"I -- want -- you -- to -- get -- into -- the -- nest," the bird called, speaking as slowly and distinctly as possible, "and -- then -- you -- can --
drift -- ashore, but -- I -- am -- too -- tired -- to -- bring -- it -- any -- nearer -- so -- you -- must -- try -- to -- swim -- to -- it."
The iceberg
drifts slowly, over the black water, through the ashy light.
Rokoff, on the other hand, had used little or no intelligence in his flight along the Ugambi, so that more often than not his craft had
drifted in the slow-going eddies, for he habitually hugged the bank farthest from that along which the hideous horde pursued and menaced him.
'What a thing to do!' said Nikita reproachfully, addressing the
drift and the hollow and shaking the snow from under his collar.
We were not far off the line the wind made with the western edge of the promontory, and I watched in the hope that some set of the current or send of the sea would
drift us past before we reached the surf.
At this rate the flat would fill and sink long before it could
drift to the lower headland.
Fearing they might
drift too far, Dorothy and Ojo now stood up and raised the Scarecrow in their arms, as high as they could, thus allowing him a good view of the country.
Instead we have
drifted, and that drifting has eroded our resources, fractured our economy, and shaken our confidence.
It was a saddened company that
drifted onward through the air toward whatever destination Fate was to choose for them.
Our logs
drifted slowly and at last grounded gently on the bank.
Slowly she
drifted to the southeast, rising higher and higher as the flames ate away her wooden parts and diminished the weight upon her.
And if she
drifts into an unpopulated part of the ocean she may soon become overdue.