With him gone it seemed to her as if she would be hopelessly adrift on perilous seas.

Adv. separately &c adj.; one by one, severally, apart; adrift, asunder, in twain; in the abstract, abstractedly.

In a trice the black and white spotted cats, who seemed to be common sailors, had tied the False Hare's paws behind him with his own string, lowered him into the mice's little boat from which they had already removed the oars, gave it a push, and sent him cruelly adrift!

or helplessly adrift on the lake?

He was mentally adrift upon the Hints and Helps to Young Men in Business and Social Relations, which had suggested to him his present enterprise, when the appearance of a second youth, taller and broader than himself, with a shock of light curling hair and a crop of freckles that advertised a rich soil threw him a lifeline.

A very large proportion of these have been veritable mongrels, not worth the value of their licencesdiseased and maimed curs, or bitches in whelp, turned ruthlessly adrift to be consigned to the oblivion of the lethal chamber, where the thoroughbred seldom finds its way.