It was still early morning when I found myself fairly adrift.

He's just been turned adrift.

We did the last at his own earnest request, for he seemed to suspect we intended sending him adrift, as indeed was my plan, at the proper moment.

The sea all around her was covered with wreck; and no less than three of her boats were out, picking up men who were adrift on the spars.

"Sent them adrift," I answered.

Should we venture into the channel, yonder chaps will be after us with the news of a Yankee, on board of whom they put a prize-crew, being adrift without the men; and there are fifty cruisers ready to pick us up.

"We are all adrift, Miles!"

One fastening snapped after another, until the whole sail was adrift.

We now attacked the wreck forward, for the last time, feeling certain we should get it adrift, could we sever the connection formed by one or two of the larger ropes.

He was too securely lashed, however, to strike adrift, though he was nearly half the time under water.

By cutting adrift the two yards, or by getting them fore and aft, in a line with the water, my rate of sailing might be doubled; and I began seriously to think of effecting this great change.

Cut the yards adrift I did not like to do, their support in keeping me out of water being very important.

I felt as if the poor boy was lost when I saw him swept away from me, by them bloody spars striking adrift, and set him down as one gone from that moment.

The loss of the ship is unquestionably owing to the act of the Speedy, united to our own, in setting those Englishmen adrift on the ocean.

As I passed up the crowded river in my launch on the morning after the first night's bombardment we seemed to be followed by a wave of sounda great murmur of mingled anguish and misery and fatigue and hunger from the homeless thousands adrift upon the waters.

The pirates were at first seized with consternation at discovering their mistake; they had turned their prizes adrift after throwing their sails overboard, and, with only three hundred men for their joint crews, forty of them negroes, were not strong enough to engage the Bombay squadron.

Maybe it's been washed off from some ship, or gone adrift from shore.

The sons of these two magnates are fast friends, but are turned adrift by their fathers for marrying in opposition to their wishes.

After setting the captain and some others adrift, Christian took command of the ship, and, according to lord Byron, the mutineers took refuge in the island of Toobouai (one of the Society Islands).

Ultimately, the guardian Darlemont confesses that he had sent him adrift under the hope of getting rid of him; but being proved to be the count, he is restored to his rank and property.

The prisons of the Visconti have disgorged their victims, cast adrift with maiming that makes life unendurable but does not hasten death.

He first cut painting altogether adrift from mediaeval moorings, and launched it on the waves of the Renaissance liberty.

They were astonished to see methey said they feared the ponies were adrift on the sea icethey had seen them with glasses from Observation Hill.

For all the memories of Manuel's life had been washed away from him, so that these memories were left adrift and submerged in the shadowy waters of Lethe.

The crews, if it was thought not necessary otherways to dispose of them were sent adrift in their boats, and frequently without any thing on which they could subsist a single day; nor were all so fortunate thus to escape.