| 单词 | jetsam |
| 例句 | Already men were labouring to clear a way through the jetsam of battle; and now out from the Gate came some bearing litters. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The place was a back eddy, a pool of jetsam beyond the pull of the main current, and that suited him just fine. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 "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 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 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 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 “Flotsam and jetsam of the modern world, refugees are engaged in a dogged battle to endow a modicum of dignity to lives over which they exert almost no control,” Michela Wrong writes, reviewing the book. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 combined conditions of life as a black-market capitalist and life as 30-something jetsam circling a debt whirlpool keep Emily rotating through states of sober agency and abject alarm. The Reinvention of Aubrey Plaza 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z The drawings of figs and protein bars and David Bowie record covers interspersed throughout the book give the impression of twee jetsam. In ‘I Might Regret This,’ Abbi Jacobson Hits the Road. Insomnia, Heartbreak, Hilarity and Self-Discovery Ensue. 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 Slowly, to the sound of gently undulating waves, the bodies begin to roll from side to side, like jetsam washing onshore. Dance takes on contemporary issues in Whim W’Him’s ‘Winter ’23’ 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z 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 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 "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 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 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 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 Turning fishing net jetsam into hats, chairs, even bikes. Beyond lockdown: what to take with us into the new world? 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z 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 But since whale populations were decimated, much remains unknown about ambergris, and especially the origin of jetsam ambergris. New Origin Story for Gross Blobs That Wash Up on Beaches 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z 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 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 Flotsam and jetsam from the storm are displayed as art in their own right, including lengths of weathered nautical rope and fishing line that she plucked from New Jersey beaches after the storm. Survivors’ tales part of the art in Superstorm Sandy exhibit 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z An environmental envoi, perhaps, with Buzz washed up on a beach alongside other jetsam, or clogging the gullet of a whale? “Toy Story 4” Plays It Again 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z 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 The initiative echoes other movements around the world trying to tackle the steady burial of the earth’s beauty under mounds of consumer jetsam. Bali hopes to regain paradise island status with mass cleanup 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Iain Galbraith, who has also translated Sebald, gives “River”, and all its “lumber of cumbersome jetsam”, a special English poetry of grunge and grime. Esther Kinsky muses on a river in England 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z People sifted through the jetsam along the beach — basketballs, broken surfboards, gas cans, lawn chairs. Scene of devastation in Montecito as mud buries whole neighborhoods 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z 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 On the mantel were a tail feather from a black vulture, a bracket fungus, and an owl carved from jetsam whalebone that someone had sent to help him see in the dark. Pen Pals Provide Linguistic Curios 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 Mr. Camp had showed Republicans what couldn’t work, and his jetsam became ready-made chunks of legislation for his successors. After Years of Turmoil, Republican Tax Overhaul Picks Up Speed 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z 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 Besides, the point of Fluxus in part was to repackage pedestrian jetsam, and resell it to the elite as high art. A 91-year-old woman finished a crossword puzzle that was actually art in a museum 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 "These were the first of the rootless, the spiritual predecessors of decaying Europe's special jetsam whom rightist leaders would later organize." Carl Schorske, who wrote Pulitzer-winning classic 'Fin-de-Siecle Vienna,' dead at 100 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 Scattered across the crash site was the unmistakable jetsam of vacation: sunhats and suntan lotion, summer clothing, duty free shopping, the occasional poolside novel. MH17 plane crash site: sunhats, sweets … and stakes marking body parts 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 A wave of emotion flooded her mind, receded, and left it strewn with the jetsam of the past. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z 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 The crowd passes over him in a flood, leaving him like jetsam among the stones. Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes 2012-04-10T02:00:19.943Z 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 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 The shelving sandy beach is strewed with the jetsam of the storm. With Drake on the Spanish Main 2012-02-20T03:00:17.357Z It finds naught but a starving gull whose wings trail at its side, And the dull battered wreckage, grey jetsam of the tide. Irradiations; Sand and Spray 2012-02-14T03:00:28.347Z 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 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 "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 difficulty, rather, is spotting signs of it in the jetsam of subatomic debris these machines produce. Looking for the Higgs: Enemy in sight? 2011-07-27T17:30:45Z This young man, so carefully trained, so highly educated, so exquisitely refined in thought and behaviour, found himself feeling a real friendship and something akin to tenderness for this kindly, battered jetsam of life. House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court 2011-07-15T02:00:24.257Z 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 He had never seen any jetsam of size on that side. Maid of the Mist 2011-11-21T03:00:11.937Z Flotsam and jetsam abounded in every cranny of the bank and on the down-stream side of every point and headland. Between Sun and Sand A Tale of an African Desert 2011-06-15T02:00:16.390Z 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 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 Flotsam, jetsam and ligan belong to the sovereign in the absence only of the true owner. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z 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 She opened one, and looked out upon a small green area outside, littered with paper and bottles and all kind of jetsam. The Ivory Gate, a new edition 2010-12-25T03:00:10.617Z 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 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 The ribs of an umbrella; a child's boot; a broken sieve; rags of faded color, lay here in the gutter undisturbed, the jetsam of a deserted beach. Sinister Street, vol. 2 Captain Harris had been, like Rodman, one of the men who make up the world’s flotsam and jetsam. The Key to Yesterday 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 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 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 I've been watching men of your sort all my life, and I know what they're worth—drift on the beaches, scraps, trash, jetsam. Where the Pavement Ends 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 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 But the recovery of jetsam could not affect the result. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) 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 And here, lastly, he was aware of Junius Peabody, also on the beach, washed up at the far edge of the world like any other useless bit of jetsam: to stay and to rot. Where the Pavement Ends I copped it on the high seas—flotsam and jetsam,' says the 'roughneck.' The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure 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 It was as if her own will could no longer lead her, as if she were being carried by a strong tide, with other jetsam, towards shores unknown. The Peace of Roaring River 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 He might just as well, he might much better, slump down in a sodden heap amid the rest of the jetsam. Where the Pavement Ends Among the jetsam of those restless Fundy tides almost anything that will float may appear, from a matchbox to a barn. The House in the Water A Book of Animal Stories 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 Allan drifted lower, and saw that from what had been gardened roof-parks, now a welter of strewn earth, the green things had spread till they covered the heaped jetsam with a healing blanket of foliage. When the Sleepers Woke "The moon has risen," said Anton, as the music ceased, and they found themselves suddenly stranded, like bits of jetsam on a shore. The Rainbow 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 In these I hauled over the wretched jetsam of a thousand cheap apartments and came out dusty and contaminated but not discouraged. 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 The coast is as pitiless as it is beautiful, and many relics of wreckage are often washed ashore; after heavy storms the crags and caves are still searched for jetsam. The Cornwall Coast She was a daughter of the desert—a bit of that jetsam which the Rio Grande leaves upon its arid banks as it journeys stealthily to the sea. Children of the Desert Singularly straightforward in all his dealings, a little of the old West-country wrecking spirit yet survives in him, and he enjoys nothing better than smuggling jetsam past the coastguards. A Poor Man's House 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 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 Those boys may be flotsam and jetsam and all that, but they know more about patriotism than I do. Eve to the Rescue Flotsam and jetsam of eternity they might all be, his missionaries and Clark and himself, but underneath were the ever-lasting arms, on which,—and he thanked God for this,—some had already learned to lean. The Rapids 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 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 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 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 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 When he is nowhere to be found, he is a as a rule down-shore carrying jetsam into caves. A Poor Man's House The room was furnished with all manner of odds and ends, flotsam and jetsam of innumerable sales attended by Aaron. The Opal Serpent 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 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 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 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 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 Flotsam and jetsam of shucks drifting down, and forming in mass at the eddies. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler “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 He gathered it in and swept his tiny flash around in search of other jetsam from his tool kit. Tight Squeeze Phedro I am the examining magistrate of all the jetsam from the sea that is washed from anywhere whatever upon our shores. Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes Keeping this cargo meant death—to jettison it meant to make flotsam and jetsam of a world! Traders Risk 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 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 shimmering waters of the open sea were loaded with wreckage of all kinds—islands of débris from field and forest and floating fields of pumice and jetsam. Plotting in Pirate Seas 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 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 The nature of the shore varies greatly according to the nature of the rocks, according to what the streams bring down from inland, and according to the jetsam that is brought in by the tides. The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told Even the jetsam whale-tooth and wreckage scraps of iron that ocean cast up on the shore were claimed by the lord of the land. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula At 10.30 on the morning of the 18th the Brigade moved northwards along a road strewed with the jetsam of a retreating army, until Ramleh was reached. The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 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 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 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 two Kabyles are Mohammed's, and the flotsam and jetsam is mine. The Golden Silence The pressure of the newer speakers will compel it to make jetsam of that lumber also; and then the tongue of Shelley and Newton will march onward unopposed to the conquest of humanity. Post-Prandial Philosophy 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 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 The jetsam of officialdom was washed up on that lonely, lovely shore. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story 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 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 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 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 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 He had built upon sands as usual, and the tide had come in; his castle was flotsam and jetsam. 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 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 His heart had ceased to throb with the loiterers, the flotsam and jetsam of the gutters. A People's Man Home! what does such a waif, such a jetsam and flotsam of the world's flowing tide, want with a home? Adrien Leroy 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 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 no longer possessed a village, nor a home, nor a family; they arrived like jetsam cast up by the waters, and the eyes of all were full of terrified anguish. New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915 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 Yours to watch at the ebb and flow The tides of the public thought— Flotsam or jetsam floating in With the treasure genius brought. More Toasts 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 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 Flotsam and jetsam, wreckage, showed more and more. The Covered Wagon The flotsam and jetsam of advanced European thought are eagerly sought and treasured up. Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series The apple trees in the orchards are shaken and scatter bird-like jetsam in space; and in that bright green paddock yonder the rows of out-hung linen dance in the sunshine. Light 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 "These three things—lagan, flotsam, and jetsam—belong to the Lord High Admiral." The Man Who Laughs The fishermen were burning seaweed and jetsam for ashes which would be used as fertilizer. Kimono 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 The high-water line was shown by a serpentine strip of jetsam winding along the whole of the shore. A Tramp's Sketches 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 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 Financiers and promoters, and all the flotsam and jetsam of the sea of speculation surged upon the shores of his eleven millions. Burning Daylight They were the usual flotsam and jetsam, but on the roadside near a hop garden he came upon a group of an aspect so unusual that it attracted his attention. The Shuttle She was no longer a child; she was no longer mere human flotsam and jetsam. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise I am not a purposeless bit of jetsam flung out on the ocean of time to be tossed about helplessly. The Conquest of Fear The flotsam and jetsam of life have to learn to be men and women first. The Master Detective Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles Still it remains, if stagnant, self-respecting, has a hotel, a post office and a street of stores, along which the human flotsam and jetsam of the mineral belt may drift without exciting comment. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California With age a civilization accumulates such impedimenta, traditional flotsam and jetsam, and race fatigue proceeds with equal step with its increasing volume. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene And now the important question was, from whence came this jetsam? The Mysterious Island "They are the strangest pieces of flotsam and jetsam that were ever thrown upon this coast," I remarked. The Mystery of Cloomber The place was a confused medley of the flotsam and jetsam of dwelling houses, and appeared to him much more like a pawnbroker's than the business place of an art dealer. The Nest Builder But it was too late: a new regime had begun; his little period of sway had passed, leaving as a last proof of his art this human jetsam saved for the nonce. The Web of Life The bay-shore bears traces of more than one wreck; and in the graveyard used by the native sailor, an open awning of flotsam and jetsam looks from afar like a tumble-down log-hut. The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Then, Neb and Pencroff dug out the sand with their oars, and soon the canoe, with the jetsam in tow, was rounding the promontory to which they gave the name of Jetsam Point. The Mysterious Island We made our way through a constantly growing confusion of abandoned equipment and garments—all the flotsam and jetsam of a rout. Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front The author of Bunch Grass ventures to hope that this book will not be altogether regarded as mere flotsam and jetsam of English and American magazines. Bunch Grass A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch To carry on the economic life of a nation with its labor flotsam and jetsam is loss at any time; in time of storm and stress it is suicide. Mobilizing Woman-Power These intagli would be interesting relics for collectors of such flotsam and jetsam of a ruined dynasty. Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles But the natural conclusion of the colonists was that these strangers could not be Malay pirates, since the jetsam was evidently of European or American production. The Mysterious Island The river shows curious currents and counter-currents, as bits of débris are hurrying upward in the middle of the stream, while similar flotsam and jetsam rush away as rapidly down stream along both shores. Over the Border: Acadia, the Home of "Evangeline" The gulls became tamer and more numerous, and jetsam and flotsam drifted past us. The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II A motley crowd was pouring into the various doors of the huge hostelry, for the evening trains were depositing the flotsam and jetsam of humanity into busy Gotham. The Midnight Passenger : a novel Upon entering, one may pass through a saloon where white-aproned waiters load trays and wrangle over checks, then into a ball-room filled with the flotsam and jetsam of midnight Manhattan. The Ne'er-Do-Well The discovery of this jetsam made the thorough exploration of the island more necessary than ever. The Mysterious Island The little low-ceilinged room, with its square window, into which he took her, was filled with the flotsam and jetsam of his roving life—things beautiful and odd and strange beyond all telling. Further Chronicles of Avonlea The road these others tread Is littered deep with jetsam and the bones Of their dishonored dead. The Eye of Zeitoon One was obviously jetsam from a steamship; one was a Chinese thing, carved with staggering dragons; the other was made of iron-hard wood that Yerkes swore came from South America. The Ivory Trail An awful darkness seemed to close in upon him,—and a chaotic confusion of memories began to whirl and drift through his mind like flotsam and jetsam tossed upon a storm-swept sea. Ardath Flotsam and jetsam make another class of Beachcomber by stimulating the gaming instincts. Confessions of a Beachcomber The Yukon had closed and the human flotsam and jetsam it had borne thither was settling. The Winds of Chance Accustomed as he was to watch the ebb and flow of modern literature, he had not yet sighted either the Longford straw or the Adderley cork, among the flotsam and jetsam of that murky tide. God's Good Man In the bottom of the ravine the soil is shot-churned, crowded with jetsam, swarming with prostrate bodies. Under Fire: the story of a squad Curious flotsam and jetsam, these four, of society which had something of a Continental flavour; personages, every one of them, with claim to recognition, but without any noticeable hall-mark.... Jeanne of the Marshes Land is always near, and the flotsam and jetsam, do they not supply that smack of excitement—if not the boisterous hope—bereft of which life might seem "always afternoon?" Confessions of a Beachcomber Jim trying to see how near he could get to a wave without being caught, got washed up like jetsam. Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn It depressed me, the sight of this vast lumber-room, this collection of useless flotsam and jetsam, cast up and rejected by the sea of strenuous life. The Gates of Chance As to flotsam and jetsam—there was a little property, Mr Critic, on the sea-shore—that was a matter that had to be left unsettled at the last. Doctor Thorne However this may be, the machine had lain hidden by dust and the flotsam and jetsam of the house for twenty years, when, as I have said, I came upon it unexpectedly. The Enchanted Typewriter It had swept him up, weak and nerveless, on the beach of retrospect; among the wreck of past hopes; the flotsam and jetsam of what might have been. Garrison's Finish : a romance of the race course So it happened that, though misfortune had laid on almost all a heavy hand, the early colonists to Georgia were by no means undesirable flotsam and jetsam. Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings She had found many curious things,—the flotsam and jetsam of previous storms,—but as yet, it is perhaps needless to say, not the treasure. Colonel Starbottle's Client The flotsam and jetsam of defeat swirled round him as he rode. Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray In reply to Hemmingway's suggestion that it was a great waste of material, Jules simply replied that the logs were the "flotsam and jetsam" of the creek from the overflowed mills below. Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation From time immemorial, it has been a favorite repository for all manner of illicit flotsam and jetsam human or otherwise. Bruce Over a space of half a dozen acres the flotsam and jetsam of years of tidal offerings were collected, and even guarded with a certain care. The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales Mrs. Bunting had had some sinister experiences with men and women —especially women—drawn from that nameless, mysterious class made up of the human flotsam and jetsam which drifts about every great city. The Lodger But the jetsam is in the position of a passenger who has been carried off by the wrong train. Darwin and Modern Science From side to side the avenue was filled with a dense procession of youths—youths interspersed with maidens whose parasols were as flotsam and jetsam on a seething current of straw hats. Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Remember what I tell you,—all the strong motives, love and hate and jealousy, are mere flotsam and jetsam. Other Things Being Equal The vast flood of flotsam and jetsam which pours from the presses seldom floats on a deep current. Study of the King James Bible It should also be borne in mind that there is a great difference between flotsam and jetsam. Darwin and Modern Science |
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