At seven it stopped and, going out, Paul found himself driftingtoward the house on the hill.
A little while later I was speaking to one of our men and he said some rough actors were drifting in town and he didn't like the way they were talking.
At first that drifting was very slow, so slow that I didn't realize it myself; during the last few months she's been going fast.
We've crossed the dividing line, Elice and I, and we're drifting apart.
The silence--really, the silence seemed to come drifting down like flakes of snow.
Over the gate, across a field, over the stile, into the lane, swinging along in the drifting rain and dusk.
However, she eagerly scanned the shore and the water; but no help seemed to be near, and the boat was drifting on and on.
The other girls looked up, startled, and to their dismay discovered that their boat had slipped its moorings and was fast drifting down the river, nearer and nearer to the current of midstream.
Florence said this as she was watching a chip rapidlydrifting down stream.
That is the fact: we have been drifting about north-northwest.
What you say about drifting so far out of your course strikes me as being a little strange.
But, in spite of her resolution to avoid the subject, Dolly could not help drifting back to Ralph Gowan.
But, day by day, Griffith was drifting nearer and nearer the old shoals of difficulty.
Here and there a black patch marked a drifting ice cake, covered with brush, swept down from some flooded woodland.
A thick icy fog hung everywhere, shrouding even the tall warehouses at the river's edge, and drifting in great, gray clouds over the bridges.
To many observers this latter estrangement seems to be drifting very rapidly towards a social explosion in the British Isles.
But from these we had steadily been drifting all the morning long; so that now no loom of the land was visible.
And alike, the Chamois seemed drifting in the atmosphere as in the sea.
But I started dismayed; in fancy, I saw the stark body of the priestdrifting by.
The air was just chilly enough to render paddling a welcome exercise, and just warm enough to allow intervals of pleasant drifting in the centre of the current when there were no shoals or driftwood to be avoided.
We are now drifting fast by a sandy point, after which there will be no chance of landing,--the tide will take us right out to sea.
I am wrong end uppermost, drifting away with the tide, and ballasted with heavy pistols, boots, tight clothes, and all the straps and strings of civilization.
I hope that we may get one before long, for we are drifting in faster than I like to the land; we will get the cable ranged ready to bring up should it become necessary.
The wind was blowing down the river, but there was barely enough of it to give the vessel steerage way, and without a stronger breeze we should run the risk of drifting on shore.
All these little exquisite things that are so abundant in the world, the gleaming lights and blossoms, the drifting scents!
Ken got out upon the rocks, only to find that drifting the boat round the sharp point was out of the question, owing to a dangerously swift current.
In half a mile of drifting the heat of the sun dried the boys' clothes.
Then the boat swung loose from the branch and, drifting down, gradually approached the shore.
That relieved him, for he was not drifting at the moment into the swift current he heard.
Sitting up, he saw the boat some two hundred yards above, drifting along about the edge of the shade.
Hal took a header right off the ledge, came up, and swam with a few sharp strokes to the drifting boat.
Going down-stream on any river, mostly, would have been pleasure, but drifting on the swift current of the Santa Rosa and rowing under the wonderful moss-bearded cypresses was almost like a dream.
The boys were yelling and crowding down to the shore where Ken was drifting in.
Five more miles of drifting under the glaring sun made George and Hal lie back in the boat, under an improvised sun-shade.
Surely there is smokedrifting across the path," said Mr. Prevost, "and I think I smell it also.
The saffron glow faded from the Pass between the hills, and the north wind drew down into the valley, drifting the manes and the tails of the plodding horses.
This happened in the month of January, when drifting snow filled the eyes of the spectators, who were within hearing distance but could render no assistance.
The dead whale, seventy feet in length, had been found drifting in the sea, and had been hauled ashore by the fishermen.
Opposed to this scene of labor and turmoil was a canoe well offshore, whose two occupants, drifting with the current, lazily fished for the great channel catfish which the negro population loved so much.
We seem to be drifting into unknown places and unknown ways; into a whole world of dark and dreadful things.
We are alldrifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
The sea is tumbling in over the shallows and the sandy flats with a roar, muffled in the sea-mists drifting inland.
Meanwhile the Gadabout was belying her name, as now she was only driftingslowly with the current.
The little Gadabout had been steadily drifting with the slowly moving current and in the dim light it was no longer possible to discern the outline of the shore which Fred and John had been seeking.
Meanwhile, we were drifting rapidly away to leeward, and the full length of our warps was almost paid out; it was therefore imperative that the men on the wreck should act quickly.
The exclamation was forced from me by an overpowering effluvium that at the moment swept on board us from the drifting boat, which was now on our weather-bow, and close aboard of us.
The swirling clouds, the mists, the drifting fogs all appeared to await him, like the gathered hosts of some mighty army, suddenly peaceful until the call of combat.
Afternoon came, and the welcome shelter of a ledge where the snow had drifted far outward, leaving a small space of dry rock,--to them like an island to a drifting victim of shipwreck.
Houston stared gloomily at the skid, at the lake and the small parcel of logs drifting there.
I can not see you drifting on to ruin without longing to save you.
The sunlight drifting through the magnolia blossoms fell upon his handsome, upturned, smiling face and the dark curls pushed back from his white forehead.
I saw you drifting toward a yawning chasm; I stretched out my arms to save you, but you would not heed me.
It was not in human nature to see the young husband whom she loved so well drifting so completely away from her and still remain silent.
She had no premonition that every moment the little boat, drifting rapidly along with the tide, was bearing her rapidly onward toward death and destruction.
The crowd, as if blown apart by a puff of wind, scattered this way and that, drifting into small, grotesque groups to converse together on whatever topic might happen to suggest itself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "drifting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
