black countertops were covered with flotsam—pliers, tubes, clamps, an aquarium filled with light corn syrup. A Microscope to Save the World 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z Torn-up dock boards, thousands of plastic bottles and assorted flotsam tarnished part of the Fort McHenry Marsh, created 30 years ago to compensate for wetlands destroyed by the construction of the Fort McHenry Tunnel. Rising sea levels pose long-term threat to Fort McHenry, report says 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z Many of the items later wash ashore as flotsam. Promoting Environmental Awareness Among Practicing Hindus 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Accordingly, he bestows a weird humanity on the flotsam and jetsam of the secret state. The British spy: how our national obsession led to Bond and Smiley 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z But frankly, the right to be unconventional is just as important as the right to get distracted by life’s flotsam and jetsam. Style lessons from Donna Karan: seize power, work topless and forget convention 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z There will be power lines strung hither and yon, with all the flotsam and jetsam of what went on in Fallujah.” A grim log from the Iraq war goes to a future wing of the Marine museum 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z It is also a receptacle for tons of flotsam and discards at the mouth of Malibu Creek, which drains a 150-square-mile watershed in the Santa Monica Mountains and the San Fernando Valley. Beach cleanup nets 21,300 pounds of trash, and wallet with $100 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z Often, when the refugees catch sight of it, they will burst their boat using spikes fashioned from pieces of flotsam. An Island of Refugees 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z The discovery prompted members of the French military and local beachcombers to scour the island’s shores for other flotsam that might have come from the plane. Réunion, Once a Surfer’s Paradise, Finds Only Sharks in Its Waters 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z Experts are due to examine the flotsam at a laboratory in Toulouse, with conclusions expected in the next day or so. MH370: Are We Even Looking in the Right Place? 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z These are commonly found on flotsam in the Indian Ocean, he told the BBC, and only on objects floating on the surface. MH370 search: Could debris be from missing plane? - BBC News 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z But this wasn't the usual flotsam and jetsam that washes up on most beaches. A Whale of a Tale: Those Cetacean Waste Products Are More Valuable Than You Think 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z Ashbery is nearly eighty-eight; more than ever, his style is a net for the weirdest linguistic flotsam. John Ashbery’s Feat of Style 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z In a new video, the group puts its unique set of musical skills to work and played the Game of Thrones theme song on a collection of pipes, tubes, jars and other well-tuned flotsam. The Blue Man Group Covered the 'Game of Thrones' Theme Song 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z In addition, staff will be employed to keep flotsam and jetsam away from the boats. Water won't be clean, but sailing will go ahead: Mayor 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z But the sheer mass of flotsam and refuse is another complicating factor. This Is Why It's So Hard to Find AirAsia QZ 8510 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z Paging through a copy of the State Constitution, he said the atheist ban was only part of the “flotsam and jetsam” that needed to be wiped from the document. In Seven States, Atheists Push to End Largely Forgotten Ban 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z Honestly though, the 2014-15 Celtics are looking less like a basketball team and more of a loose assemblage of complimentary pieces, likely trade bait and flotsam. LeBron is back in Cleveland – and he can propel the Cavs to glory in the East 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z This hardy constitution allowed the lizards to creep across the islands of the Caribbean on accidental rafts of logs and flotsam. Lizard Stowaways Revise Principle of Ecology 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z Flotillas of flotsam are formed by currents that gather the garbage in large floating patches. Sea Garbage Shows Ocean Boundaries 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z An unwanted word about unwanted stuff, and it can’t even stand on its own two feet without flotsam. Spelling out the ABC’s of troublesome words That is, there is too much financial flotsam to keep track of. 10 Ways To Declutter Your Finances 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Federal researchers say this year’s soggy spring probably drove a noticeable uptick in flotsam along the West Coast, including the northern tip of California. Marine debris season ends as bikini season begins 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z So part of it is almost allowing themselves to become flotsam and jetsam on the seas of a sort of fevered right-wing Fox corporatism. Ralph Nader: “The left is seized by fear and the right is driven by brass” 2014-05-02T11:44:00Z “It is not known how much flotsam, such as from fishing activities, is ordinarily there,” the Maritime Safety Authority said in a statement. Clock Ticks as Search for Missing Plane Intensifies in New Zone 2014-03-30T06:42:48Z “It is not known how much flotsam, such as from fishing activities, is ordinarily there,” the authority said in its statement Saturday morning. Hunt for Missing Plane Resumes as Search Area Narrows 2014-03-29T05:44:21Z Pinger Locator, which will be used to track down the black box flight recorder — assuming flotsam is positively identified. Bad Weather Ends Missing Jet Search, But a Thai Satellite Spots 200 Objects 2014-03-27T09:55:41Z “Any search and rescue attempt will be hampered by untold quantities of debris,” an expert in flotsam at the Algalita Marine Research Institute in Long Beach, Calif., told the New York Times. Family Member Files Law Suit Over Missing Jet As Frustrating Search Continues 2014-03-26T10:04:07Z Satellite images of suspicious flotsam emerged from U.S., In Beijing, Missing Jet Familes Vent Their Grief Outside the Malaysian Embassy 2014-03-25T10:06:43Z Apparently, poor conditions meant photographs of the “suspicious” flotsam were not possible. Chinese Plane Spots ‘White Objects,’ Possibly from Missing Jet 2014-03-24T09:28:25Z He said it was also possible the suspected flotsam was on the ocean bed, which is between three and five kilometers deep in that part of the ocean. China Satellite Spots Object in Jet Search 2014-03-23T04:14:26Z The southern Indian Ocean does not usually harbor large amounts of flotsam and jetsam, such as shipping containers from merchant vessels, he said. Australians Searching for Jet Debris Will Use Human Spotters, Not Radar 2014-03-21T09:26:54Z "They are prone to hypothermia and are vulnerable to getting caught in fishing nets and other marine flotsam and jetsam." Washed-up baby turtle 'fortunate' 2014-02-19T21:45:21Z Eventually all that edible flotsam rolls into a big briny bolus that the shark swallows with a kind of shudder. How to Love a Whale Shark 2013-08-14T12:45:12.043Z The secret hidden within the wall was buried deeper and deeper by the flotsam. Answer to a 1985 Disappearance Is Found Behind a False Wall 2013-07-02T19:21:20Z You can't take a Midol for menstrual pain in high school, but you can vacuum out the flotsam and come back to in time for algebra. Joe Klein: Stop the Civil Liberties Freakout 2013-06-10T21:35:29Z The flotsam and jetsam from capsized lives blanketed the floors — old winter coats and pants, soiled grocery store bags, a crusted gallon jug of Open Pit barbecue sauce. How Chicago’s Housing Crisis Ignited a New Form of Activism 2013-05-29T11:00:52Z Thankfully, no one did, just some menus and other street flotsam. City Room: Small, Cute Sinkhole Swallows Menu and Soda Bottle 2013-05-04T01:01:41Z The pavement is crowded with misfits and failures, the flotsam and jetsam of a dying movie town; apparently there will be four times as many pedestrians as in the last title. GTA 5 preview – to live and die in Los Santos 2013-05-02T15:18:00Z The flotsam constitutes floating islands of species — some of which could potentially be invasive. Tsunami triggers invasion concerns 2013-03-06T18:20:22.950Z No man - including the father - is supposed to care about a baby in utero - its not his bit of flotsam, its hers. Joe Klein: Stop the Civil Liberties Freakout 2013-06-10T21:35:29Z Giant vibrating screens shook the sand, extracting all manner of flotsam, which was then dumped unceremoniously from one conveyor belt, while clean, or relatively clean, sand fell to the ground from another belt. After Hurricane Sandy, Cleaning Up Sand and Returning It to Beaches 2013-01-10T18:25:10Z Many barrier-island voters forced from their homes seemed to clutch at the chance to vote as if it were a memento salvaged from the flotsam of their pre-storm lives. After Hurricane Sandy, Efforts to Help the Displaced Vote 2012-11-06T02:05:29Z The drifting space flotsam includes the remains of a Russian Cosmos satellite and a leftover chunk of an old Indian rocket. NASA Tracking Space Junk Near International Space Station 2012-09-27T15:15:06.027Z Many of these sequences consist of pseudogenes and transposons and are defective and dysfunctional genes from viruses and other genetic flotsam, inserted into our genome through our long, imperfect and promiscuous genetic history. Three reasons why junk DNA makes evolutionary sense 2012-09-13T22:45:03.353Z Parental notification for minors is an infringement on the woman's "right to choose" - actually, the child's "right" to dispose of her flotsam. Joe Klein: Stop the Civil Liberties Freakout 2013-06-10T21:35:29Z En route is an armada of flotsam, from rooftop shingles to capsized fishing boats, spread across an area of ocean three times larger than the contiguous United States. Green Blog: Tsunami Debris Strains Budgets and Patience 2012-08-16T17:12:03Z When we started out, we picked up all sorts of flotsam and jetsam. Nigel Farage: I was never scared of being out on a limb 2012-07-21T21:06:01Z “What a shame I didn’t bring my costume,” she remarked conversationally, looking at the pool, which Nigel was supposed to skim of its flotsam of twigs and leaves and dead insects every day, but hadn’t. Tessa Hadley: “An Abduction.” 2012-07-02T04:00:00Z It represents, he said, “the desire to absent yourself from the flotsam and jetsam of existence.” | Westchester: In ‘Beyond Rodin,’ at the Rye Arts Center, the Human Form Unleashed 2012-06-02T04:33:44Z Heaven forbid a woman can't choose at 8 months and two weeks not to have that bit of flotsam in her uterus. Joe Klein: Stop the Civil Liberties Freakout 2013-06-10T21:35:29Z His childhood memories are of swims in the Thames so polluted "we all had boils, ear aches," and of recovering cans of fruit discarded by cargo ships in the flotsam and jetsam of the river. Column: Damn the money, Olympics renew east London 2012-05-28T17:26:09Z I give the sources whenever I can of my information; impossible, however, is it to credit the authorship of all the flotsam and jetsam. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Taking pictures of flotsam; are they hiring in your area? Time to Can the Round Numbers 2012-05-16T18:17:38.230Z They recovered bits and pieces of helicopter and personal flotsam. Lens Blog: Richard Pyle, Former AP Bureau Chief, Remembers Horst Faas 2012-05-12T14:00:00Z The woman's "right to dispose" doesn't stop when her child, whoops, flotsam, is external rather than internal. Joe Klein: Stop the Civil Liberties Freakout 2013-06-10T21:35:29Z The humorous and the grotesque would abound in it, and tragedy and comedy would follow each other in rapid succession as the experiences of these flotsam and jetsam of human society were recorded in it. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z 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. The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce 2012-04-07T02:00:31.747Z Even here, however, was no lack of revellers afoot for the evening—stray flotsam of the downtown crowds, or members of neighbourhood gatherings on their way to entertainment. The Mardi Gras Mystery 2012-03-24T02:00:18.017Z Finding flotsam over some 5,000 miles of open ocean is not easy. Looking for Tsunami Debris on West Coast Beaches 2012-03-13T05:07:44Z The explorers spoke of his "filthy greasy skin," but the scientific sporting man of New York now imitates the Yahgan, even though vaseline gathers during a swim any flotsam that comes handy by. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z This human bit of flotsam was hers—but for her he would have gone down forever in the dark waters. Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:26.883Z These and other similar tales, the flotsam and jetsam of ocean myths, gave something of inspiration and suggestion to literature. The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce 2012-04-07T02:00:31.747Z Coarse grass and reeds covered it; and the flotsam of the last flood whitened the trunks of the willows, and hung in squalid wisps from their lower branches. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z Riflemen, rangers, forest-runners, and the flotsam and jetsam from the wilderness were no rare spectacles in Pittsburg, so at first we attracted little attention. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z Both are filter feeders and thrive on plankton, a flotsam of algae and other microorganisms. The Carp Must Die 2012-02-17T00:30:32Z They are the young flotsam that India breathlessly parades as its demographic dividend when, in reality, the children, tired and brutalised, are already past their sell-by-date. Is hope a fiction for India's poor? 2012-02-15T12:50:05Z This is where the flotsam I saw yesterday ends up. The great escape of bath toys in the Pacific 2012-02-12T00:05:21Z The shortest line from Japan would push flotsam directly into the westward-flowing Alaskan Coastal Current. Tsunami Debris & North America: Is the Tail Wagging the Dog? 2012-02-02T15:45:18.640Z It’s long been known that cells accumulate flotsam from the wear and tear of everyday living. Well Blog: Phys Ed: Exercise as Housecleaning for the Body 2012-02-01T05:01:59Z The operation cannot be completed with this flotsam in the wellbore which could pose operational problems if not removed before the well is perforated. Your Fist Is Wider Than The Wellbore at Davy Jones 1 2012-01-15T15:04:36Z We need to capture and analyze it well, separating digital wheat from digital chaff, identifying meaningful undercurrents while ignoring meaningless social flotsam. Goodbye Information Economy, Hello Feedback Economy 2012-01-05T17:58:25Z Most significant, perhaps, of all is the preservation of the flotsam of school life, a couple of school bills, the tutor's letter, another from the boy himself. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z I would even venture to ask you to mention it to him, as flotsam from the Riviera. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z He was flotsam on the sea of life—waste matter drifting aimlessly, to be finally ejected and flung, spent and useless, on the shore. The Stronger Influence 2011-12-02T03:00:23.630Z Then she would be clad in any flotsam and jetsam of apparel that charity might have drifted toward her. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z "But it is amazing!" she jerked, when at last they clung to a ledge of the chaotic jumble of flotsam and jetsam. Maid of the Mist 2011-11-21T03:00:11.937Z The British Expeditionary Force started, and was swept back like the flotsam on the seashore. Across the Stream 2011-11-05T02:00:11.673Z Farther along the coast a number of seagulls were hovering over some object and screeching, as they warily circled round the coveted piece of flotsam. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z Steve Jobs did not waste his time or ours with similar flotsam. An Analogy of Thomas Edison and Steve Jobs 2011-10-08T20:37:35Z Great quantities of driftwood and flotsam of all sorts, including canes and palm leaves, floated in a long, thin line extending for miles, forming natural banks to the world's greatest river. The Strand Magazine, Volume XXVII, Issue 160, April, 1904 2011-09-21T02:00:33.023Z Evidence that micro-climates play a major role in how & where flotsam washes in. Cigarette butts to the left, fishing rope to the right, plastic everywhere: what I found on the beach over a year. 2011-09-05T23:15:00.290Z He experienced an unaccustomed sense of shame at the thought that he was as a piece of flotsam which is set moving with the tide. The Shadow of the Past 2011-08-31T02:01:36.547Z We had nothing to do but to 234 watch the raft of timber and flotsam expand about our hawsers, a matter of some concern to us, for the current ran at six knots. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z At the riffles, to avoid another clout on the head from the spike-fanged flotsam, I found it best to swim ahead and flounder through on my own. Down the Yellowstone 2011-08-29T02:01:06.730Z The salt becomes indissoluble and the paprika is irrecoverable flotsam. The Main Chance 2011-08-26T02:00:27.127Z It is a tendency of those who collect the flotsam of the past to lament change. End Nears for a Market That Made a Scene 2011-08-24T03:00:26Z The willow tree which grew beside the spot was partially uprooted and drooped into the water with its branches festooned with flotsam. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z They set out, an ill-matched couple, flotsam that had drifted together, and would as casually drift apart. Barnaby A Novel 2011-07-12T02:00:39.777Z Of late, railway sleepers formed no small part of the flotsam, and if work was slack we sometimes, when the river was down, spent a sloppy day on the banks fishing for these floating items. Tales from the Veld 2011-07-05T02:00:29.217Z A number of baskets hung from the roof, and for flooring, instead of palm leaves, there was an old teak grating and some planks—flotsam, perhaps, from a shipwrecked vessel. In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" 2011-06-30T02:00:24.487Z It is one o£ the various pieces of jetsam and flotsam that have floated from the sea of those great events to the shores of government publications since. The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 2011-06-29T02:00:28.167Z Their curiosity had now got the better of the dread inspired by the unprecedented events just witnessed, and they began to examine and appropriate flotsam and jetsam from the wreck. The White Hecatomb And other Stories 2011-06-15T02:00:22.103Z And what was once a swift craft, a habitation, a living being, becomes nought but a flotsam of planks, scattered by the winds, tossed by the waves. Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z No, I never thought of the child—poor little bit of life's flotsam. A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z There were plenty of trees upon Palm Island, as well as much flotsam timber on the shores of it. The Corner House Girls on Palm Island 2011-06-01T02:00:23.043Z Down in the valley below, the river, brown and swollen, carries on its bosom the flotsam and jetsam of its pilgrimage through the country. Men, Women and Guns 2011-05-27T02:00:17.367Z Some years ago she drifted here from the far West—part of the human flotsam annually stranded in this city, and she found work in a cloak manufactory. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z Like Chris Pallister, who I met in Alaska, and was hell-bent and obsessed with removing tons of flotsam from the Alaskan wilderness, even if it took helicopters and barges to do so. A True Duck Hunt: interview with Donovan Hohn 2011-05-02T16:15:03.843Z Alongside the flotsam and jetsam of tourists and lunchtime snackers, there is a community of older people who adore all the animals in the park, but save particular affection for the white giants. Park life 2011-04-28T00:09:50Z Dismounting, and watching his opportunity, he succeeded after a few moment's novel angling in bringing up, by a noose made of the lash-end, his piece of flotsam. True and Other Stories 2011-04-26T02:00:27.117Z The shells bobbed in the surf, not far from clay bowls, rotting limes and waterlogged rags that had washed back ashore, flotsam from previous Hindu ceremonies to mark festivals, births, deaths and everything between. | A Ganges Stand-In in Queens 2011-04-22T12:39:16Z The shells bobbed in the surf, not far from clay bowls, rotting limes and waterlogged rags that had washed back ashore, flotsam from previous Hindu ceremonies to mark festivals, births, deaths and everything in between. Hindus Find a Ganges in Queens, to Park Rangers? Dismay 2011-04-21T17:51:26Z Was it from this that the ideal State should rise; from this sad flotsam of the seas of oppression and vice? The Bail Jumper 2011-04-16T02:00:19.103Z Nothing will move them until they are swamped by the high tide of reaction and flung as flotsam on the rocks of a stormy opportunism. Psycho-Phone Messages 2011-03-27T02:00:12.363Z As he set to work, Sumatra’s shores were already a soup of human flotsam. Dot Earth: Ocean-Spanning Power of Japan's Great Quake on Display 2011-03-11T22:45:47Z Short-lived but populous immune cells called neutrophils and the cellular flotsam they sometimes release might play an important role in lupus. Digging Into the Roots of Lupus 2011-03-10T20:21:00Z One never betrayed surprise at anything one might bring ashore from this flotsam and jetsam of the human race. The Westerners 2011-02-14T03:00:39.347Z Every annual wave pushes the flotsam of the year before toward the solid land. The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. 2011-02-12T03:00:30.987Z They were especially interesting to me because there was every reason to believe that they formed an assembly as typical of the human flotsam of the border as ever was gathered on the continent. On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada 2011-02-09T03:00:51.093Z I knew this thing before me was a fragment, a waif, a bit of flotsam on Life's sea. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z He saw it, however, like the dirty flotsam seaweed pushed in front of a great high-tide. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z “Wind-jammer gone with all hands,” said one man, after a critical glance at the flotsam on both sides of the ship. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z In the controlled chaos that is Davos, especially within the labyrinthine Congress Centre, there is no shame in letting yourself drift like flotsam to soak up the atmosphere. A beginners' guide to Davos 2011-01-19T19:44:35Z Fridges, soggy mattresses and children's toys became flotsam on the watery streets of the small town west of Brisbane, while evacuees waited for the waters to recede. After the Floods: Broom in Hand, Queensland Starts to Clean Up the Mess 2011-01-19T14:00:00Z I tell you it was good to sit by the side of that ragged piece of flotsam. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z The launch sped across the smoky harbor, riding down little isles of flotsam, dead birds from the sky and nameless mysteries from the roiled bed of the harbor. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z Madge claimed the most remarkable bit of flotsam—nothing less than the brandy bottle, unbroken, but nearly full of salt water, half buried in sand. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z Beside him, cast up on the tide, this wreck and flotsam of life's storms, battered and broken, but still lit by the flickering lamp of the human soul. The Man with the Double Heart 2010-12-21T22:55:56.757Z Having formulated the theorem, “It can’t be a violation if it doesn’t exist,” I removed seven garbage bags’ worth of opened foods and assorted flotsam from my kitchen. Would the City Shut Down Your Kitchen? 2010-09-28T23:58:00Z Making a novice's mistake, Diego Maradona opted for a 4-1-2-3 formation that left his captain hopelessly exposed whenever an attack broke down and the forwards drifted gently backwards like flotsam on an ebb tide. World Cup 2010: Our team of the tournament 2010-07-12T11:47:00Z But they couldn't eliminate the psychological effect that the growing presence of black flotsam is having on locals — and on the region's first wave of summer tourists. Awaiting the Oil on Florida's Panhandle 2010-06-06T21:55:00Z Long trails of seaweed, mixed with bottles, crates and other flotsam, drift in the still waters of the area. Floating clot of plastic plagues Atlantic: Decaying debris endangers wildlife 2010-04-20T04:00:00Z Long trails of seaweed, mixed with bottles, crates and other flotsam, drift in the still waters of the area, known as the North Atlantic Subtropical Convergence Zone. A Second Garbage Patch: Plastic Soup Seen In Atlantic 2010-04-15T20:14:00Z The placeless are no longer just the flotsam and jetsam of empires and colonies. Currents: The Struggle of the Global Placeless 2010-03-26T13:50:00Z Two areas particularly suited to trap flotsam are near South America, one west of central Chile and the other stretching from Argentina across the Atlantic nearly to South Africa. A Sea of Plastics 2010-02-26T15:52:00Z On the other hand, the privileges-or-immunities clause was "flotsam," he said. Gun case presents quandary for Supreme Court justices 2010-03-01T05:00:00Z Such tides as set towards the Himalaya broke against their farther buttresses, leaving an interesting ethnographical flotsam in the northern valleys; but they never overflowed the Himalayan barrier. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" Yet he was honest enough to admit inwardly that should victory fall to his banners there would be flotsam in the wake of his triumph, too; simple folk despoiled of their birthright. The Law of Hemlock Mountain Some 20,000 letters and parcels find their way to the Bristol Returned Letter Office as the flotsam and jetsam of the Christmas postings. The Bristol Royal Mail Post, Telegraph, and Telephone When we repulsed them temporarily they rallied and broke over us in waves, and swept us here and there, until we became mere human flotsam and jetsam on that tossing Egyptian tide. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise Not for them—the flotsam and jetsam upon the social tides—are the rosy hours of babyhood, the sweet, sweet joys of childhood. Labor and Freedom I crawled up on the sand and lay down behind and beneath the flotsam. Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies The tawdry beer hall with its reek of alcohol and fog of tobacco smoke, with its harborage of all the flotsam of the underworld, must preserve a fiction of polite manners. Sinister Street, vol. 2 The spectators melted away into the gathering mist and rain, a flotsam of black umbrellas. Sinister Street, vol. 1 Captain Harris had been, like Rodman, one of the men who make up the world’s flotsam and jetsam. The Key to Yesterday But Anne felt like a fragment of flotsam carried hopelessly on the current. The Tempering There being no beach for nearly a mile on either side of us, a quantity of flotsam, as Lewis explained, was often to be found in the cavern, carried there by the current. Highway Pirates or, The Secret Place at Coverthorne But they say earthquakes, vast convulsion of regions beneath the lowest seas, will sometimes force up to light of day strange flotsam from the ocean-bed. The Preliminaries And Other Stories As soon as it was broke, Gud dismounted and strolled along the beach looking for flotsam and jetsam. The Book of Gud They were flotsam and jetsam of all kinds. The Tremendous Event The Florencia was flotsam and jetsam to be taken by whatever chiefs held the rights of admiralty. The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day A piece of human flotsam faced about and disappeared. Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle Thus the Azores are classed by Darwin and Wallace among the oceanic islands—that is to say, among such as have received their fauna and flora by flotsam and jetsam. The History of the European Fauna The beach was strewn for miles with the flotsam and jetsam of countless tides, an accumulation that apparently had been undisturbed for centuries. By Right of Conquest A Novel Stray garbage from passing ships, flotsam from the forecastle, composed the diet upon which they usually depended in addition to their steady prey of fish. Harper's Round Table, October 29, 1895 I was just one of those nameless little scraps of a city's flotsam that get found on people's doorsteps every now and then. Thirty Dead fish, drift-wood, portions of wrecks, and other flotsam and jetsam strewed the beach, up which he slowly sauntered, kicking before him a round stone that bounded merrily across the sand. Harper's Round Table, May 28, 1895 But a bit of flotsam presented itself out of the turbulence of his thoughts, and he clutched at it with the eagerness of despair. The Sphere of Sleep Would he be able to rise from the swirling flotsam and ride free? The Mountain Girl Ichabod, when he first spied Shrimp, as he afterward named this bit of flotsam, was wildly anxious to save the creature so it might have a life on shore suited to its nature and desires. When the Cock Crows 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. The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure 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. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war The Wastrel must have gone to the bottom near by, for incoming tides from time to time deposited on my shore strange and satirical scraps of flotsam. The Portal of Dreams Terrific gales come unannounced and life is temporarily suspended until it is possible to swim into the streets and rake in the flotsam and jetsam that once lodged within your walls. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 They strolled along leisurely, stopping now and then to examine some bit of beach flotsam. The Wailing Octopus I copped it on the high seas—flotsam and jetsam,' says the 'roughneck.' The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure Every speck of flotsam is scanned in apprehension. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war I'm a bad egg, a rolling stone, flotsam, garbage, punk, anything you like that smells to heaven. Aliens Likewise there was occasional flotsam, cast up from the human sea outside the reservation, which required attention. Mystery Ranch There were bits of flotsam, including coconuts that had washed in. The Wailing Octopus Italy is indeed a complex country, and contains more of the flotsam and jetsam of English derelicts than any other country in all Europe. The Count's Chauffeur We throw sightly flotsam overboard and note the drift that takes the refuse astern. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war If they continue at sea, the law distinguishes them by the barbarous and uncouth appellations of jetsam, flotsam, and ligan. Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First Am I to drift always about the world, a mere piece of flotsam on Swansea tide? An Ocean Tramp Altogether, here was a glittering bit of flotsam from the new Mexican Empire. The Missourian In the immediate wake of the Spanish Conqueros surged the drift and flotsam of the Old World. Carmen Ariza The carousing riffraff of the wharfs, the flotsam and jetsam of the river trade, were to him but passing phenomena. The Magnificent Adventure Being the Story of the World's Greatest Exploration and the Romance of a Very Gallant Gentleman And the low reluctant tide, That rushes back to ebb a last farewell To the flotsam borne so long upon its breast. Nirvana Days I turned round, and there stood a beautiful white fellow rummaging among the flotsam on the beach. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I Then, when things eventually turned slightly in his 56 favor, very slightly, out here on the prairie amongst the derelicts, the flotsam of the grassy ocean, he had found a brief breathing space. The One-Way Trail A story of the cattle country Around the shop was the characteristic flotsam, a cart with a mashed wheel, a plough with a broken mould-board, innumerable rusted tires, worn wagon-irons, and the other wreckage of this pioneer outpost of the mechanic. Dwellers in the Hills He collects shells of Gasteropods, abandoned flotsam, the first inhabitant of which has died. The Industries of Animals In all the history of civilization, no stranger bit of flotsam had ever been cast up by a storm. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 He kept on grinning as he looked at the poor bit of human flotsam whom he had dubbed “the owl” because of her silence and her eyes. The Treasure Trail A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine It was too busy with its own affairs to concern itself to any great extent with the flotsam that drifted its way. The Twins of Suffering Creek At their base are piles of pebbles that the storm-surf has rolled on high, with a mixture of flotsam and jetsam and dead fish. Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore But still her talent went to waste Like flotsam on an open sea; She never hit the public taste, Or knew the knack of Bellettrie. The Battle of the Bays It is a simple thing, with no pretension to a place among "works of art"—this bit of flotsam from 1516, when it was painted. Holbein The dog, accustomed to sporting in the surf with its mistress, rushed to seize this flotsam, but the powerful jaws could find no hold. Heart of the Blue Ridge Louis pulled out chairs, wiped the table mightily; the French cabmen, the Barbary Coast flotsam and jetsam, gazed over their soup-spoons in silent, furtive interest. The Readjustment For our reason plays at the edge of the universe as a little child plays at the edge of the sea, gathering from its fringes the flotsam and jetsam of its mighty life. The Invader A Novel They were gone at last and we stood helplessly among our belongings that lay like flotsam and jetsam tossed up on a forbidding shore. The Van Dwellers A Strenuous Quest for a Home This heterogeneous flotsam and jetsam held some of the material from which Montana evolved its later statehood. A Man of Two Countries She became again the bit of human flotsam cruelly buffeted by the waves, forgotten of God. The Rough Road "Nothing much,—I'm just watching the driftsam and flotsam borne on the currents flowing through my mind—flowing through it and out again—away, somewhere—back to the source of thought, perhaps." Athalie Bits of flotsam—a plastic pistol, bridge tallies, a golf bag—floated in the black water. It Could Be Anything "Y-yes?" from Miss Winslow, while the entertainer drifted off into the flotsam of the party. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Inside, it is a shadowy place, stacked up high with sailing and fishing gear, flotsam, jetsam, balks of wood and all the odds and ends that he picks up on his prowlings along the coast. A Poor Man's House He is out on the roads in an automobile constantly, meeting the incoming human flotsam and jetsam of war, and his recommendations will have the weight of authority. World's War Events, Vol. II Centuries hence the ripples will still be washing up the flotsam of that fight on the shores of human life. The Long Trick And then suddenly the little bit of foreign flotsam became a man, to give her courage. Eve to the Rescue When the weather cleared again, I don't know how long it was, I crawled down and overhauled the flotsam. Isle o' Dreams No, there had been no wreck, yet all about her lay the wave-sodden flotsam and jetsam of many past disasters. The Dragon's Secret These figures, as it presently was made known, were twelve dead bodies, the flotsam of the wreck of the Deutschland. Faces and Places That flotsam, whatever it was, was of man. Old Junk Those boys may be flotsam and jetsam and all that, but they know more about patriotism than I do. Eve to the Rescue “How you do run on!” said Mother, mechanically, placid dreaminess in her face as she listened to the violin that like a river bore the flotsam of Hungarian and Jewish voices. The Innocents A Story for Lovers The next duty was salvaging amongst the flotsam and jetsam which, with the timber charging about and the water at a very low temperature, was a decidedly unpleasant task. The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula Old Mr. Bushrod Mosby she had known for years—a veritable rustic macaroni, a piece of tinselled flotsam floating on backwater. Stubble It's a sort of pocket--you know those places on the beach where a lot of flotsam strands--oceanic treasure-trove. Old Junk This was Eveley’s first opportunity to witness the development of American principles in her chosen flotsam. Eve to the Rescue In the distance, bobbing up and down on the short swell, he could see half a dozen boats; but close at hand there was nothing save the flotsam and wreckage from the ship. Mufti Paul had many rare shells and seaweeds, curious flotsam and jetsam of shore storms, and he had a small shelf full of books. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 A scuttle-butt was torn from its lashings and went by the board, and other flotsam followed it. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 The room was furnished with all manner of odds and ends, flotsam and jetsam of innumerable sales attended by Aaron. The Opal Serpent Eveley hoped devoutly that she was by her very presence helping to Americanize these particular bits of flotsam and jetsam—she trusted so. Eve to the Rescue Then, casting off the lashings by which I had secured myself to the shattered mainmast, I stood up, and carefully took the bearings of the flotsam relative to the sun, to guide me when swimming. A Middy of the King A Romance of the Old British Navy He felt proud of his little flotsam from the sea when the Frenchwoman said, 'And this, M. le Marin, is the little Mademoiselle you picked up! Chatterbox, 1906 Well, on a day, upon the shore, As flotsam, or as jetsam, Some wooden cases,—ten, or more,— Were cast up. The Book of Humorous Verse In these rooms men from the docks—the flotsam and jetsam of humanity—receive their first glimpse of "Plato and the swing of Pleiades." Old Valentines A Love Story Helping to sort out and assimilate the flotsam and jetsam of the foreign element, and imbue it with sturdy American principles, and all that.” Eve to the Rescue Even had he wrecked Beecher completely, it is very likely he would have gone down in the swirl, and become literary flotsam and jetsam just the same. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators Logs, planks, and the other flotsam of a freshet moved on in the van of the flood. Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic And James' quick eyes watched the slow surge of his flotsam, as the pot boiled but did not boil away. The Lost Girl Powder was violets to his nostril, Sweet the din of the fighting-line, Now he is flotsam on the seas, And his bones are bleached with brine. Songs of Childhood “We call it the assimilation of—of—” She hesitated, not wishing to speak of “flotsam and jetsam” to this soft and pliant creature. Eve to the Rescue A hand shot up from the back of a log that was well hidden by other flotsam, then fell back weakly. Sally of Missouri But Mr. O'Rourke failed to appear among the flotsam and jetsam which the receding tides left tangled in the piles of the River-mouth wharves. A Rivermouth Romance Keeping this cargo meant death—to jettison it meant to make flotsam and jetsam of a world! Traders Risk They had, among the flotsam in their hive, a few human bodies they had picked up from some wreck they’d come across in their travels. Greylorn Nearer and nearer it came, until at length she could recognise the form of this flotsam and jetsam of the sea. A Book of Myths The road snaked along in the Noda Valley, and from time to time she was close to the turbid flood which swept down ice cakes and flotsam. Joan of Arc of the North Woods Wrecks and flotsam and fragments of vast iron constructions— Or steel. The Book of the Damned The materialist supposes that his life is the creature of circumstances, a rudderless ship in a current, mere flotsam and jetsam on the wave. Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. I recall one clergyman, one doctor, and many men from the business world and clerk's life in the flotsam and jetsam. A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell The bodies of horses and cattle drifting down the stream told of many impoverished farms and the flotsam was eloquent of wrecked and demolished houses and indicative of suffering. The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men Directly in his path stood a ragged object—a piece of social flotsam—a unit of London's misery. The Sins of Séverac Bablon Attracted by the prospect of the precious metal that was to be wrung from it, there had drifted into the Valley a flotsam and jetsam, representatives of all nations and of all callings. The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert This is my estate, and all flotsam and jetsam as is washed ashore is mine. King o' the Beach A Tropic Tale When they reached it, again the Indian landed, and began to inspect the flotsam on the edge of the bank closely. A Mating in the Wilds The boat was found bottom upwards—a wreck, with its side stove in, entangled in a mass of flotsam and jetsam which had gathered in one of the side eddies below the waterfall. The Cock-House at Fellsgarth With flotsam and with wreckage The shore was all strown; She built of it a cottage, And there she sat down. Major Vigoureux And he thought by the way that it moved that it must be flotsam of the storm, buoyant enough to ride the waves with close to cork resiliency. Storm Over Warlock And indeed in the outside world he might safely have been termed rather rum, but here in this backwater, so full of the oddest flotsam, his waywardness was rather less than the average. The Lunatic at Large Nietzsche came and heard the Wagnerian music and was caught as flotsam in its whirling eddies. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians The succeeding poets are but survivors as by the ark, and, like the ancient dove, they gather and weave into garlands only the "flotsam" of beauty which floats on the bosom of the Shakespearean flood. Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales This flotsam and jetsam of her talk came to me from time to time as confidential asides from the main flow of palaver which rolled along steadily toward the Judge. The Statesmen Snowbound So this flotsam of the range, this erstwhile tramp, this paradox of coarseness and sentiment, had an object in life? Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail And about him bobbed storm flotsam, so that he had to pick a careful way through floating debris. Key Out of Time The "jiner" is an ameba that clings to flotsam, instead of floating free in the great ocean of life. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians Seldom has fate conspired with the fickle sea to sport with such helpless human flotsam, save, perhaps, in that crowning caprice of the waves which once cast ashore a live baby in a cradle. The Captain of the Kansas It is but a waif on the ocean of commerce—the jetsam and flotsam, of which the law must direct the disposal. The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 Out of the flotsam of his pondering came memories of other nights such as this, desert nights on the border ranges of old Mexico—that lost world of his adventurous youth. Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail Under the orders of the armed overseers the laborers were reducing the beach to order, sorting out the flotsam into two piles. Key Out of Time A wave from Great Britain swept over it, a tall and tweedy wave, bearing with it golf clubs and kitbags and every kind of English flotsam and jetsam. Set in Silver There were trains for California and Oregon and men from the waste lands to the eastward and the south, flotsam and jetsam thrown up on the desert's shore. The Emigrant Trail The light snow flurries had turned to a steady fall of thick wet flakes, melting as they hit on the warm pavement but beginning to coat the pitiful flotsam of the accident. Code Three The two Kabyles are Mohammed's, and the flotsam and jetsam is mine. The Golden Silence Between the gorge's sides they had swift glimpses of racing flotsam that had yesterday been dwelling houses and they waited, nerve-stretched, for the crash that would launch them into the same precarious channel. A Pagan of the Hills However, Mrs. Senter volunteered to go, at the last moment, just as they were starting, and Emily and I were left, flotsam and jetsam, in the car, to wait till they came back. Set in Silver He had not come to contemplate the havoc wrought on the bodies of this flotsam of dissolute life. The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon We were in hopes they would look upon our boat as flotsam and jetsam, of which there was more or less strewn upon the beach. Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War The seas of the war zone are, of course, filled with all sorts of flotsam and jetsam, and very often that which appears to be a periscope is nothing of the sort. Our Navy in the War The two bent over the tragic flotsam of the Thames unmoved and critical. The Golden Scorpion Down there were straggler, wounded soldier, teamster, mule-packer, refugee Cuban, correspondent, nurse, doctor, surgeon—the flotsam and jetsam of the battle of the day. Crittenden A Kentucky Story of Love and War I'm just a bit of flotsam drifting through life, looking for an anchorage, and never finding one. The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon In that sanctuary the tides are born and, in their appointed time, swelling and rising, they carry the poor jetsam and flotsam of life before them. The Shield of Silence Those of us who had not been broken by the experience, although suffering from extreme weakness, pulled ourselves together to make an effort to save what human flotsam and jetsam we could. Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben I stared in a fascinated way at this mysterious and tragic flotsam of old Thames. The Hand Of Fu-Manchu Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor He came out from that brown mass of human flotsam and jetsam on the Sunday afternoon following his conversion, and told them what had happened to him. From the Bottom Up The Life Story of Alexander Irvine It was a train of the northland flotsam, moving again without scruple or mercy. The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon By then the flotsam had already come to land wide about the islands and on both shores of the firth. Laxdæla Saga Translated from the Icelandic Selwyn made no response, but his brow contracted with the thought that even the flotsam, the dregs thrown up on the river's bank, were imbued with the overwhelming instinct of jingoism. The Parts Men Play Betrayed by my accomplices, I found myself, as it were, a shred of flotsam adrift in the darkling streets. Berry And Co. He began to tell her some of his past exploits: the Amazon, the Orinoco, the Andes, Tibet and China; of the strange flotsam and jetsam he had met in his travels. The Adventures of Kathlyn There was a flutter of the eyelids, a sigh, and this poor flotsam, this drift-wood which had never known a harbor in all its years, this friend of mine, this inseparable comrade—passed out. Arms and the Woman Once swept away among the flotsam and jetsam below stairs, he would be both out of sight and out of mind. The Motor Maid "Votes should belong to those who have a stake in the country, not to the flotsam and jetsam," he continued solemnly. A People's Man The flotsam and jetsam of too many sentimental stories and fairy tales were afloat in the child's active mind. Mildred's Inheritance Just Her Way; Ann's Own Way He was one of the flotsam and jetsam of life. The Survivor He had built upon sands as usual, and the tide had come in; his castle was flotsam and jetsam. Arms and the Woman I was born along with them perforce like a piece of flotsam on a raging flood-tide; there was no turning back. Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation His heart had ceased to throb with the loiterers, the flotsam and jetsam of the gutters. A People's Man There was a line all down the sands where the tide had reached, a straggling uneven line marked with huge masses of wet seaweeds, fragments of timber, the flotsam and jetsam of the sea. The Betrayal Once more the human flotsam and jetsam, worthy and unworthy, laid bare the sore places in their lives, sometimes with the smooth tongue of deceit, sometimes with the unconscious eloquence of suffering long pent up. A Prince of Sinners Home! what does such a waif, such a jetsam and flotsam of the world's flowing tide, want with a home? Adrien Leroy 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. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul My eyes searched the stretch of water between me and St. Mawes, as though for flotsam—anything to give me news, or a hint of news. Poison Island Eva was utterly disgusted by the flotsam and jetsam in human guise that she found sprawling at the tables, but she decided to brave the place. The Master Mystery The subject of the present notice was picked up at sea, a child, and, under the provisions of maritime law concerning flotsam, jetsam, and lagan, was appropriated by the crew. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 Smart Congressmen, partisans, the ignorant flotsam of conventions and intrigues, heard the philosopher with contempt. Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World They fished the oars out of the flotsam in the cove. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul She went to the pigeon-holes on the wall that held the flotsam and jetsam of unclaimed mail, and brought him a square, blue linen envelope—distinctly a lady's letter. Judith of the Plains They are, to a large extent, flotsam and jetsam over the sea of Ireland's political troubles. Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union There were shoals and whirls at the bends, and plunging flotsam to be avoided. Success A Novel Gorham worked so quietly that his purpose seemed to accomplish itself; Covington won his success by a pitiless force which left flotsam in its wake. The Lever A Novel The three pieces of human flotsam had been driven by the wind of adversity and tossed. A Little Book for Christmas "Then where's your hook?"—for the wreckwood gatherers along this part of the coast carry long gaffs to hook the flotsam and drag it above reach of the waves. Lady Good-for-Nothing Here and there it survives, part of the flotsam which has drifted through the years with grandmother's sandalwood chest, the last of the rush-bottomed chairs, and the lacquered tea-caddy. London River I liked him the better for his solicitude for this forlorn piece of flotsam of his own race. The Inheritors All out of it, chronologically speaking; enough; very likely, the flotsam and jetsam of several hundred thousand years. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 And as the flotsam on a river always centres at its eddies, so these had drifted, from the country, and from the slums, to the centre of the whirlpool of American life. The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him When the sea retreats after a storm one finds on the beach all sorts of strange flotsam. Nightfall Still more here was the trail lined with boxes, vehicles, furniture, all the flotsam and jetsam of the long, long Oregon Trail. 54-40 or Fight So one had been took to jail and one to the hospital the minute the flotsam slowed up with 'em. Ma Pettengill In those two years I knew I was flotsam. If Winter Comes All about stretched the pale green ocean of the grasses, dotted by many wild flowers, nodding and bowing like bits of fragile flotsam on the surface of a continually rolling sea. The Mississippi Bubble Poor little girl, flung to and fro as flotsam in the cruel surf of life's breakers! Charles Rex Her faculty of self-guidance left her; she was as a bit of flotsam swept onward by the eddying human tide that streamed along the way. The Downfall What about this mere shattered bit of flotsam from the world welter? Ma Pettengill I said, 'How can you be flotsam, the life you've—taken?' If Winter Comes That was all that there was to see on the ground floor, no more flotsam than that had come down to these days from peace. Unhappy Far-Off Things It looks as if all of us, ill or hale, poor or rich, are but the playthings of nature, bits of flotsam on the ocean of human passions. Sweetapple Cove More than the froth and flotsam of the Seine, More than your Hugo-flare against the night, And more than Weimar's proud elaborate calm, One flash of Byron's lightning, Wordsworth's light. The Poems of William Watson He might be mere shattered flotsam, but you bet he was still some little coper, take her word for that! Ma Pettengill The flotsam and jetsam of advanced European thought are eagerly sought and treasured up. Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series In addition to this flotsam, which is found in large masses in every big city, the militia which I mentioned consists of many adherents of an international European republic. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle So would Robinson Crusoe have glutted his sight with a copy of the London Times, could the goat have committed the anachronism of digging one out from among the flotsam in the kelp. The New North Meanwhile, Norris, as the ostrich industry declined, had gone from worse to worse, and finally he too drifted to Johannesburg with the rest of the flotsam of South Africa. Ensign Knightley and Other Stories We scattered up and down this middle island and watched every ripple and floating bit of flotsam in the hope that he would come to the surface, but nothing but his hat was seen. The Log of a Cowboy A Narrative of the Old Trail Days There's plenty of flotsam on the trail," said he, "strays and sore-footed cattle, to occupy this valley and give these boys a start in life. Wells Brothers The Young Cattle Kings His first attempt was made at the gate of the factory, where the sea of the unemployed threw up its flotsam and jetsam. Analyzing Character The proper caper for him would be the caribou rampant with a whitefish flotsam. The New North "These three things—lagan, flotsam, and jetsam—belong to the Lord High Admiral." The Man Who Laughs In gathering up this very natural flotsam of the trail, we cut nothing but what our herd had absorbed in its travels, showing due regard to a similar right of the other herds. The Log of a Cowboy A Narrative of the Old Trail Days For the present, that will give us an asylum for that branch of flotsam gathered, and as trustees and owners of the range, all increase will fall to Wells Brothers. Wells Brothers The Young Cattle Kings Save for some inconsiderable flotsam, the steamer and all that was in her had vanished eternally. A Master of Fortune Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle Only very late did Burford come back, full of the account of the wreck and of the spoils, and the struggles between the wreckers for the flotsam and jetsam. A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago Through this forgotten flotsam on the great shore of the war, the quiet crowds went in and out of the Maillot entrance to the Bois de Boulogne. A Volunteer Poilu There were seven men in the camp entitled to share in this flotsam on their range, the extra steer falling to the foreman. Cattle Brands A Collection of Western Camp-fire Stories The next shipment would come from the flotsam of the year before, many of which were heavy beeves, intended for army delivery, but had fallen footsore on the long, drouthy march. Wells Brothers The Young Cattle Kings It was swept out of sight like flotsam in the plenteous stream of present content. The Precipice How I drifted, a sort of human flotsam, against the crags of Styria would be a long, uninteresting story. Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy Powder was violets to his nostrils, Sweet the din of the fighting-line, Now he is flotsam on the seas, And his bones are bleached with brine. Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes Volume II. Of course one can sit right down on the bobby bow itself with feet hanging over, and poke with a stick at the flotsam. Virginia: the Old Dominion The dead-line was held, the flotsam cared for, and a hand was ever ready to point a herd or nurse the drag end. Wells Brothers The Young Cattle Kings Bits of flotsam and jetsam became entangled between the orange-trees and formed dams that little by little grew with the new spoils brought along by the current. The Torrent Entre Naranjos They belong to the flotsam and jetsam of ephemeral gossip. Collections and Recollections Only a bit of flotsam on the human wave. The Purchase Price And some there were that carried all sorts of wreckage—the flotsam and jetsam cast up on the safe shores behind the front by the red tide of war. A Minstrel in France What we did skirmish together was merely the flotsam of the trail, the crumbs that fall from the supper table, and all obligations to me are overpaid. Wells Brothers The Young Cattle Kings |
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