Ancient mariner, second in command in vessel

Usage examples of crusoe.

Ma giudicate voi, che leggete la mia storia, quale fosse la mia sorpresa allorché venni svegliato da una voce che mi chiamava ripetutamente per nome: «Robin, Robin, Robin Crusoe, povero Robin Crusoe, dove sei Robin Crusoe?

La voce però continuava a ripetere: «Robin Crusoe, Robin Crusoe,» cosicché alla fine mi svegliai davvero e balzai in piedi, al colmo dello spavento.

When Crusoe struggles ashore, then builds a raft and removes food, ammunition and wine from the wrecked ship and constructs a tent of sailcloth, the reader is there on the island with him.

Please to consider me, sir, as doing what Robinson Crusoe did, on the present occasion.

Distant colonies were left to fend for themselves, marooned here and there on semihabitable worlds like so many Crusoes on desert islands.