"Once I begin to catch the full drift of new studies I believe that I will overtake some of my classmates who showed a keener comprehension at the first.

What witch had duld my sense That such a stuped Lethurgie should sease My intellectuall faculties they could not Perceive this drift!

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

He saw the drift of my argument, and being of course unaware of how much I knew, he was still in fear of me.

He turned again, understanding now the drift, if not the inner meaning, of that summons that had come.

Roswell Gardiner stood on his own quarter-deck, anxiously watching the drift of the other schooner, as she drew near in her laboured way, struggling ahead through billows that were almost as white as the breakers that menaced them with destruction to leeward.

Doctor Danvers was a little puzzled by the interrogatory, and admitted, in reply, that he did not comprehend its drift.

Cautious and crafty he is, certainly, but he follows closely the westward drift of the red men, and when opportunity comes he spares not at all.

she would be sure to awake, as from a dream; and before she should awake, he would let her husband know their drift, and he should come in the night, and bear her thence to Mantua.

Look, sir; the floe has reached the rocks already, quite near her; and it does not stop the drift at all, seemingly.

They are of some use and no one would desire to see them dropped, but they will not of themselves stem or turn the drift of opinion.

A north-easterly snowstorm was blowing furiously, straight up the St Lawrence, making Quebec a partly seen blur to the nearest American patrols and the Heights of Abraham a wild sea of whirling drifts to the nearest British sentries.

" The boys at the time could not gather the drift of the conversation; but a month later, when their knowledge of the language had greatly increased, Olga, when driving in a sledge with Jack, enlightened him as to the position in which they stood.

The leader stamped lightly on the litter to put the flock in motion, suddenly they took the drifts in those long light leaps that are nearest to flight, down and away on the slopes of Waban.

It flung blasts of wind, laden with snow and sleet, against the log walls and piled drifts round them almost to the eaves.

The messengers further stated that on the thirtieth, with Stanton as leader, and despite the falling sleet and snow, the forward section of the party united in another desperate effort to cross the summit, but encountered deeper drifts and greater difficulties.

He could scarcely recollect a word of his part, but he remembered the general drift of it, and had ready wit enough to extemporize.

One who ventures to look for it finds the immediate source of the spring freshetsall the hill fronts furrowed with the reek of melting drifts, all the gravelly flats in a swirl of waters.

But it revealed drift on drift of snow piled high around the huta hopeless, uncharted, trackless sea of white lying below the rocky shores to which the castaways still clung.

I estimated the drift of the wreck at a knot an hour, including the good and moderate weather; and, allowing for that of the ship itself, I supposed it must be, by that time, some twelve miles to leeward of me.

And it sang, Light and low, that mother's song; And the master, staunch and strong, Heard the sweet strain drift along Softened, thinned, Heard the tightened cordage ringing Till it seemed a loved voice singing In the wind, The wild November wind.

But I can't fathom his drift; which is the more unaccountable since I have it on pretty good authority that the ring is cinching the other companies right and left.

But you mistake my drift.

The dead stillness of the day vanished before a hot land breeze, and Stella, as she felt the launch drift, knew by her experience on the lake that they were moving offshore.

The other at once arose, and, opening the door of the shed where they slept, found a drift as high as the farm-house already heaped between them and its walls, a distance of only fourteen yards.