Gilligan and his companions

Usage examples of castaways.

It is therefore, probable that within only a few weeks castaways have been thrown by a storm on some part of the coast.

If castaways had landed on the island, they could not have yet quitted the shore, and it was not in the woods that the survivors of the supposed shipwreck should be sought.

The castaways proceeded toward the north of the land on which chance had thrown them, an unknown region, the geographical situation of which they could not even guess.

The castaways, although their strength was nearly exhausted, still marched courageously forward, hoping every moment to meet with a sudden angle which would set them in the first direction.

The castaways could expect nothing but from themselves and from that Providence which never abandons those whose faith is sincere.

The 5th of April, which was Wednesday, was twelve days from the time when the wind threw the castaways on this shore.

The settlers in Lincoln Island were no longer the miserable castaways thrown on the islet.

In fact, the castaways would have been always able to procure fire, in some mode or other, but no human power could supply another grain of corn, if unfortunately this should be lost!

Spilett, do you not think it very extraordinary that, if any castaways have landed on the island, they have not yet shown themselves near Granite House?

If any castaways had landed on the coast, it was to be feared they were without resources, and it was therefore the more necessary to carry help to them without delay.

Now, it was this coast, that is, all the Serpentine Peninsula, that was to be explored, for this part of the shore offered a refuge to castaways, which the other wild and barren side must have refused.

They were then mere castaways, not even knowing how they should preserve their miserable lives from the fury of the elements!

They themselves were but castaways, but it was to be feared that another might not have been so fortunate, and their duty was to go to his succor.

March, the day on which, two years before, the castaways from the air had been thrown upon Lincoln Island.

Certainly, the colonists were not in the situation of castaways abandoned on a sterile islet, constantly contending against a cruel nature for their miserable existence, and incessantly tormented by the longing to return to inhabited countries.