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Updated: May 18, 2025
They stopped at an old weather-beaten house that had in its low windows all sorts of curious things models of ships and boats, odd bits of pottery, rude carvings, old brasses and mirrors, the flotsam and jetsam from broken homes and broken lives that had drifted into this little eddy. The proprietor, a bent and grizzled old man, who stood smoking at the door, noticed the young strangers.
Around it the waves of unrest may surge and roar but there peace reigns. 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 tide was rising in the soul of Meredith Thornton; she was awake at last. Awake as people are who have lived with their faculties drugged.
Of all these none pleased Ruth so much as the album, filled with the pictures of her school-girl friends, that Edna May brought her. Edna was the adopted daughter of Captain Bill May, who had brought her home from one of his voyages when she was a little baby, and placed her in his wife's arms, saying that she was a bit of flotsam and jetsam that belonged to him by right of salvage.
We induced some to sign the pledge and to keep it, if only temporarily, but I think that we ourselves got most out of the work, both in pleasure and uplift. I recall one clergyman, one doctor, and many men from the business world and clerk's life in the flotsam and jetsam. One poor creature, in the last stage of poverty and dirt, proved to be an honours man in Oxford.
They also devised and used all manner of safeguards against imposition and the inclusion of any who would be wholly burdens, moral or physical. 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. The plans for the colony, the hopes for its well-being, wear a tranquil and fair countenance.
Devant heard the outer door close; then he sank in his chair and bowed his head upon the two photographs. "Where your mother went before you!" he groaned. "Poor little flotsam and jetsam!" "There goes Janet like a shot from a gun!" "Whar?" Davy and Mark were hauling oil up to the lamp.
"You couldn't think of it? Well, when did you take command of my ship?" "You're flotsam an' jetsam, sir, an' practically in the breakers. You're sick, an', for all I know, delirious, so for the sake o' protectin' you, the sick seaman in the fo'castle an' the owners, I'm takin' command." The master of the Chesapeake reached under his pillow and produced a pistol.
Anxiety to learn soon made me an expert, and before the month ended I had caught and branded for myself over one hundred mavericks. Cattle were so worthless that no one went to the trouble to brand completely; the crumbs were acceptable to me, and, since no one else cared for them and I did, the flotsam and jetsam of the range fell to my brand.
He was eager to visit a coral-reef, and this atoll, stocked and planted only by the flotsam and jetsam of the seas, the winds, and migrating birds, offers to the naturalist a most delightful study; for here, progressing almost under his eyes, are the phenomena which have made Bermuda and other coral groups.
The sanitary arrangements upon this field were of the most barbarous character, comprising merely deep wide open ditches which had been excavated by ourselves. 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.
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