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Sentences ending with drift

Not far off to the left of him and his mounted infantry there were coming on for this purpose two batteries of artillery and three thousand infantry--Leary's brigade, which had not been in the action the day before at Wortmann's Drift. [11]
Perhaps because it seemed so grotesque, perhaps because it was easier to drift. [11]
By this time I had again vague ideas that sometime I should come here, but how or why I couldn't tell; I was drifting, and for her sake willing to drift. [11]

Sentences containing drift two or more times

We still drift, drift, drift along--at intervals a spanking breeze and then--drift again--hardly move for half a day. [5]
There may be a Newport religious drift, or sporting drift, or conversational style or complexion, or cut of face, but there are entire empires in America, north, south, east, and west, where you could not find your duplicates. [5]

More example sentences with the word drift in them

John swore he wouldn't walk back, so we rolled a drift log apiece into the Lake, and set about making paddles, intending to straddle the logs and paddle ourselves back home sometime or other. [5]
As the winter wore on, and March town meeting approached, strange rumors of a Democratic ticket began to drift into Jonah Winch's store,--a Democratic ticket headed by Fletcher Bartlett, of all men, as chairman of the board. [9]
We drift apart, Wilberforce and I--well, I mean Wilberforce as a type. [11]
At times the whole drift of life, of the easy morality of the time, is against her. [4]
Once in a while in the evenings, after ten, he would run across me on the porch of the inn, or drift into my rooms. [9]
Book after book which he casually mentioned, as showing the drift of the age, and profoundly affecting modern thought, she knew only by name. [4]
The other pirates were looking their last, too; and they all looked so long that they came near letting the current drift them out of the range of the island. [5]
Traversing a drift, we came to the Spanish line, passed five sets of timbers still uninjured, and found the earthquake. [5]
But if we watch it carefully we shall be able to predict with some assurance the drift in Paris. [4]
Quick as Marion was, this was said so quietly that she did not quite see the drift of it. [11]
But as it was, he could only drift, and let all other things take their course. [8]
I, whose sight was long trained to darkness, could see a great distance round us, and so could prevent a trap, though once or twice we let our canoe drift with the tide, lest our paddles should be heard. [11]
When we got up in the morning, we found that the fire had burned small pieces of drift wood within six feet of our boat, and had made its way to within 4 or 5 steps of us on the South side. [5]
She did not understand, was never satisfied with allusions, and she had no gift for catching the drift of things. [11]
I started across to the town from a little below the ferry-landing, and the drift of the current fetched me in at the bottom of the town. [5]
Our idea is to strike across lots and reach St. Louis the 20th of April --thence we propose to drift southward, stopping at some town a few hours or a night, every day, and making notes. [5]
Tom presently began to drift insensibly back into the concerns of this life again. [5]
One whole day to cover ten miles--an endless path of agony, in which Jim went down again and again, but came up blinded by snow and drift, and cut as with lashes by the angry wind. [11]
Only two or three days had elapsed since the funeral, when something happened which was to change the drift of Laura's life somewhat, and influence in a greater or lesser degree the formation of her character. [5]
Why not let things drift as they are? [4]
Into Jasmine's voice there came another and more reflective note, and the drift of the conversation changed. [11]
I'll go up the river to an aisy p'int a mile above, get in, and drift down to a p'int below there, thin climb up and loose the stuff. [11]
He thought of the probable comments of the men of his London club upon the drift his conversation was taking with a New England spinster about his fitness to marry a school-teacher. [4]
Her people, seeing the drift of things, had sent her to a school on the Hudson, and the two did not meet for some time. [11]
They would say that, at any rate, if they did not perceive the drift of the question. [5]
And I marked that she never allowed her talk with him to drift into deep water; when there was danger of this she would draw the entire table into their conversation by some adroit remark, or create a laugh at his expense. [9]
Our affection was such as comes not often to those who drift together to part. [9]
We of the South think of our ancestors, and drift deeper and deeper into debt. [9]
You can do something with a ship that has headway; it will drift upon the rocks if it has not. [4]
Iberville let his ship drift on her path, intent on a hand-to-hand fight aboard the Bridgwater Merchant; the grappling-irons were ready, and as they drifted there was silence. [11]
He could not see the drift of this, and he was about to whisper to Parpon, when the little man sent him a look, commanding silence, and he fretted on dumbly. [11]
As the hawk sails without flapping his pinions, so you drift with the tide when you will, in the most luxurious form of locomotion indulged to an embodied spirit. [6]
The New Englander replied bravely, but Quebec was not destined to be taken by bombardment, and Iberville saw the Six Friends drift, a shattered remnant, out of his line of fire. [11]
Cynthia smiled from pure happiness, for she began to see the drift of things now. [9]
The sun rose presently and sent its unobstructed splendors over the land, and we saw a prodigious host moving slowly toward us, with the steady drift and aligned front of a wave of the sea. [5]
They have a prescience of changes in the drift of public affairs, and a delicate sensitiveness that causes them to adjust their raiment to express these changes. [4]
This suture occasionally persists more or less distinctly in man after maturity; and more frequently in ancient than in recent crania, especially, as Canestrini has observed, in those exhumed from the Drift, and belonging to the brachycephalic type. [1]
Presently, a woman passed along, and although she coldly said nothing she changed the drift of our talk. [5]
But I made out to see that the drift of the current was towards the left-hand shore, which meant that I was in a crossing; so I changed off and went that way. [5]
We usually pushed out a hundred yards or so from shore, and then lay down on the thwarts, in the sun, and let the boat drift by the hour whither it would. [5]
Some of those other people will have to drift around to two or three hotels, in the rain, before they find accommodations. [5]
The minutes drift on and on and on, with not a sound but the ticking of the clock; at last the sun fires a sudden sheaf of rays into the ghostly tree and turns it into a white splendor of glittering diamonds. [5]
The materialistic drift of this age--that is, its devotion to material development--is frequently deplored. [4]
But the drift of his mind might be gathered from a remark he made to his wife one day, when some social allusion was made to Mavick: "I'll bring down that snob. [4]
One or two of his colleagues saw the drift of his policy and would have thrown him over if they could have replaced him by a man as capable, who would, at the time, consent to grow rich on their terms. [11]
Presently I drew my chin down to my shoulder, and let myself drift out of painful consciousness almost as easily as a sort of woman can call up tears at will. [11]
He should see me at a certain point on the ramparts, and, well armed, we also would make our way to Sillery, and from the spot called the Anse du Foulon drift down the river in the dead of night. [11]
Descending a long incline in this tunnel, we traversed a drift or so, and then went down a deep shaft from whence we proceeded into the fifth gallery of the Ophir. [5]
But at last, in the drift of time, Hadleyburg had the ill luck to offend a passing stranger--possibly without knowing it, certainly without caring, for Hadleyburg was sufficient unto itself, and cared not a rap for strangers or their opinions. [5]
And I felt, if I did not say them now, that perhaps I never should: that now or never was the appropriate time, and to delay would be to drift into an impossible situation wherein the chance of an understanding would be remote. [9]
Now, when she heard of Rudyard's bravery at Wortmann's Drift, a curious thrill of excitement ran through her veins, or it would be truer to say that a sensation new and strange vibrated in her blood. [11]
These people all have the "nightcap" habit, and drift along towards the bar-room--the last brilliant scene in the drama of the idle day, the necessary portal to the realm of silence and sleep. [4]
Then, before I had guessed at his drift, he thrust his hand inside his coat and drew forth a pile of carefully folded bank notes. [9]
The white herd had come to a stop, and the pall of yellow dust began to drift away on the wind. [13]
I don't exactly get the drift of that last remark; but I rather like a remark that I can't understand; like the landlady's indigestible bread, it stays by you. [4]
When we drift further down the column and read the poetry about little Johnnie, the depression and spirits acquires and added emphasis, and we experience tangible suffering. [5]
If he were drifting to starboard, you might put your helm down hard the other way, if it were any satisfaction to you to do it, but he would continue to drift to starboard all the same. [5]
He would only drift with the tide that made for fortune. [4]
Look at the drift of things. [4]
He wanted to drift back to the idleness and adventure and the "easy money" of the old anarchist days in Cadiz and Madrid. [11]
I seemed to drift about without aim or object, at the mercy of every breeze; my heart wanted anchorage. [4]
But W. would drift about through the mountain gorges for days together, in a purposeless sort of way, until the provisions of the miners ran out, and they would have to go back home. [5]
The chance to do this thing was the reward he received for his gallant and very useful fight at Wortmann's Drift twenty-four hours before. [11]
At night the day's contribution of detraction, innuendo and malicious conjecture would be canvassed in her mind, and then she would drift into a course of thinking. [5]
But what did cross her mind was that these associations meant only evil for Jack, and that to be absorbed in the sort of life that seemed to please him was for her to drift away from all her ideals. [4]
Not that I could see the boat drift, for I could not, the stars being all gone by this time. [5]
And yet he could not tell Jethro that he knew nothing about her, for he was shrewd enough to perceive the drift of the next question. [9]
It drifted, and continued to drift, but at the same safe distance from land, and we walked along abreast it and waited for fortune to favor us. [5]
How did people come to drift into such a strange custom? [5]
What seems very clear is that an evolutionary drift toward the national control of industry has for many years been going on, and that the war has tremendously speeded up the tendency. [9]
These fighters under Byng had had their fill of tactics and strategy which led nowhere forward; and at Wortmann's Drift the day before they had done a big thing for the army with a handful of men. [11]
Yet!--the clouds drift by, birds of passage migrate, the musician wanders singing from land to land, finds love, and remorselessly strips off light fetters to seek others. [10]
The hours went by, and I saw my chances drift past. [11]
Maximilian Cour suddenly blushed in sympathy with Madame Dauphin, who now saw the drift of the Seigneur's remarks, and was sensibly agitated, as the Seigneur had meant her to be. [11]
But on St. Blaise's day, early in the month of February, during a trip to Vogtland, it was at Hof, he was overtaken by a snowstorm, and the worthy man was found frozen under a drift, with his staff and pouch. [10]
The raft had been brought out into the current by French sailors, the fuse had been lighted, and it was headed to drift towards the British ships. [11]
The staff had been blown down, the tent had fallen over them, the drift had covered them, and for three days they had slept beneath the snow, never waking. [11]
This side shall be its opening, towards the lake; and in front of it the fire, so that the smoke shall drift into the hut, and discourage the mosquitoes; yonder shall be the cook's fire and the path to the spring. [4]
The above comments, based on the drift of political practice during the past decade and a half, may be taken for what they are worth. [9]
And perhaps just at this happy stage of the proceedings, the stately figure of Captain Isaiah Sellers, that real and only genuine Son of Antiquity, would drift solemnly into the midst. [5]
And the captain, at last seeing my drift, did the same. [9]
First Wortmann's Drift, and then Hetmeyer's Kopje, and he'll be over the hills and through the Boers and into Lordkop with the rest of the hold-me-backs. [11]
Icebergs float down against its surface-current, and fill all the New-England air with the chill of death till June: after that the fogs drift down from Newfoundland. [4]
The world was a blanket of drift, and down, and glistening silver. [11]

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