Five minutes later the anchor was out of the ground and the Cristobal Colon was adrift and canting.
It was Gordon who took up the story, and his voice vibrated with passion: "The beast took her away and then flung her adrift on the port of Singapore, Barry!
On board the ship the mates leaped from line to line, cutting adrift those that had withstood the fire, and soon the current took hold and moved her towards the entrance.
Mr. Morton may go adrift now and then among the girls, and where's the man that doesn't?
Mary, love, hand me the glass--a mariner adrift on a grating, by the Lord Harry!
I know the sight of that schooner always makes you feel unpleasantly; you cannot forget how she misled you one dark night, and well nigh decoyed your ship ashore, by setting adrift a light in a tub.
To cast us adrift here in an open boat is to consign us to destruction.
A few pieces of pork were thrown to them, and after undergoing a great deal of ridicule, and having been kept for some time to make sport for these unfeeling wretches, they were at length cast adrift in the open sea.
I'm cut loose from everything, and you don't know how terribly adrift I feel.
Then the society went selfishly on in its old channels, unmindful of the young life set adriftagain in a sea of doubt and discouragement, with no hand held out to draw it back from the peril of shipwreck.
Well they knew what it meant to have a gun break adrift in a heavy sea.
It was Peter Tobey, the carpenter's mate, who had befriended him on the cay and who had set adriftthat miraculous cask of food and water.
For men adrift the blaze of it fries them like fish on a grid.
With several other hands Joe had made all secure, because the guns were apt to get adrift in such weather as this and plunge to and fro across the deck like maddened beasts.
Had the hostages been slain and were these the sailormen of the Plymouth Adventure who had been set adrift by Blackbeard?
My grandfather had got him made a gauger; but he was turned adrift for letting a poor man do something wrong about distilling.
I am a castaway, and have been adriftin this boat ten days.
As I sat there, eating and drinking, a solitary individual adrift in the vast expanse of the Southern Ocean, I began to look my future in the face and ask myself what I was now to do.
He was dressed only in shirt and trousers, both of which, rain-sodden and drenched with blood, were torn to rags by the teeth and claws of the leopard, which was still raving outside and doing his utmost to break adrift from his moorings.
My only difficulty at this time was the lack of a light to illuminate the boat compass at night, the can containing the supply of lamp oil seeming to have gone adrift when the boat was capsized.
Thank God, the boats are all provisioned, ready for any emergency, while the water in them was renewed only yesterday, so there is nothing to do but cut them adrift and swing them outboard.
A broken, an emptied boat, Sea saps it, winds blow apart, Sick and adrift and afloat, The barren waif of a heart.
Mrs. Ellison could make no suggestion; but she, too, disliked the thought of anyone in the village being turned adrift upon the world.
I have seen, for some time, that we wanted a younger man, more abreast of the times than White is; but I don't like turning him adrift altogether.
The olde sea wall (he cried) is downe, The rising tide comes on apace, And boats adrift in yonder towne Go sailing uppe the market-place.
When the boat had towed the canoes well out to sea, it cast them adriftand returned up the creek.
Your sense of justice would have been answered, perhaps, if I had turned this bastard adrift penniless and a beggar, stopped the marriage, and taken by strategy the woman I could not win by love.
It was an awful thing to be turned adrift in a world of sin and suffering with this agonizing sense.
Heavy black clouds were adrift in a stormy sky; behind them, the bright moon was scudding.
He was like a waifadrift in unknown waters, a cloud without anchor in a tempestuous sky; yet he felt that night as he had never felt before, that he had suddenly become possessed of another and most painful sense.
A few months elapsed, the woman was turned adrift by her husband's creditors, and then a child was born.
Well, he was a disgraced and ruined man, turned adrift from his father's house, and doomed to see a stranger living there.
From them Scott heard alarming reports that the ponies were adrift on the sea-ice.
Wilson, Ferrar, Cross and Weller had got adrift of a floe, and that no one had thought of picking them up.
If he indeed cut the boat adrift it was doubtless because the battle was going against him and he did this to save me!
Yet suffered you to be beguiled and cast adrift to your great peril!
One morning they had raised a single skiff adrift upon the face of the ocean.
For a week Hiram Evanson, for that was his name, had been adriftbeneath a tropical sun.
They wrote no memoirs and left no trace, save an occasional blackened and blood-stained derelict adrift upon the face of the Atlantic.
Take the gig, if you please, and see if you can cast the boom adriftat its shore end; I will look after matters here meanwhile.
I will cut you adrift at once, madam," said I, unsheathing the long knife which was attached to the belt that Simpson had lent me with the clothes.
In their voyage to the West Indies they plundered a Portuguese bark, tortured the crew, set them adrift in a boat with a small quantity of provisions, and then burnt the vessel.
Vane and the minority were turned adrift in a sloop.
For the first time, vague misgivings crept into her mind as she realized that she had cut herself adrift from all to which she had been accustomed.
To secure himself from being turned adrift when harvest is over he frequently makes a concession in wages.
I'm like a marine adrift on a grating, or an ass in a hay-field.
There was no charge against me, so I walked from the watch-house like a man adrift in an old boat, without oars or food.
Adrift In The Wilds; or, The Adventures of Two Shipwrecked Boys.
Adrift in the Wilds; OR, The Adventures of Two Shipwrecked Boys.
Now he was about to be cast adrift again to face a three days' march in the open, under the bitter frost, and what might await him at the end of it he did not know.
Come adrift from the stiffening quite a strip of it," he said.
X Launched by our ship-wood, float we, once adrift In fancy to that land-strip waters wash, We both know well!
Lie there in likeness of a money-bag, My babe's birth so pins down past moving now, That I dare cut adrift the lives I late Scrupled to touch lest thou escape with them!
For there, in that icy fastness of the north, his mutinous crew bound him, set him adrift in a small boat, and sailed away and left him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "adrift" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
