1958, Ovid, The Metamorphoses, translated by Horace Gregory, Viking, 1958, Book III, "Cadmus," p. 63,
Even now Jove shed the image of a bull,
Confessed himself a god, and stepped ashore
On the beached mountainside of Crete,

[…] Yet she glanced no thought
At her own mermaid nakedness but gathering
The long black serpents of beached seaweed wove
Wreaths for old Jinny and crowned and wound her. […]

It is here, next to the beached ship of Odysseus, that the Achaeans of the Iliad hold their assemblies and perform their sacrifices.

There were some trampled-looking patches of cassava and taro and a beached, derelict car or two.

Helene I found beached on the floor outside her room, awake and talking to herself but with no desire to press on toward bed.

Beached

Meaning

Adj

Verb

Origin

Related

Rhymes