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The little girl drifted off to dream in her mother's arms.

"I saw you, " Hurstwood said, genially, the next time Drouet drifted in to his polished resort, from which he could not stay away.

All her doubts and fears slowly drifted away like the wind.

The wind drifted the boat toward the shore.

Conversations from his past, or perhaps hallucinations , drifted in and out of his thoughts.

Mr. Wynn: As much as a Western or capitalistic sense has drifted in [to China], there's still a strong sense of what's good for the people.

But Violet drifted alone among the lilies, dreaming of the daring duck who would take her to live in the moat of a castle.

I closed my eyes then, and after a while the ornithologists drifted away, their pale faces bobbing up and down on the black wave of fever.

Periodically, the system should be tested using known good devices to ensure the system has not drifted out of specification.

Luckily, We've drifted to a safe place, but we have to help one another in order to survive in a place like this.

We watched cautiously as the stinky and diamond clear mixture drifted playfully, as if it was alive, towards the pumpkin.

We had drifted somewhat since graduation in 1949, as she stayed in our hometown and I had not.

But as my eye drifted just to the left of that mountain, I saw Macau, with its rising skyline of casino skyscrapers.

The boat drifted, the wind blew in and out of my clothes.

Two of the herons raised their heads to watch as the Shy Maid drifted away from the bank, out into the current.

One of his sixth-grade students, a Kosovo-Albanian boy, had drifted far off the learning grid, resisting his teacher's best efforts.

A song he'd heard on the radio drifted into his head, a woman wanting to burn down a whole town.

It had been no easy matter when he first drifted in mysteriously out of nowhere to their little mountain cottage.

In the same way the attentions of the characters drifted: toward the light, the heat, the sense of place.

We tried to maintain the friendship, and you might think we would have been able to since we had been so close, but we drifted apart.

He and his wife have never had a serious quarrel. Through mutual indifference they've just drifted apart.

after i grew up , there was a time when i drifted . but i wouldn t steal even if i had no money on me.

In the central portion was the vast wholesale and shopping district, to which the uninformed seeker for work usually drifted.

My body drifted up to the surface, I got my head out. I breathed in, at last.

An image of his wife, Leane, and their baby daughter, Alex, drifted into his mind.

Mr. Wang's stout body was covered in cuts scabbed over with blood and pus, and he drifted in and out of sleep while talking to a reporter.

Just as you drifted away from him, there must be tens of other people drifted away from him, but he will remember the one who remembers him.

Upon graduation he drifted for a while, and then returned to his parents' house in southern Japan.

However, he reached the shore finally, and drifted along till he found a low place and drew himself out.

He was sitting upright, his back to me, as though meditating, or gazing in the direction in which the balloon and Harry had drifted.

They waited for the doctor to come in. Beth could not begin to think she had cancer. As her mind drifted off her cell phone rang.

His former wife Bardot, luscious in her bikini, drifted in and out of their home.

something unusual drifted across the Pacific and washed up in Washington State.

Slowly a hand drifted up to brush over the skin of her left cheek.

The heady aroma from her cup drifted into the air and mingled with the crisp evening breeze.

You and I have kinda drifted apart, but you're the only person I knew who lived here in the city.

We ran on the auxiliary till we used up all the gasoline aboard, and then when there was no wind we just drifted.

There was a tremor on leaf and flow-er, which, with the suddenness of lightening, some drifted to the far end of the pond.

As a Schiavone backhand drifted over the baseline, a disbelieving Li fell to the clay and put her hands to her face.

Just as he had drifted into the military, Grant drifted into politics.

The wind was blowing hard; snowflakes, floating like cotton fluff from a ripped quilt, drifted down aimlessly.

I was excited that I wanted to rush over to it, but it drifted from place to place. Suddenly I felt a little dizzy.

Pink tutu and frilly umbrella, both drifted off like a dandelion in the wind.

As I sat in my first college class, my eyes drifted toward the shaggy-haired kid with a Zeta Psi hat sitting in front of me.

I actually played in a friendly against Shrewsbury last Tuesday and started down the middle but drifted out to the left.

Sad to say, after they returned home to the east side of Jordan, they drifted away from God. Finally they were completely lost to Israel.

with snow drifted high under gray skies and temperatures dropping below zero , we longed for spring and wondered if it would ever arrive.

He sat erect in the back of the boat, a slight figure with swarthy skin and long black hair and brown eyes that drifted dreamy.

A sailor, Gonzalo Guerrero, had drifted there on a wrecked ship eight years earlier and was living among the Indians.

But circumcision drifted out of fashion, and by the 1970s it was seen as an unnecessary mutilation, bordering on the barbaric.

Then it was time to go and my reverie had to end. As I began walking again, I drifted back into this time frame, calm and cleared.

They remembered the dark-haired stranger who drifted into their lives and made love to them like some Manhattan sheik.

He was barely able to spit out the tale of the cursed monstrosity responsible for his broken body as his life drifted away.

The paper ship fell onto the surface of the river and drifted away out of sight.

I didn't mean to be a teacher I sort of drifted into it.

You'd see the green beam and points of light every once in a while as a particle drifted through that beam.

It had drifted down until God's Word was not honoured and Christ was not given his rightful place.

His appointment was in my judgement a great mistake and under him the Army drifted about like a ship without a rudder.

Many country girls drifted into cities to seek work. The boat drifted down the river.

It lifted an inch into the air and drifted sideways silently. As quietly as he could.

The boat drifted out to the sea.

barbecued chicken drifted through the White House grounds on Thursday, as chefs prepared for President Obama's birthday parties.

They were in sync for a while, but then they drifted apart.

The boat drifted helplessly along the drain until some people saw him.

She closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep.

But then I immediately drifted right back out into the consciousness -- and I affectionately refer to this space as La La Land .

Some drifted west to India's Andaman islands. Others washed up in Indonesia's Aceh province.

Columbus, he related, had drifted into a "tangled archipelago" of cays off the Zapata Peninsula of Cuba in 1494.

In the sky above him a few big white clouds drifted .

Even in the river rapids, I also believe that the boat drifted across could shore.

Thousands of lanterns slowly drifted out to sea guiding the dead on their return journey to the other world.

Then she turned the light off, snuggled next to me in bed and, resting her head on my shoulder, drifted off.

The wind drifted the leaves across the yard.

The leaves drifted down piece by piece like a song in the autumn wind, like a dance performed in an elegant, free and unrestrained way.

Clement Atlee I used to be Snow White. . . but I drifted.

Meanwhile, the weight of the seeds can be increased by prearranging nutrition, so that the seeds cannot be drifted by wind.

she was abroad for several years, drifted June b returned to his hometown.

After leaving high school vowing never to return home, he drifted around the country like a rolling stone.

A whole hour drifted by, the master sat nodding in his throne, the air was drowsy with the hum of study. By and by, Mr.

My mind drifted to what I could do with my new powers.

In a slightly minor way it happened to me, when I lost interest completely in 'doing' and drifted around for two years.

She was the reason he'd drifted back to this land of desolation.

The plume drifted over parts of the western Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, Northern Europe, and eastern North America.

After his acquittal, Clarence Earl Gideon drifted from one Florida tavern to the next until January 18, 1972, when he died at the age of 6l.

The snow was falling. Big flakes drifted with the wind like feathers.

His eyes lit up when a song from the band warming up next door briefly drifted into the interview room.

In the meantime he drifted, resting and recuperating after the long traverse he had made through the realm of knowledge.

The boat drifted down the river by the convective force of water.

As time has passed, it is pretty clear that you and I have drifted further and further away from me.

The lightsaber drifted so close to his neck that he could smell his hair burning.

The depression only grew larger and darker, and just as I'd done in college, I drifted from one thing to another while feeling lost.

Oh, my God! The car had drifted off the lot and was coasting toward the grassy , tree-lined field below.

After ten years of marriage, the husband drifted away from his wife's views.

Her eyes drifted through the open doorway to the bandit's sword, lying on the grass outside, and they gleamed.

In the ensuing voyage, their mast was broken in the storm, the boat drifted to Easter Island.

Slowly, it drifted down on the coldly wet ground in the street, like a butterfly at night.

Before she drifted off, she said she remembered seeing a box cutter.

These images show icebergs that have drifted unusually close to the coast of New Zealand.

After that, the fragrance of Chinese Jasmine Flower drifted to a wider area along with the popularity of the classical opera.

My creased fingers flipped numerous a card, and many nowadays my exhausted head drifted soured, and a cup would break to the layer.

The larvae drifted until they attached themselves to the clean shells on the bottom.

While Kolesnikov drifted off, the Twittering masses of Russia were either euphoric or in despair, depending on their political leanings.

The comforting sounds of her parents' voices drifted from the kitchen.

He just walked and his mind drifted slowly like a torpid stream.

His ship sink, he drifted into a lived dwarf Island, carpenter fixing his boat, he sailed back home.

Sexy question marks of smoke drifted up to the windows before vanishing.

The person who waits for the Lord has therefore not drifted into a stupor of inaction.

Humans are not strong enough swimmers to have managed that voyage, but skeptics say they may have drifted across on natural rafts .

A cloud of ash from the volcano has drifted southeast across Europe, grounding thousands of flights and stranding passengers worldwide.

Little Sarah drifted off to sleep in her mother's arms.

Then he turned around and rowed back, arriving at his starting point just as Tom drifted by.

It was the most pure and stark of several films about characters who drifted in existential limbo.

Mustard-coloured smoke drifted into the sky and the rivers we passed ran thick with waste and rubbish.

Then Professor Einstein, his whole figure still conveying good will and amiability, drifted away out of sight.

The golden retriever sighed dramatically and drifted back to his dreams of French poodles in heat .

I trailed my hand in the water as the boat drifted along .

The criminal drifted into a life of crime.

As I caressed the smooth surfaces, my mind drifted back through the years, back to my boyhood days.

The radiance of sunrise, like a strip of voluptuous red gauze headscarf, floated and drifted in indistinct outer space.

Sounds drifted up from the square below: snatches of drunken song, the yowling of a cat in heat, the far-off ring of steel on steel.

Those bundled back to Laos this week had drifted to another makeshift camp in Phetchabun province, hoping to claim international asylum.

The current drifted the boat downstream.

That radiation drifted westward, across what was then Soviet Russia, toward Europe.

Gradually filling with water , the boat drifted under the bridge .

If Europe does not choose someone of his stature, it will be the first sign it has drifted back to sleep.

The boat drifted down the river.

She watched the birds as they drifted up into the sky.

The idea that continents broke and drifted apart is known as the hypothesis.

Fixed-wing aircraft flew over the jungles of Vietnam in swarms, dumping the stuff, which then drifted over crops and into villages.

Traveling east, some established the language of India and Pakistan, and others drifted west toward the gentler climates of Europe .

As she passed the villagers, a most marvellous smell drifted down.

The IAA said restrictions would be imposed from 0700 to 1300 BST as a plume of ash drifted across the country.

He confessed he was terrified of being shot down as he drifted over hostile lands.

"Maybe he's already drifted too far to hear, " Busby said.

After Sinbad floated several days on the sea, he finally drifted to a rich island.

Then I wake up, this time thinking of the penguin who, for some reason I could never know, drifted to Chile sea shore.

she had woken early , but drifted a while longer.

The wind drifted the snow across my yard.

Most former Northern Alliance leaders have drifted away from the president.

The occasional croak drifted down from on high as a raven returned to the Temple of Heaven.

The current drifted the boat ashore.

Growing up together, Mitch and Dave were inseparable best friends, but as the years have passed they've slowly drifted apart.

Signs that the Reagan revolution had drifted dangerously have been clear over the past decade.

When I realized this, one night as I drifted unhappily to sleep, it jerked me straight up in my bed!

Modern theorists in his view have drifted too far from the actual world.

The "Ags" have mostly drifted sideways over the last six months.

The big fish had drifted a few feet downstream and lay there finning slowly in the clear water.

They sent out a perfume that drifted through the windows of Semiotics 211.

We drifted into the dining-room where there was some argument as to who should take the head of the table.

The wind drifted the leaves.

After my marriage, Holmes and I drifted apart a little.

Crowds outside the building photographed documents that drifted to the ground and posted some of them online.

While shareholders at past meetings have sometimes probed about Berkshire's operations, the focus has often drifted onto other subjects.

My childhood sweet heart and I drifted apart after I moved to another city.

The weather is just appalling -- oh, drifted back about five miles in the last -- last night.

I know you and I have kinda drifted apart, but you're the one I knew who lived here in the city.

Absolutely thought that the legal inference the uncertainty drifted away the legal pursue definite original intention is improper.

And though she had sworn herself tocelibacy, the enforced propinquity ripened into intimacy and drifted into love.

Having drifted away from God and lost hold on Eternity, I exposed myself to the merciless tides and torrens of Time.

Halls and galleries drifted past: graceful buttresses, delicate arches, fluted columns, terraces and bowers.

Pension reform, including a later retirement age proposed by Mr Zapatero four months ago, has drifted into the background.

The female models were beautiful; he dated a few and fell partially in love with one before she moved to Paris and they drifted apart.

Lincoln's contemporaries(6) noted his left eye at times drifted upward independently of his right eye, a condition now termed strabismus(7).

The horse was lean and lank, Misfortune seemed his lot, He go into a drifted bank, And we we got up-sot!

When the summer , Entwined with sprawling vines , Slowly drifted away, Accompanied by the fallen Cape Jasmine petals .

As the men drifted, six-foot waves broke over their heads every few minutes.

A few sparse, feathery flakes drifted into our slipstream and were swept away.

They had be married for a long time but gradually drifted apart to the time of them separated.

The wind drifted the snow.

Yet whatever Mr Turner drifted into so easily had a knack of turning bad or getting complicated.

He sighed dramatically and drifted back to his dreams.

As Roy's soul left his bodywe all said a silent prayer. It drifted up to heavenand left a hole in the ozone layer.

European stocks drifted lower Tuesday amid concerns that China's latest effort to tighten lending rules could dent global growth.

Tony Blair, once a firm favourite for the president's job, has drifted in the betting.

As the global system for agriculture ran aground, the World Trade Organization drifted into dangerous waters.

'In the U. K. , quite a lot of people drifted into that millionaire band inadvertently based on property prices, ' Mr. Davis says.

They had been married for a long time but gradually drifted apart until they separated .

Initial claims for unemployment insurance have drifted lower recently, suggesting an uptick in hiring.

Eventually, my interests drifted toward macroeconomics.

After graduation my classmates and i drifted apart.

The battered wood from the old boat slowly drifted toward the shore of the island.

The smoke pall drifted away to reveal the blackened shell of the building.

He had drifted through life with the advantage of wealth, never tested by adversity.

Shepushed outward gently and drifted with the current until her feet met the first shelving of a narrow beach.

The merry, frantic din of school rose up around them, louder and louder, as Yemen, fascinating and dusty, drifted farther away.

As I began walking again, I drifted back into this time frame, calm and cleared.

Luckily the punt drifted so that he could catch hold of a willow bough, and pull to the island.

The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.

most frequently, minds drifted off during personal grooming like taking a shower, shaving, and putting on makeup.

The North American plate and the African plate drifted apart, leaving a fissured basin that eventually became the Atlantic Ocean.

Which drifted upward, off snape, who fell sideways onto the floor, blood gushing from the wounds in his neck.

Unfortunately, his company drifted towards bankruptcy.

The faint, coppery smell of his blood drifted toward her.

Actually your simply have not adjusted own, you already sent into exile in careless own, chose drifted with the current.

Over the years, Rosie and I had drifted apart.

To resolve the labor shortage problem, the way to the slave trade in Africa when the storm drifted alone in a desert island with no one.

After a few months he drifted away from the project, only to emerge the following year with Facebook.

Two confirmed bachelors sat talking, their conversation drifted from politics to cooking.

The men began singing, a grave, slow song that drifted away into the night.

Many surviving members of al-Qaeda's affiliates have drifted into smaller Sunni factions under no centralized command.

No vibration happens during the cover of operation, and the aperture drifted is accurate and smooth.

No one in the interregnum seemed to feel final responsibility, and so matters drifted along.

Most probably they were itinerant metal workers and entertainers who drifted west from India in the7th century.

Egypt has always been the center of gravity of the Arab world and because it drifted these past 30 years, so too did the whole Arab world.

Production of the woollen fabrics and clothing that made the region's name has drifted away to cheaper countries.

Abandon: You love, my love, agree in opinion two dependencies, sugary love forever, I drifted between aroma!

Obama is embracing the multilateral test-ban treaty that drifted under his predecessor, George W. Bush.

I was not interested in the concert, but I drifted in for ten minutes.

But from the late 1960s onwards, as the perfume of joss sticks drifted over Western civilisation, yoga caught on there too.

My wrinkled fingers flipped many a card, many times my tired brain drifted off, a glass would crash to the floor.

A balloon drifting eastward; as the wreckage drifted toward shore.

A small boat drifted in during the night, with no one on board.

Most probably they were itinerant metal workers and entertainers who drifted west from India in the 7th century.

In the ceremonious parade, people drifted slowly down the avenue.

Clouds drifted across the vast blue sky, as white as candy floss.

Morrison and Redick have drifted apart since entering the NBA, though they exchange texts every couple of months.

The boy continued to stand by the window, and Andy finally drifted off to sleep.

The conversation drifted from fishing to Kanzius's disease and soon, to his theory.

A small paper boat, slowly drifted over, water absorption, gradually sank, most beautiful things in the world has a valid period.

The ship drifted away into the mist.

Power has drifted from State to the National Security Council and the Pentagon, especially in wartime.

The antibodies that had protected a lot of Europeans the previous winter no longer worked against this "drifted" strain of H3N2.

As anyone who has unwittingly drifted off at their desk will know-tiredness can really creep up on you when you least need it.

I was trying to visualize how to construct a tesseract around a four-dimensional sphere when I drifted away to sleep.

He drifted about the house like a rudderless vessel in a rocky stream.

By 2050, they believe it could have drifted across the earth and into Siberia.

Related: "Slimmer Indian Continent Drifted Ten Times Faster. "

Finally my mind grew too tired to think and I drifted off to sleep.

Even in closely related languages, as they drifted apart from their common origins, nouns often changed sex.

he drifted into the shifting crowd; their nervous shifting glances.

His pale eyes drifted to the Remus John Lupin engraved on the left side of the stone.

My eyes drifted to Bob, who moments ago I had seen, now dancing with his partner.

She finally drifted in two hours after everyone else.

Or has he also drifted since you moved away from your city after your first full time job.

In 1966, she published an authoritative account in Scientific American of how Japanese mariners drifted to Ecuador five thousand years ago.

They found that follicle stem cells (FSC) - one type of ovary stem cel - drifted away from their niche when they carried mutant integrins.

"On both sides of the Atlantic, we have drifted apart" , he admitted.

By evening, the crowd had drifted away, having made their point: the red shirts are back.

This quarrel drifted to a McDonald's restaurant in Lakeland, about 5 miles from the club.

We drifted apart somehow although I still loved him a lot.

He drifted off when he was lying on the sofa watching TV.

My mother put down her sewing and joined him on the bench and then my brother drifted to the piano as well.

Lost in the world of imagination, you may just be lucky enough not to notice you've drifted off into dreamland.

More than sixty years passed; for three years Bodhidharma drifted across the ocean until he arrived in China.

But it also mirrors RIL's return on capital, which has drifted down towards single figures (see chart 1).

A strand of unearthly fragrance drifted in the air.

The rubber raft drifted out to sea.

The island drifted free from Africa 165 million years ago and remains 300 miles off the continent's southeast coast.

Aren't you worried that your colleagues will think you have drifted into pseudoscience?

There were butterflies, small ones, blue and yellow, which seemed to find no flowers to rest on, and they drifted down towards the valley.