As he talked along, softly, pleasantly, flowingly, he seemed to
drift away imperceptibly out of this world and time, and into some remote era and old forgotten country; and so he gradually wove such a spell about me that I seemed to move among the specters and shadows and dust and mold of a gray antiquity, holding speech with a relic of it!
"What?" said Don Quixote, "cross ourselves and weigh anchor; I mean, embark and cut the moorings by which the bark is held;" and the bark began to
drift away slowly from the bank.
They think it is an easy life, idle away a couple of years; and then, because their funds come to an end or because angry parents refuse any longer to support them,
drift away from the hospital.
He was a good pupil and the hours he spent with his lessons were precious; they made the farm
drift away. To his mind, which was opening like a bud, it seemed that history was the recorded romance of men who were everything but farmers.
She was willing enough, at any rate, to let the subject
drift away.
The yellow trees were mirrored in the placid stream, with now and then a leaf falling on the water, mayhap to
drift away and be used, as Uncle Blair suggested, by some adventurous wood sprite who had it in mind to fare forth to some far-off, legendary region where all the brooks ran into the sea.
Eight out of ten workers
drift away for up to three hours a day - that's 780 over 12 months and an average of PS4,552 in wages.
These cartoons are destroying our norms and language, forcing our children to
drift away from our culture.
"It is important for any business that young people are heard, especially on matters which are at the core of their experiences, like the
drift away from the game by players in their late teens.
A KAYAKER found himself in dif-ficulty in the North Sea after he began to
drift away from the shoreline.
It lasted quite a while, seemed to
drift away into the distance.
There is no joy in growing old no matter what the poets say The gifts of youth we took for granted fade slowly like a summer's day The whispers fSrom the past, the happy times we thought would stay Slip through our failing memories and simply
drift away But life's too short to hold regrets, or yearnings for the past The sand falls through the hourglass and the years roll by so fast So stand your ground and speak your mind and make your presence felt And tackle life with dignity and play the cards you're dealt Keep your spirits high - your stress levels low Don't let an uncaring society grind you down, and most of all, Never despair!