driftage

IPA: drˈɪftʌdʒ

Examples of "driftage" in Sentences

The driftage through the Big House was decreasing.
Lavina, famed for her good heart even among the driftage of
Also they were scrubs – the dirty driftage of the fight game, without honor, without efficiency.
I tell you this vagrant fisherman, this wandering preacher, this piece of driftage from Galilee, commanded me.
I see and know and possess incorporated in my consciousness of the mighty driftage of the races in the times before our present written history began!
Despite the fact that by his manoeuvre the Arangi had been hove to, he knew that windage and sea-driftage would quickly send her away from the swimming puppy.
Elsinore, this time due to me and my own stubbornness, is rolling in the wind and heading nowhere in a light breeze at the rate of nothing but driftage per hour.
So, instead of making speed through the water toward deep sea, I hove the Elsinore to on the starboard tack with no more than leeway driftage to the west and south.
The sunset fires, refracted from the cloud-driftage of the autumn sky, bathed the canyon with crimson, in which ruddy-limbed mandronos and wine-wooded manzanitas burned and smoldered.
And here, at the end of it all, I pore over books of astronomy from the prison library, such as they allow condemned men to read, and learn that even the heavens are passing fluxes, vexed with star - driftage as the earth is by the drifts of men.