As the current swept near the rocks where the deer was feeding, we let our little craft drift quietly in that direction.

The doctrine, that there is no higher law than the written statute, is but one of the symptoms of the steady drift of our leading politicians toward materialism, toward a faith which makes the products of man's industry of more value than man himself, and finds the god of this lower world in the law of demand and supply.

Hyacinth drift.

OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS, INC. Theory of continental drift; a symposium on the origin and movement of land masses, both inter-continental and intra-continental, as proposed by Alfred Wegener, and others.

A piece of steel tube, also slit up to enable a central drift to expand it, answers very well; but the thickness of that part of the tube in which there requires to be spring enough to let the mandrel expand, requires to be sufficiently reduced to prevent the pieces from cracking when the central drift is driven in by a hammer.

It was five days before Christmas that Clark made the great announcement: he had determined, he said, if our splendid northward drift continued, to leave the ship about the middle of next March for the dash to the Pole.

They struggled in the frozen drifts with such small dead trees as they could find.

We had been speculating as to the origin of this solid drift and attached great antiquity to it, but the diggers came to a patch of earth with skua feathers, which rather knocks our theories on the head.

A crack in the gable end let in a sift of snow that had been heaping up a lonely little drift on the bare floor.

The thumps grew lighter and lighter, and the lead-line showed a considerable drift; so much so, indeed, as to require its being hauled in and cast anew every minute.

For me no wild rose in the lane, But only sad autumnal flowers, And falling shadows and old sighs, And melancholy drift of hours!

It was treacherous stuff, beautiful to the eyes of a skater, but sure to be weak, and likely to break up any moment and join the deliberate headlong drift of the masses in mid-current.

A sudden downward drift of the wind brought the barking of the dogs to them clearly.

Had the gale that day blown from the south, leaving other conditions unchanged, only a dull, confused, fog-like drift would have been produced; for the snow, instead of being spouted up over the tops of the peaks in concentrated currents to be drawn out as streamers, would have been shed off around the sides, and piled down into the glacier wombs.

I had, moreover, to lose 500 miles of the eastward drift during the last hour in which I should be subject to it, through the action of the apergic force above-mentioned.

The beach, as far as we could see to the westward, was completely filled up from the water's edge to a height of seventy-five or a hundred feet by enormous drifts of snow, which had been gradually accumulating there throughout the winter, and which now masked the whole face of the precipice, and left no room for passage between it and the sea.

Strictly speaking, however, what I get from gesticulation alone is an abstract notion of the essential drift of what is being said, and

"If I weren't, the men mightn't catch the exact drift of the thing.

While I was suffering from the cramps, and resting, I heard a familiar halloo drift across the water.

" "Hardly," said Roswell, gazing intently towards the nearest island; "hardly; for the most weatherly of the two will necessarily get the force of the wind and the impetus of those bergs first, and make the fastest drift.

Hot blows the wild simoom across the waste, The desert waste, amid the dreary sand, With fiery breath swift burning up the land, O'er the scared pilgrim, speeding on in haste, Hurling fierce death-drifts with broad-scorching hand.

Fluffy drifts of equally exquisite lingerie lay scattered about on chairs, over mirrors, across showtables.

From whence did vegetable and animal life crawl back to the land, as it rose again; and cover its mantle of glacial drift with fresh life and verdure?

Our horses went to their fetlocks in a golden drift.

The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason (that noble spark kindled from Heaven; that princely and powerful faculty, which is able to reach so lofty objects, and achieve so mighty works), not to soothe fancy, that brutish, shallow and giddy power, able to perform nothing worthy much regard.