Which preposition to use with adrift

in Occurrences 58%

How long had I been lying there unconscious, adrift in the open boat?

on Occurrences 27%

" Angus, though fallen and misguided, was not entirely unregenerate; a lie sat awkwardly on his honest lips, and now that his feeble effort at deception had miscarried, he felt himself adrift on a boundless sea.

from Occurrences 16%

Thus fairly adrift and kept adrift from the main purpose, there is no vagary impossible to them,churches in which there is no hearing, hospitals contrived to develop disease, museums of tinder, libraries impossible to light or warm.

with Occurrences 11%

And, indeed, I had wished that we were come a greater way downward of the Gorge, but this might not be; for I was all adrift with weariness.

at Occurrences 5%

Baron Gros told me that a boat with some unarmed French officers and seamen got adrift at a place called the Cape of Good Hope, as he was coming up from Hong-Kong.

into Occurrences 4%

"My birthday," he says, in the slipshod, loosely-strung notes by which he has been somewhat grandiloquently said to have "anticipated the labours" of the biographer"my birthday was ominous to my poor father, who was the day after our arrival, with many other brave officers, broke and sent adrift into the wide world with a wife and two children.

over Occurrences 4%

Adrift over Hudson Bay.

by Occurrences 3%

I do not remember, nevertheless, to have ever seen even a floe within the groupnothing beyond large cakes that have got adrift by some means or other.

without Occurrences 2%

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.

for Occurrences 2%

His conscience urged him to confess his mistake, while Satan whispered with a sneer,"Yes, and get turned adrift for your pains, with a rating into the bargain!" "Never mind if you do lose a week's wages," conscience had pleaded, "your hands will be clean," and the workman shrugged his shoulders with a muttered, "Pshaw!

through Occurrences 2%

"The Mary had two boats, and one might easily have got adrift through accident.

under Occurrences 2%

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.

as Occurrences 1%

We had driven all day with nothing to eat but a bit of war bread and chocolate, we were black with dust, there was not a crumb in the place that did not belong to the army, and we sat there in the thickening dusk, almost as much adrift as a raft in mid-ocean, The two armieswagon-trains, that is to saywere crossing each other at that corner.

of Occurrences 1%

And presently she askt me in a very husht voice, whether that I knew where the Lesser Pyramid did be in all that Darkness; for she was all adrift of her bearings, and was as a stranger, because that she had never lookt upon the Land from that place, before then.

amidst Occurrences 1%

And now he's adrift amidst snags, stumps, and rooks, And the Coxswain has just lost his rudderpoor Cox.!

after Occurrences 1%

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.

Above Occurrences 1%

I have cast off the clue of this world's maze, And, like an idiot, let my boat adrift Above the waterfall!I had no message How's this? Isen.

to Occurrences 1%

After he had plundered this vessel, some of them were for burning her, as they had done the Frenchman; but instead of that, they cut her cables, rigging, and sails to pieces, and sent her adrift to the mercy of the waves.

about Occurrences 1%

Just as he really was, he, who was not familiar with such mirrors, could see Count Manuel, housed in a little wet dirt with old inveterate stars adrift about him everywhither; and the spectacle was enough to frighten anybody.

until Occurrences 1%

The weather had now become too thick for us to distinguish anything in the distance and we remained in ignorance as to the party adrift until Saturday.

down Occurrences 1%

This made them hate him more than ever, and they resolved to be revenged; so one day when he was alone in the boat they set it adrift down the river without any oars.

beneath Occurrences 1%

For a week Hiram Evanson, for that was his name, had been adrift beneath a tropical sun.

Which preposition to use with  adrift