We were grubbing away in the middle of a thickish clump of willows where some driftwood from a former flood had caught high among the branches, when my body was seized in a grip that made me half drop upon the sand.

Now and then the reflections trembled and a languid ripple broke against the driftwood on the beach.

All the breakfast vanished, and our shells were thrown about like driftwood in a storm.

If I had made small notches, neither the stick, nor twenty sticks, could have borne themnay, not all the driftwood of all the beaches between this village and the next.

One day last summer at the seashore I saw a tiny boy, starting from the bath-house of his family, laboriously drag a rather large piece of driftwood along the beach.

I myself went down with the rest, but had the good fortune to rise unhurt, and by holding on to a piece of driftwood with one hand and swimming with the other I kept myself afloat and was presently washed up by the tide on to an island.

We withed three others to mine, setting sail with two bits of driftwood for paddles.

Once he began to voice them he was seized by that same mighty current which had drawn them from him in the first place and left them strewn upon paper like driftwood after a flood.