It was not late enough to leave the porch, so the talk drifted to Dalton matters.
Then the conversation drifted back to North Birchland.
Illustration] I saw an old cottage of clay, And only of mud was the floor; 'Twas all falling into decay, And snow driftedin at the door.
One night as the snows drifted deep through the vale, While the bleak whistling wind was all dreary and chill, She again sought the house where she first heard a pray'r, And close to the door held her listening ear.
Swiftly as the wind that drove it, the Cloud Horse drifted over the mountain range.
I held on to a spar for a whole day, and drifted to within a swim of Tory Island, where for a whole month I waited to get across.
I became so used to being passed that I ceased to expect anything else, and only counted the days till the blood-red cloud should have drifted past and left me free.
When my overturned boat had drifted ashore, they all set me down as dead, some with regret, some with indifference, some with relief.
I sit beneath a leaden sky, Amid the piled and drifted snow; My feet are on the graves where lie The roses which made haste to die So long, so very long ago.
As purely white as is the drifted snow, More dazzling fair than summer roses are, Petalled with rays like a clear rounded star, When winds pipe chilly, and red sunsets glow, Your blossoms blow.
Over yonder in Yucatan we were too well wrapped up in our own parochial needs and policies to have leisure to ponder much over the slim news which drifted out to us from Atlantis--and, in truth, little enough came.
Trees, squared timber, a smashed and upturned boat of hides, and here and there the rounded corpse of a man or beast shouldered over the swells, and kept convoy with our Ark as she drifted on in charge of the Gods and the current.
The Oquendo, battered and helpless, drifted ashore in flames.
Hobson had arranged to meet us at that point, but, thinking that some one might have drifted out, we crossed in front of Morro and the mouth of the harbor to the eastward.
Dorothy drifted along with them for a few moments, and then again that one thought came to her, overwhelming her.
John thanked him, and then the talk drifted to the games to be held next day, and to the bicycle race especially, where the winner would receive a brand new up-to-date bicycle as a prize.
Paths to the mine and to water had to be dug in the early morning through the snow that had drifted during the night, and this work was added to the boys' regular tasks.
It cracked, severed from the larger part, teetered dangerously and drifted away.
And thus the talk driftedto Hallowe'en, the night when, if old romances could only be believed, there are witches and evil spirits abroad, alive to all sorts of pranks and mischief.
French barquedrifted away, the remaining boats busied themselves with the swimming sailors.
A French pilot-boat drifted near, and the black-eyed skipper cried out, "You fellers look out for ze Alabama.
Just stepped into one of the jolly-boats and peacefully drifted ashore on a dark night?
As the two battling sea-monsters drifted slowly along, a pall of sulphurous smoke hung over their black hulls, like a sheet of escaping steam.
Bobbing and courtesying on the waves, the little Swede soon drifted from view.
And, resting on their spades, they gazed down into the hole where a few leaves had drifted already on a sunset wind.
And a puff of warm air rising quickly out of the night drifted their scent of cloves into his face, so that he held his breath for fear of calling out her name.
They talked, by tacit agreement, of nothing but what had happened before the war began, while the flock of the blown dandelions drifted past.
The scent of the lime-trees driftedat him with its magic sweetness.
And, smiling, he drifted out of the gallery again, blue and solid like the smoke of his excellent cigar.
A wave of the azalea scent drifted into June's face; she felt sick and dizzy.
This might have endured until he returned to earth had not the airman stopped the engines so that they drifted ruminantly in space below the clouds.
And now and again, as the amorous perfume of chestnut flowers and of fern was drifted too near, one would say to the other: "My dear!
Drifted to the edge of consciousness, he hardly knew if it were in sleep that he smelled the scent of a cigar, and seemed to see his father in the blackness before his closed eyes.
If it had not been as swift and darting, Earth must long ago have drifted through space untenanted--to let.
The body was very heavy when he bore it to the top of the field; leaves had drifted there, and he strewed it with a covering of them; there was no wind, and they would keep him from curious eyes until the afternoon.
And the gray shade stalked out again, and stood there in the warmth of the August day, with its scent and murmur of full summer, while the pigeons cooed and dandelion fluff drifted by.
It was falling dark; and in the tremulous sky clouds were piled up, and drifted here and there with a sort of endless lack of purpose.
When the taste as well as the smell had been enjoyed, the rest which followed by the blazing birch-logs that evening was so full of bliss that each camper felt as if existence had at last drifted to a point of superb content.
The boys could well imagine that this would make an ideal seat for a hunter at night, where he might lazily fill his pipe and tell big yarns, while the winter storm howled outside, and snow-flurries drifted against his log walls.
A filmy mist rose from the surface of the water, and drifted by their faces like the brushing of cold wings.
Once or twice during supper the mirth, which had been frozen in each camper's breast by a sight of the drifted wreck of a human life, warmed again spasmodically.
Instead he had drifted and drifted, and then he had met Jennie; and somehow, after that, he did not want her any more.
He would have drifted on with a few mentally compatible cronies who would have accepted him for what he was--a good fellow--and Jennie in the end would not have been so much better off than she was now.
They drifted mentally for a few moments, while Lester inquired after the business, and Amy, Louise, and Imogene.
So this little household drifted along quietly and dreamily indeed, but always with the undercurrent of feeling which ran so still because it was so deep.
During the glacial epoch the whole northern part of the continent was covered with a thick ice sheet, which was continually renewed at the north, and as continually drifted slowly in a general southerly direction.
Campbell, with a life-preserver about his body, stood up, using his oar as a paddle, and boldlydrifted with increasing speed toward the seething pool.
When near the Whirlpool it drifted close to the American shore, Percy, thinking he was in the quiet water on the further side of the Whirlpool, stuck out his head, but closed the aperture just in time to escape a tremendous wave.
General conversation followed, and the twinsdrifted about from group to group, talking easily and fluently and winning approval, compelling admiration and achieving favor from all.
Nearly a week had drifted by, and still the thing remained a vexed mystery.
Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar The company broke up reluctantly, and driftedtoward their several homes, chatting with vivacity and all agreeing that it would be many a long day before Dawson's Landing would see the equal of this one again.
Neighbor after neighbor, of both sexes, followed, and the procession drifted in and out all day and evening and all Wednesday and Thursday.
Still twisting the ribbons of the yellow work-bag round her thin fingers, she drifted into the room.
The ship of his individual fate no longer drifted rudderless or risked danger of stranding, but steered steadily, fearlessly, towards the promise of a secure and lovely harbourage.
She drifted along the pavement, in her rustling petticoats, with the most unusually animated expression of countenance.
On this they could hear that the woman took a step nearer in the deep snow on the boulevard, that had drifted in the recent storm to the lumber.
The boat had drifted against a pile of rocks, which come down to the edge of the sea on one of the two little uninhabited masses of sand and stones, known as the White Islands.
The boat drifted from the rocks, and for some length of time the propeller was motionless.
There was a brief hope that Chester was right and that the motor boat had worked free and drifted down stream, but it was quickly evident that that was impossible.
Many of the old settlers are dead, and others have drifted to regions beyond restraining influences, but still "the Waimea crowd" is not considered up to the mark.
The ice disappeared again as quickly as it had fallen on the unusual ground; it was only where the hail had drifted in large layers that the masses of ice lay for a longer period.
They dashed by hundreds impetuously from the high bank into the deep, rapid stream, on either side of the ford, and drifted with it into the dark overarching wood.
They had such parts of the river as were not drifted with snow to themselves, except for two little boys.
Here and there they passed drifted clearings and little houses sending blue feathers of smoke into the bright air.
She had then drifted high on the bank, when he leaped out of her and reached the ground.
The boat and the raft parted company on the same day, as a brisk gale arose from the westward, and the raft was never heard of more; but it was conjectured to have probably drifted on the island of Borneo, which then bore south-east.
Their strength was renovated, and they were aroused to precautions against being driftedaway by the current.
At last, with her strength utterly gone, she dropped the oars and drifted wherever the wild tide might choose to take her.
For a moment he was floating upon the still waters of sleep, and then he drifted back to shore.
Fragments of laughter and chat drifted across to where Eva was trying to persuade Allan into playing checkers.
The poem he was reading fell fantastically into the tune of the last waltz down which he and Rose had drifted together.
He drifted about aimlessly, fighting against the implacable, and at last resigning himself.
It was about the time when the workers are returning home; they drifted along singly and in crowds, stooping and loitering, shuffling a little after the fatigue of the day.
The crying of children which drifted so mournfully out of the long corridors whenever a door was opened turned to a feeble clucking every time some belated mother came rushing home from work to clasp the little one to her breast.
The men rushed at their work as in a frolic, drifted away again, lounged about the works, or stood here and there in groups, doing as they chose.
God himself had answered her wild appeal for help and pardon, a strong, wide plank drifted to her reach.
But a long and bitter sigh drifted over the grave, sweet lips of Elaine Brooke.
Alone in the wide waste of the ocean, with the midnight stars shining down upon her like the pitying eyes of angels, a friendly plank drifted to her reach.
For the first time since that awful night in the cold, dark waves, she wished that the friendly plank had not drifted to her reach--that she had perished miserably then rather than have lived to find herself in this terrible strait.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "drifted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
