Yes, guilty of driftage as charged.deadsongs. vue.221. From Wordnik.com. [The WELL: Wharf Rat] Reference
Will also get out on the dining room and sunporch roofs today, to remove driftage there. From Wordnik.com. [Yes] Reference
Also they were scrubs – the dirty driftage of the fight game, without honor, without efficiency. From Wordnik.com. [The Mexican] Reference
I see and know and possess incorporated in my consciousness of the mighty driftage of the races in the times before our present written history began!. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 21] Reference
Despite the fact that by his manoeuvre the Arangi had been hove to, he knew that windage and sea-driftage would quickly send her away from the swimming puppy. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER VI] Reference
And here, at the end of it all, I pore over books of astronomy from the prison library, such as they allow condemned men to read, and learn that even the heavens are passing fluxes, vexed with star - driftage as the earth is by the drifts of men. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 21] Reference
There was yet a brisk wind; and for some time our rowboat rocked alongside, industriously bumping the paint off the houseboat, while we sat on the windlass box enjoying the fresh breeze in our faces and watching the driftage catch on our anchor chain. From Wordnik.com. [Virginia: the Old Dominion] Reference
Somewhere in that white anarchy he left behind him, was Surprise Lake -- somewhere, he knew not where; for a hundred hours of driftage and struggle through blinding driving snow, had concealed his course from him, and he knew not in what direction lay BEHIND. From Wordnik.com. [THE MAN ON THE OTHER BANK] Reference
The driftage through the Big House was decreasing. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Lady of the Big House] Reference
Lavina, famed for her good heart even among the driftage of. From Wordnik.com. [The Proud Goat of Aloysius Pankburn] Reference
Fuel coal is also too pure to have been accumulated by driftage. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Geology] Reference
Lavina, famed for her good heart even among the driftage of South. From Wordnik.com. [A Son Of The Sun] Reference
No more man-wrought driftage came our way, but other signs multiplied. From Wordnik.com. [1492] Reference
Also they were scrubs -- the dirty driftage of the fight game, without honor, without efficiency. From Wordnik.com. [The Mexican] Reference
Among the heaps of sea-weed there were sometimes small pieces of painted wood, bark, and other driftage. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1] Reference
I tell you this vagrant fisherman, this wandering preacher, this piece of driftage from Galilee, commanded me. From Wordnik.com. [The Jacket (Star-Rover)] Reference
I tell you, this vagrant fisherman, this wandering preacher, this piece of driftage from Galilee, commanded me. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 17] Reference
Arangi had been hove to, he knew that windage and sea-driftage would quickly send her away from the swimming puppy. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
My father's resting-place had not been invaded by the imperious flood, although a line of driftage, in a zigzag swath, lay near the mound. From Wordnik.com. [Erema — My Father's Sin] Reference
So, instead of making speed through the water toward deep sea, I hove the Elsinore to on the starboard tack with no more than leeway driftage to the west and south. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 46] Reference
This was now exerted to very little purpose, for the reason before assigned; to which may be added, the wreck was now blown up, all her upper works gone, and no hopes of any valuable driftage from her for the future. From Wordnik.com. [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time] Reference
If only I were articulate to paint in the frail medium of words what I see and know and possess incorporated in my consciousness of the mighty driftage of the races in the times before our present written history began!. From Wordnik.com. [The Jacket (Star-Rover)] Reference
Lavina, famed for her good heart even among the driftage of South Pacific rogues and scamps, nursed him around and never let it filter into his returning intelligence that there was neither manager nor money to pay his board. From Wordnik.com. [The Proud Goat of Aloysius Pankburn] Reference
And here, at the end of it all, I pore over books of astronomy from the prison library, such as they allow condemned men to read, and learn that even the heavens are passing fluxes, vexed with star-driftage as the earth is by the drifts of men. From Wordnik.com. [The Jacket (Star-Rover)] Reference
And here, at the end of it all, I pore over books of astronomy from the prison library, such as they allow condemned men to read, and learn that even the heavens are passing fluxes, vexed with star driftage as the earth is by the drifts of men. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 21] Reference
Somewhere in that white anarchy he had left behind him was Surprise Lake -- somewhere, he knew not where; for a hundred hours of driftage and struggle through blinding, driving snow had concealed his course from him, and he knew not in what direction lay BEHIND. From Wordnik.com. [Smoke Bellew] Reference
He was about to gasp his last gasp when the force of the current, as it swung out of the whirlpool, flung Neewa upon a bit of partly submerged driftage, and in a wild and strenuous effort to make himself safe Neewa dragged Miki's head out of water so that the pup hung at the edge of the driftage like a hangman's victim at the end of his rope. From Wordnik.com. [Nomads of the North] Reference
My father’s resting-place had not been invaded by the imperious flood, although a line of driftage, in a zigzag swath, lay near the mound. From Wordnik.com. [Erema] Reference
What, I; with the fires out, a poor bit of driftage upon life’s sea, that I can be renewed and filled with power and made master of circumstances, and voyage happily and safely to the desired haven?. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Lining: Messages of Hope and Cheer] Reference
The clippings had told him one thing; here, like bits of driftage to be put together, a line in this place and half a dozen in that, in paragraphs that enlightened and in others that puzzled, was the other side of the story, a growing thing that rose up out of mystery and doubt in segments and fractions of segments adding themselves together piecemeal, welding the whole into form and substance, until there rode through Keith's veins a wild thrill of exultation and triumph. From Wordnik.com. [The River's End] Reference
And how I remembered the consequent changes -- the paths beginning to form as the goats literally ate their way through the dense thickets; the disappearance of the younger, smaller bushes that were not too tall for total browsing; the vistas that formed in all directions through the older, taller bushes, as the goats browsed as high as they could stand and reach on their hind legs; the driftage of the pasture grasses that followed in the wake of the clearing by the goats. From Wordnik.com. [The Jacket (Star-Rover)] Reference
Mon 29 Sep 03 16: 33 driftage. From Wordnik.com. [The WELL: Wharf Rat] Reference
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