It was in the winter that the boys' greatest hardships were encountered, for they found it necessary more than once literally to carry some of the flock through snow drifts to the ranch.
Great drifts barred his way, the wind, still strong, blew in his face and seemed bent on his destruction, his empty stomach weakened him, and lack of sleep undermined his resolution.
With them were large numbers of antelope, these weaker animals profiting by the ability of the powerful buffalo to break into the drifts and uncover the scanty herbage.
His route was changed almost every day, for the wind formed drifts in different places and blocked the old way ten feet deep over night.
Deep drifts formed everywhere, burying sledges and provisions to a depth of two feet, and the snow piling up round the tents threatened to burst the thin fabric.
Drifts four feet deep covered everything, and we had to be continually digging up our scanty stock of meat to prevent its being lost altogether.
The base of the steep cliffs had drifts ten to fifteen feet high.
This is just the time when woman drifts from them.
It is an instance of what I want to show,--that woman drifts toward the particular because she has been driven away from the general.
He had all he could do to plow through the drifts without wasting any breath in discussion.
But the snow was piling into such drifts against the shore that it was scarcely possible for them to win through.
The sled went slower and slower, passing through the break in the roadside fence and over the drifts toward the river.
An hour goes by, an' the peach ranch party is about through his feed, when this yere Bark drifts up to the table.
On the back of Black Jack's protests the Lightnin' Bug, who's come over from Red Dog for a little visit, drifts in.
We ain't consumed by curiosity regarding the etymology of every stranger that drifts in, and as long as he totes his own pack, does his assessments, and writes his location notices proper, it goes.
I'm hopin' his reverence is up to his gills in drifts back yonder.
Each morning, dragging themselves out into the maelstrom, they took sticks and poked into the drifts for dogs.
He lost some fingers and more toes wallering through them mountain drifts that day, but he never laid down till he brought the boys back.
The snow lay in driftsupon the sidewalk in front of the Brandeis house, except where passing feet had trampled it a bit.
She walked a great deal that winter, often out through the driftsto the little cemetery.
The Brandeises walked home through the soft September night, and the children had to use all their Yom Kippur dignity to keep from scuffling through the piled-up drifts of crackling autumn leaves.
The aisles were drifts of paper against which a squad of boys struggled as vainly as a gang of snow-shovelers against a blizzard.
The consequence is that the roads are crowded, drifts are blocked, marching troops are delayed, and all rapidity of movement is out of the question.
For if the Boers should attack--and even with the Tugela in flood they might know of drifts or have bridges ready--Spearman's Hill could scarcely be held by this handful of men.
Thus the Modder Drifts were won, and now the way to Kimberley was all but open.
The seizure of the drifts was, in the judgment of a competent officer, the crisis of the whole elaborate series of movements which ended a fortnight later in the glorious success of Paardeberg.
At the start Sir Charles Warren's men had to ford the Blaauwkrantz in flood, and the drifts were choked with waggons, carts, and refractory teams of oxen and mules.
There’s nothing I can say but drifts you farther From the one weighty matter.
The world drifts away, And I am left alone with my beloved, Who cannot put me from his sight for ever.
Life driftsbetween a fool and a blind man To the end, and nobody can know his end.
The first faint breeze comes up the tide-- I pause with half uplifted oar, While night drifts down to claim the shore.
Let me tell you about him: You remember that starved-looking shabby chap that we've seen several times plowing past here through the drifts on his way to the village or back again?
But on one side, being wholly unprepared for flight, she was heavily stored with pork and corn, while her other chambers had in some of them heavy drifts of snow, and some only a few men and women and hens.
For four mortal hours we had ground along, and stopped and waited and started again, in the drifts between Westfield and Springfield.
Here the mad gale had rioted and thrown Far drifts of snowy petals, fiercely blown The stalks in twisted heaps: one flower alone Yet hung and lit the waste, the latest blossom born Among its fallen kinsmen left forlorn.
More plodding through drifts high anddrifts low; more leaning from saddles to search anxiously for trace of something besides snow and wind and biting cold.
From six to eight inches of snow fell in a few hours, and in places there were driftsten feet in depth.
The snowfall was heavy, and deep drifts everywhere impeded traffic, especially in West Norfolk.
Use was made of this knowledge to lower the great drifts of snow which had to be removed each season during the construction of the new Bergen railway of southern Norway.
In such positions drifts must eventually continue throughout the warm season and so contribute to the snow accumulations of the succeeding winter.
In still lower air temperatures the drifts enlarge with each succeeding year until they endure throughout the summer season.
Jeannette, shows that the Arctic pack drifts from Bering Sea westward until near the northeastern coast of Greenland.
Within the cirques, driftsof snow are nourished long after the ice has disappeared, and as a consequence the amphitheater walls succumb to the process of solifluxion (p.
Great drifts and clouds of smoke against the windows were urging in and stifling the air.
They could all see the folded paper, with the drifts of dust upon it, just as it had lain for almost a year.
Underneath lay a long, folded paper, much covered with drifts of dust, and speckled somewhat with damp.
Down from the roofs in gusts are hurled The eddying drifts to the waste below; And still is the banner of storm unfurled, Till all the drowned and desolate world Lies dumb and white in a trance of snow.
It was still snowing, and the drifts seemed deeper than ever!
The sun would be shining one moment; the next, great torrents of rain would begin to fall and fierce winds to blow, flooding the crops and carrying drifts of sand and gravel across the fields.
At that point the contractor started three drifts in the three-track section.
These two drifts were continued to the west end of the contract, and were then enlarged to a full-sized heading and timbered, as shown on Plate LXI and Fig.
The relation of thedrifts to each other and to the cross-section are shown by Fig.
Frequent cross-drifts to the north side showed that the rock was nowhere very sound and that, except for a short distance east of the shaft, it was distinctly unfavorable for the wide Three-Track excavation.
Hitching his mare to his lightest buggy, for the roads were rivers, the farmer drove through the slush and the remnant drifts to the corner tavern where Neal had been.
Neal's wife, waiting up for him Christmas night, had made an effort to reach the Bells to ask for tidings, but the wind was frightful and the drifts already beyond her depth.
Holmes, and others--still retain the heavy snow drifts of the previous winter.
Some of these drifts on the mountain sides are hundreds of feet deep and never entirely melt away.
It is fed almost entirely from the springs and snow driftsof the Absaroka Range.
The Yellowstone River has its source in the snow drifts of Yount Peak, twenty-five miles south-east of the Park.
Illustration] TABBY'S TABLE CLOTH The storm kept on all night, and next morning the drifts were higher, the wind stronger, and the snow falling faster than ever.
Winter came, and the settlers fared hardly through the long months, when the drifts rose to the eaves of their low cabins, and the stores, carefully harvested, failed to supply even their simple wants.
After a storm the gullies gave an impression of virgin territory, because the sand lay in drifts like newly fallen snow on which footprints were desecration.
Beyond the limit of the spring tides the sand swept up in drifts against the low cliffs that crumbled like biscuit before an attempted ascent.
The Swabian Black Forest is literally black, save when the winter snow is heavy on the branches of the huge trees and lies in drifts beneath them, covering the soft carpet of fir needles to the depth of many feet.
It lay in great white drifts against the huge rampart of Greifenstein, blown against the rough masonry by the bitter north wind, until the approach to the main gate was a deep trench dug in the white covering of the earth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "drifts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
