set ashore

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set ashore - arrive on shore; "The ship landed in Pearl Harbor"

shore, land

arrive, come, get - reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress; "She arrived home at 7 o'clock"; "She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight"

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This sailor quarreled with his captain, and was set ashore upon an uninhabited island where he remained alone for more than four years.

English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context

Voyage Round the World,' and also, as every one knows, by the experience of Alexander Selkirk, a sailor who, set ashore on the island of Juan Fernandez, off the coast of Chile, had lived there alone from 1709 to 1713.

A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context

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