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Updated: June 29, 2025
I came back for my overcoat at four the other morning, after the poker game, and he was still pegging away just like that." Other belated editors and reporters of the Chronicle staff drifted toward the elevator, until the gray-haired copy-reader was left alone in the city room as if marooned.
I am separated from my broomstick, which has all the germ-bombs hanging from its collar the germs are those of dissension and riot I am marooned upon an English cloud, with no enemy at my mercy but a paltry and treacherous non-combatant " "At your mercy," breathed our witch, remembering. She looked up.
But man is also a solitary creature, and in that very solitariness, which he knows as he contrasts it with his social interests, he finds identity of self, the something which makes us "us," which separates us from all others in the world. A Crusoe, marooned on a South Sea island, without even a black man Friday for companionship, would soon cease to be a man; personality would forsake him.
What hair-breadth escapes did I meet with? I have been asked. Was I ever marooned? Ever cast away, as Jack says, on the top crust of a half-penny loaf? Ever overboard among sharks? Ever gazing madly round the horizon, the sole occupant of a frizzling boat, in search of a ship where I might obtain water to cool my blue and frothing lips?
But the swift current had it in its grasp and bore it rapidly away. Masterson sprang on Sam and began beating him violently as the cause of all the trouble. It was serious enough for them. The loss of the boat had marooned them on the island. The boat drifted past a rocky point further down the island shore. Had they been there, they would have been able to seize it.
Otis is a prime favorite. Wrecked on Spider Island; or, How Ned Rogers Found the Treasure. By JAMES OTIS. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00. Ned Rogers, a "down-east" plucky lad ships as cabin boy to earn a livelihood. Ned is marooned on Spider Island, and while there discover a wreck submerged in the sand, and finds a considerable amount of treasure.
And then the cruiser had come. When those who could had recovered, the entire story had been told to the French commander; but the men were too ignorant to be able to tell him at just what point on the coast the professor and his party had been marooned, so the cruiser had steamed slowly along within sight of land, firing occasional signal guns and scanning every inch of the beach with glasses.
She reproached herself for such a thought; it was disloyal to admit that this stranger on the Landson ranch was a greater man than her husband-to-be. And yet honesty or, perhaps, something deeper than honesty compelled her to make that admission.... She ran back over the remembered incidents of the night they had spent together, marooned like shipwrecked sailors on a rock in the foothills.
"Anyway, it's a barren island," said Archer; "are you hungry?" Tom sat in the doorway, favoring his hurt knee, and watched Archer move cautiously about among the sharp, slippery rocks, where he succeeded in cornering and spearing several bewildered fish which the troubled waters of the night had marooned in these small recesses.
We can drop him off at Panama." "Any port in a time of storm," suggested our prisoner blithely. "Personally, I'd like to see you marooned for a few months," I growled, for the man's insolence ruffled me. I found Blythe on the bridge with Mott. "I have to report a prisoner of war captured, captain," I announced in formal military style. Blythe laughed. "Who is he?" "Captain Boris Bothwell, sir."
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