Not a success at school, he drifted from job to job before following his mother into drumming as a career. |
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I don't know what happened, I guess in the long trek through my ever changing moods we sort of drifted apart. |
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There is no grim diagnosis of their relationship, no claim they had drifted apart, no mention of divorce. |
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The couple, expecting their decree nisi next month, have drifted apart in recent months. |
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Loud snores drifted over from one side of the room as someone had become so relaxed they'd fallen asleep. |
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The white of the barren room was a stark contrast to the blackness of the hole, up through which drifted faint scuffling sounds. |
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Meanwhile my thoughts drifted and sifted, meandering here and there as I thought about the people walking into the building, all dressed up. |
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During his latest round of meaningless words their faces had drifted closer. |
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I basked for a while in the warmth, breathing deeply as my stresses drifted away. |
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The first few measures of music drifted easily through the air, reaching Jynx's ears and beckoning her to find its source. |
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As we were getting accustomed to the unusual topography, a pair of bottom-dwelling juvenile batfishes drifted lazily by. |
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The sad melancholy drifted through the speakers, and the two of them sat in silence as the song floated through the room. |
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Sweetened by distance, the melancholy tones of a shepherd's bagpipe drifted on the breeze. |
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And so she might have drifted timelessly, until a greater awareness touched her. |
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He was often dazed and drifted out of his senses while staring emptily into nothingness. |
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Grain by grain, the vast foundations, the beetling escarpments, the high domes in air are crumbled away and drifted into the valleys. |
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He was baptized in a Methodist church at age 14, but soon drifted into agnosticism. |
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The conversation turns to other topics, but by that point I've drifted off into my own thoughts. |
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Numerous specific shop-floor situations generated anger and easily drifted into aggressive or belligerent acts, either verbal or physical. |
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We drifted, blind-casting for 30 or 40 minutes, and I caught a 25 incher on a Spit'n Image topwater plug. |
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Tom swayed on his backswing because his hands drifted too far away from his body, pulling his torso with them. |
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The sound of the keyboard clicking furiously drifted over the phone again as he worked. |
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The ship was beset by pack ice and drifted south for 12 months, becoming the first exploring vessel to winter south of the Antarctic Circle. |
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The ship was beset and drifted for months in bitter cold, heaved upon a mound of ice. |
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The Antarctic winter closed in before Deutschland could escape to lower latitudes and the ship was beset and drifted for nine months. |
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The mildness of autumn drifted on to the beginning of July, and a delay of similar duration. |
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My eyes drifted to my window, and fell on the old tree house Scott and I had begged our dads to build when we were kids. |
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Police say the 17-year-old driver was paying more attention to his cell phone, less attention to the road when he drifted into the bike lane. |
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Laughing in triumph, Shanza had laid back and squirmed to get comfortable, then drifted off again, his sleep successfully dreamless. |
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Their eyes got very large as something massive drifted through the depths beneath them. |
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There was a heavy swell and they were caught by the tide. The small engine on the boat made little impact, and they drifted. |
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It may have been due to her diabetes or a momentary lapse of concentration that she drifted across the road. |
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Her face was covered with a sickly-sweet smelling cloth and she drifted into unconsciousness. |
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First cast, the fly landed lightly, then drifted downstream for about three yards. |
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The Marine's eyes blazed fiercely, her lips set in a grim line as her hair drifted, hiding the bandages on her face. |
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Smoke rose from a hall in the roof and drifted with the wind, twisting and furling in on itself until you were unable to see it. |
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The entire family had drifted off after Grandma's death, most of them settling in cities and the house had remained neglected and uncared for. |
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Her hair drifted around her face in the soft, chilly breeze, almost purple in the bluish night. |
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Slowly he drifted off into unconsciousness, until finally he went to sleep altogether. |
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Police had stopped drunks from hanging about but, over the last couple of months, they have drifted back. |
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The next moment, the musty smell of stale tobacco and ancient dust drifted through the darkness, and he half-opened his eyes. |
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I closed my eyes as the sun began to set and drifted off into a deep sleep. |
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It wouldn't surprise me if we just simply drifted apart because deep down neither of us think that it's going anywhere. |
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The last thing I remember before I drifted off to sleep was the annoying slurping noise of him sucking on his thumb. |
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Alongside him, Denis Glennon drifted outfield but Dublin bottled him up wherever he went, limiting him to just a point. |
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More recent comments have drifted in the direction of the threat to social partnership being created by unreal pay expectations. |
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My gaze drifted to the first guard, his eyes still wide open, forever gazing but unseeing, and I shook my head. |
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Gregory snarled, but gradually, his temper faded away, and the rage he felt became like steam, and drifted up into the cloudy sky. |
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Flying clouds of spray from the bow wave made the wooden planking on the deck slippery as it drifted across the boat. |
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They whimpered and whined as they raised their noses to the air and snuffled at the smell that drifted into the clean air. |
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The wind's temper gradually drifted away until there was nothing left but a soft breeze. |
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Little puffs of smoke drifted up from the table as we shyly learned to wield a soldering iron. |
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The pupils said at least half the school had left but some had drifted back. |
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Pete Brown, the village fire chief, organized the all-girl brigade as men and teen-age boys drifted away. |
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The line drifted down nicely but I wasn't sure if I should concentrate on the trout or the indicator. |
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Made up of minute shards of volcanic glass, the ash clouds that drifted across Nebraska from the west were abrasive and dangerous. |
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Along the way today, I did have a bit of bother with my 11-tooth sprocket, so I drifted back for a wheel change. |
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The pair were rescued 28 miles from Port Gregory on Tuesday April 15 after their cabin cruiser drifted off to sea. |
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Avalonia drifted rapidly northwards, opening the Rheic ocean until it collided with Laurentia in the Silurian during the Caledonian orogeny. |
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Estelle drifted off into an uneasy slumber and was awakened sometime during the late night by a low voice calling out to her. |
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Her gaze drifted through the curious faces all trained on her and she tightened her grip on her oversized black handbag. |
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During some of the more mellow bits the bloke at the front drifted back and had a chat. |
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Freshly cooked mekitsa steamed on our plates and a delicious aroma drifted up from the freshly brewed coffee. |
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His father drifted in and out of jail, and his mother blew welfare checks on crack. |
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Some of the crew tried to get ashore in Carley floats but were blown past the island, drifted miles to a lee shore and where found by Icelanders. |
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The haunting melody drifted up towards them, sounding eerily like to an owl hooting at nighttime. |
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She was probably listening to her iPod and drifted off to cuckoo land again. |
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This is only smoke haze, drifted down from the frightful bushfires burning elsewhere in Victoria. |
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Inside his head he drifted through memories that had been put there and that this time had stuck. |
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As my body began to warm up and relax, exhaustion caught up with me and I drifted in and out of a feverish half-sleep. |
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First, it tells me that the outboard on the dory used by the Scottish divers kept stopping and the dory drifted away from the wreck. |
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As the thunder of the guns finally subsided, thick clouds of sulfureous gunsmoke drifted away to reveal a ghastly scene of carnage. |
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A year later Jones left school with no qualifications and drifted into washing pots and pans, hod carrying, and boozing. |
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Angels RF Tim Salmon had drifted off third base, anticipating a break for home. |
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Coco, a mixed-breed chow, drifted alone on the powerboat for three days before being rescued in good shape. |
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In summer, butterflies drifted between trenches, birds sang, clouds shifted in the sky, the sun moved slow as an hour hand on a clock. |
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Ryre's mind drifted back into the present as his horse clip-clopped its way to the front of the livery stable and stopped. |
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It did help me sleep, and also left me feeling rather peaceful and pleasant as I drifted off. |
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She stared at the muscles that bulged in his arm and that would not relax, and then her eyes drifted to the flaring, ice blue Blade. |
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Pack ice formed on the surface and drifted in floes until the water levels dropped and it lodged on higher ground. |
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He drifted out from the field at around 800 feet, found some lift, and took that to cloud base at 3,500 feet. |
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Accordingly, we dissolved in clumps of threes and fours, and drifted across the level excavated plain towards the pools of shade. |
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Her mind drifted back to that day at school as she wet her hair and applied the colouring. |
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Without his directorate, and no longer having the urgent support of the prime minister and the commander-in-chief, he drifted. |
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Rachel's eyes drifted to Samantha's and she just melted in the pool of concern and worry in them. |
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However, discussion usually drifted well away from the confines of these topics. |
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The light from the torches played across her face as she drifted into slumber. |
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In Andrew's day they had drifted up and down the firth lifting nets dripping with moonlight and herring. |
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She did not practice at all, and immediately drifted into a restless and fitful sleep, though she did not know why. |
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For the first year the column was mainly in Irish, but it drifted into English and continued thus exclusively. |
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It drifted down from the heavens, little white nothings floating across your windows, settling on lamp-posts and windshields. |
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Finally, though, he drifted off, lulled by the noises that floated through his newly open window. |
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His voice drifted off as he floated over to the kitchen and opened the refrigerator, cabinets, and the pantry. |
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As she stood in line waiting for her cotton candy to be spun, her eyes drifted over to one of the games booths. |
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She drifted around the countercultural communities at Newbury, where she spent four months, and Faslane, where she joined the peace camp. |
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The smell of frying meat drifted out of the food hall where another celebrity chef and author, Clarissa Dickson-Wright, was signing her books. |
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It's a new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about. |
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That was the last thought that crossed his mind before his mind shut down and he drifted into blissful sleep. |
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The next thing I knew, a balmy breeze played across my face, and the soft cries of birds drifted to my ears. |
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A cumulonimbus has drifted over the spires of downtown, where it hangs like a vast gray anvil. |
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He took precise aim with a lob from the corner of the box but it refused to curl in and drifted harmlessly across goal. |
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Telli furled the sail as they entered its mouth and they drifted up to a small jetty, timing it perfectly so they had no need to use the oars. |
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The rich, earthy smell of the shampoo Kia always used drifted from her golden hair, tickling the inside of his nostril. |
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Down-stream slowly drifted a long string of galiots piled with crimson cheeses. |
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Mohan's thoughts have drifted back to India, his homeland, to Kaveri Amma, the woman who was his dai and looked after him when he was growing up. |
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Got home threatening to binge on chocolates but only managed to down one praline before my vodka-soaked attention drifted. |
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Properly chastened, he drifted to the rear of the empty classroom and watched dust motes twirl in the sunlight dappling the room. |
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My gaze drifted past a familiar head of blond hair and I immediately darted my eyes back in his direction. |
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Voices drifted out from the trailer and I pricked up my ears in spite of myself. |
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In the rain, they could not restore their composure and the match drifted to a draw. |
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I drifted across the United States in my early 20s and like many Glaswegians, have an unrequited love affair with the country. |
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My generation of marriage delayers drifted into this period without any real understanding of its value or meaning. |
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One of the airmen landed in the river still in his ejector seat but was able to deploy his dinghy, while the other drifted off downriver. |
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The ashes and the smoke from the devastation drifted through the air throughout the city for days after the tragic event. |
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Back in 1996, just after I graduated college, I drifted for a time rootless and aimless. |
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Billowing clouds of steam and smoke drifted and eddied, obscuring then revealing the tormented reddish rock of the opposite wall. |
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Illuminated only by the fire, her figure shrouded in diaphanous clothes, she drifted in a nimbus of copper light. |
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The smell of cooking drifted up the stairs and we descended with stomachs grumbling to the traditionally decorated restaurant. |
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I was ensconced on the sofa reading the paper when its shrill beeping tone drifted down the stairs. |
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Through the open window, the sounds of distant laughter drifted from the resort. |
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One of his hands, though, drifted to the leather duster she still wore draped about her body. |
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Since comedienne extraordinaire Joan Rivers drifted back to the United States, Edinburgh has been a much less entertaining place. |
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It wasn't long before he drifted off to sleep, dozing peacefully like a little angel. |
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His eyes fell shut as he drifted off into a light doze, waiting for nightfall. |
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It helped paint a picture in my mind where for a moment I drifted off in a dream of great adventures to come. |
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I drifted off to sleep with those thoughts on my mind and dreamed about nothing. |
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I drifted off to sleep, with the light from the fishtank lulling me into dreamland. |
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Then, the medication overtook him and AJ drifted off to a pain-free, dreamless sleep. |
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He attempted to seal the points with a last second long range drop kick, but it drifted just wide. |
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We finally drifted into waist-deep water and dragged the boat onto the beach. |
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They'd started moving downwards when the sounds of shouting, feet, and equipment jangling drifted up. |
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His soft brown eyes slowly drifted to meet my very confused and puzzled gaze and with a simple wave of the hand gestured for me to take a seat. |
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Flotsam and jetsam drifted from the yacht, some having already washed ashore. |
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I remembered picking up a rubber johnny as it drifted past me and holding it up to the other volunteers, who all recoiled in horror. |
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I thanked her with my eyes and slowly drifted off to sleep as the car jolted into motion. |
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The vessel put about on the other tack, but for want of wind, or not having sail enough, she drifted into the ground swell towards the beach. |
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For nine months they drifted in an open boat across the Pacific, surviving on rainwater and raw fish. |
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Over the course of 18 months, I drifted slowly from 220 toward 170, adding in light exercise. |
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The smell of fresh breads, wet ink, melting glass, new silks and a lot of currency drifted about from the many open stalls. |
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On one dive, as we drifted along with the current, passing the school of hammerheads, an 8m whale shark came out of the blue towards us. |
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Jake accepted the pole from Abby, and the two quietly watched the whitecaps in the bay, while the clouds lazily drifted overhead. |
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Australia might still have snatched it but Burke's late penalty drifted inches wide of the upright. |
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Avenue continued to press forward but were snatching at long-range efforts, most of which drifted wide of the target. |
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Three hours later, the American aircraft carrier, the U.S.S Wasp, drifted into position. |
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The kick drifted wide of the posts and the visitors' place in the final was secured after a game that neither side deserved to lose. |
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But as the scent from the fresh kill drifted towards them, the predators gave way to its intoxicating nature. |
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The elongated stars drifted by as the ships chronometer counted down to zero. |
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His brow wrinkled as his thoughts drifted back fifteen years ago, to events that were forever etched into his memory. |
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The fly half had two attempts at levelling the scores with long range penalties from inside his own half which drifted wide. |
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Then, he also gave in to the sandman and drifted off to his own la-la land. |
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After stretching my limbs as far as they could go, I completely relaxed my muscles, snuggled with my pillows and drifted back to sleep. |
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Finally she drifted off to sleep, just as they left their tent to go and relieve Tom and Jay from their duty. |
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I left, drank my hot chocolate and so to bed with disappointed musings as I drifted off to the land of Nod. |
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One land mass, which eventually separated into Africa and South America, drifted south, while another moved north. |
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Our relationship started well, descended into hate-hate, recovered somewhat to love-hate and, latterly, has drifted into respectful acceptance. |
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Nathaniel drifted off, his green eyes glimmering and a spark of something unreadable flashed over the leaf-green irises. |
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On both occasions I visited, regulars drifted in and out to shoot the breeze at the counter with the owner. |
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I closed my eyes, Dolly snuggled up against my legs, and off I drifted, to dream of potatoes and good rhubarb pie. |
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Finally, three of them drifted away, strolling off in different directions, most likely intending to hide or lay low till five o'clock. |
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She sat by his bed and watched him as he drifted in and out of a light, dreamless sleep. |
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Abbey drifted off, the warm sun and gently rippling water lulling her into a light sleep. |
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The city noises drifted him into a light sleep until the cab driver's voice awoke him. |
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She acknowledged his words with a nod, then drifted into a light sleep for a little while. |
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Just as she had drifted into a light sleep, the cordless phone beside her rang, waking her. |
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That suggests that the eastern part must have rifted off at some point and drifted away. |
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Cody was in the middle of a Behind The Music episode on Linkin Park when the door bell's irritating ring drifted to his room. |
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If your receiver drifted out of sync, the picture dissolved into meaningless dots and lines. |
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The sky was clear and filled with stars and the fragrance of the white roses drifted through the air, filling the night with mystery and romance. |
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Tiny gardens of moss and liverworts flourished where spores had drifted in from outside and settled under the warm glow of the cave lights. |
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Tyler, though, drifted into a group of loners and misfits who, if they had social events, did so beyond the school's compass. |
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Someone had opened a window and the cool morning breeze drifted in and ruffled the white hospital curtains. |
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She rubbed his head till he fell asleep again, and she soon drifted off to sleep once more. |
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The busy castle sounds drifted away, and a soft wind rustled through the leaves of the apple trees, stirring up the heady scent of sage and mint. |
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At daylight, the vessel was located on her beam ends, lying on her side where she had drifted. |
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Her mind wandered from one area to another, until the sandman finally came and she drifted off into a deep sleep. |
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Soon, we drifted into the comfort of two experienced aviators, and basic definitions weren't necessary. |
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Soon after, I drifted off to sleep and only awakened just as we were all entering the house again. |
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As he spoke, one hand casually drifted toward the cigarbox bulging with dollar bills. |
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The outbreak was blamed on shoddy backland development which had grown up to house the migrant poor who had drifted into the town. |
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Some of the media drifted closer, scenting information the way sharks smell blood. |
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The spacecraft drifted about 200 meters away from the stage before starting a series of maneuvers. |
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As we plodded out into the garden about ten o'clock this evening, a thin layer of dark cloud drifted across from the south-east. |
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A slow, romantic ballad drifted into the air and the crowd turned to look at them. |
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Hot-air balloons were released and one drifted into some women dressed as Dixie Belles. |
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The smell of sulfurous marsh gas drifted over the stockade to mix with the smell of disease and spoiling food. |
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The Maritime and Coastguard Agency said the 170-metre semi-submersible barge had since drifted into Norwegian waters. |
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Within minutes the aromas of a three-course Thai meal cooked on the double gas burner drifted across the waters. |
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Aided by the swift current, we drifted quietly downstream watching the rich assortment of wildlife along the way. |
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One after another the tiny balls of bread fell, hit the water and drifted downstream. |
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We got up each day, put our boats in the water, and drifted down the river. |
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There was a particular spot that I loved, on the bridge over the river, where ghostly whirls of mist drifted lazily over the water's surface. |
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During the mission, our unattended football rolled into the water and drifted downstream. |
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The new trainees drifted in different directions as they left the landing strip. |
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Four hundred odd people drifted in and out last week, and during this crazy summer, it's shaping up to be a welcome oasis of calm. |
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We have known each other for years but drifted apart when they moved out of our neighborhood. |
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The echo of a soft knock found its way to Rose's ears as she slowly drifted awake. |
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When Fredi finally hung up she noticed that Kelly's attention had drifted, so she took this moment to watch her lover. |
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I once again drifted off into a different plane, not paying attention to what was happening around me, never mind on the tennis court. |
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His mind drifted away from the situation at hand as he allowed himself to feel the extent of her devotion. |
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She paused and glanced at me as though to check that my attention hadn't drifted again. |
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After a while, the boys drifted from the subject of math and started talking about other things. |
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My sentence was way too long for him and his attention had drifted to a potential fight that was about to ensue near the entrance. |
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As the game kicked off, winter threatened to intervene as snow drifted across the ground but fortunately it remained light. |
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I traipsed outside and cleared out about a foot of snow that had drifted into the dish. |
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Fairly flying, he followed the fence along, watching for a place where the snow had drifted up high enough that he could step over the wires. |
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Snow had already drifted up on Old Hank's truck and the white and red pickup he'd told her about was nearly covered. |
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The snow had drifted on the ground, swelling up against trunks and rocks, and parchment thin beside the water. |
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Morning sun glared off snow drifted up to a metre against the walls in places. |
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After the conquest, the Wall became largely irrelevant to these victors, and drifted into eclipse. |
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And we got to the next exit down the road here and we went to pull off, and the snow had drifted up, and we were stranded there. |
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I lived in a two room plywood-floored apartment often inundated with big hunks of black soot which drifted into the unscreened windows from an absolutely undetectable source. |
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I chuckled lightly as one of the lower balloons disengaged itself from the pole and lazily drifted upward, zigging and zagging on the warmish breeze. |
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As I dunked the teabag into and out of the boiling water a couple of times, I couldn't help but overhear the strains of a one-sided conversation that drifted into the room. |
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The snow drifted around them, making the entire scene look unreal. |
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She says the party has drifted away from roots over past 10 years with the leaders taking counsel from personal advisers and consultants instead of the party itself. |
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According to eyre, the portrayal of the Vidal character in Terre Haute has drifted away from mere caricature. |
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We had a very intense crosswind on this particular heading, and by the time I had fully engaged the bombsight we had drifted considerably south of my chosen position. |
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I was lying down to rest for a moment, and I must have drifted off. |
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For the last three nights, spectacular electrical storms have drifted over the city, threatening a downpour that finally arrived with a vengeance last night. |
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He was picked up nine miles south-east of the Isle of Man by a merchant vessel after his life raft drifted for about 20 hours from close to his home port of Kilkeel. |
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Once we reached the library, we three signed in, and Kelsey surreptitiously drifted away, fetching the large tome and bringing it to the room where we were doing our shift. |
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I don't know which one of us drifted off to sleep first, but I looked down at one point to see that she had fallen asleep, her head pillowed on my shoulder. |
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They demonstrate just how far the old allies have drifted apart. |
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She drifted back down to sleep, the warmth felt like slumber. |
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The lady's clothes seemed to fill the whole carnage, and out of this little padded box there drifted a perfume of orris, an indefinable scent of feminine elegance. |
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As the smell of garbage drifted through the air, she wrinkled her nose in disgust. |
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When any centre-left party drifted rightward, it always comforted itself that its core supporters would stay loyal because they have nowhere else to go. |
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Unlike the base vehicle, the outriggers stayed steady and well above the track surface, plus the truck drifted slightly at the apogee of each directional change. |
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He drifted by, a silent specter, a shadow of what he once had been. |
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The perilune slowly decreased to about 300 km and the apolune increased to about 3000 km, while the argument of perilune drifted around the south pole. |
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Though it could pull one car, smoke from the diminutive machine drifted through the car, choking out the passengers until an extra-tall smokestack was applied. |
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The bright rays of the rising sun filtered through a stained glass window at the room's far end, revealing the large amounts of dust which drifted about. |
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Mooney quickly inflated his life raft, sent out an SOS signal and drifted for fourteen days before he was rescued. |
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I became less interested in pure television news and drifted into documentaries as a freelancer. |
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Shouts and chants went up from the crowd as the lights drifted nearer. |
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Little explanation so far has been offered as to why he was left for so long on his vessel as it drifted on the high seas before a second helicopter was sent out. |
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A 6.5 m boat, formerly used as a commercial crayfishing vessel, drifted from Flat Island near Great Barrier Island and beached in Boulder Bay on Whatupuke Island. |
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Delicate snowflakes drifted down to land on a head of long blonde curls. |
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Driven by a penetrating east wind, it drifted until every hollow and depression was filled and the landscape assumed the appearance of a vast white prairie. |
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We drifted past a pair of mergansers, treading water in a streamside eddy. |
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My attention constantly drifted off after I wrote each sentence. |
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He slowly closed his eyes and drifted off into a light doze. |
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Digging out his last subway token, he drifted along in their wake. |
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Both felt comfortable and content as they drifted into a gentle sleep. |
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And with it, some reporters have either drifted to left-of-center or simply decided to avoid being labeled altogether. |
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To make matters worse we drifted into a heavy drinking session. |
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The air had a distinct chill to it and, even though there was no discernible breeze, a few falling leaves drifted along, bright against the brick of a neighbouring house. |
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On the morning dives we drifted in crystal currents, passing over orange gorgonians and red soft corals, and among schools of goatfish, snappers and surgeonfish. |
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The survivors built boats out of horsehides and drifted across the mouth of Mobile Bay on their way to the Texas coast where the last of them would eventually wreck. |
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The pain had already begun to ebb, and she drifted easily off to sleep. |
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With a grin behind his visor and helmet, he drifted toward her. |
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Security and logistics were more critical than ever, and we soon drifted onto the topic of reliable fixers. |
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Specters sometimes drifted throughout the area, watching him with disconcertingly blank faces of incorporeal ectoplasm and dematerializing seconds later. |
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Butter and cheese were being churned and sold on the streets, while a pig on a barbecue created a mouth-watering aroma that drifted through the town. |
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Prehistoric settlers probably drifted here by accident, blown from the coast of France by the north wind, their descendants creating a rich Bronze Age culture. |
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With the help of a neighbour, Jackson eventually escaped to London but instead of returning home to her mother, she drifted in and out of squats and slept rough for a while. |
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She took shelter in Aros Bay, near Tobermory, but during the night her anchor chain parted and she drifted down the sound, driven 10 miles by howling winds and strong tides. |
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As Tim and I drifted slowly downstream, we scrutinized every bird we saw. |
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The cooking odors of cabbage and meatloaf and carrots drifted through doorways. |
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Over the past three decades, we have drifted from having a market economy to becoming a market society. |
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While we slowly drifted, the sea first reflected patches of pinkish purple then took on a golden hue, and the calm waters rippled from diving ducks and a lone humpback whale. |
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The music drifted through the rain and the woman started to clap her hands and dance. |
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She drifted closer, wanting to read it but fearing what it would say. |
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Gradually though, people drifted away and we were left alone. |
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Kay drifted through a series of dead-end jobs for six years. |
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Finally, after 45 minutes, the audience now diminished as people drifted away, the machine spews out some outsize balls that bounce away on the wind. |
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Eventually, he drifted off to sleep, dreaming dreams of blood and agony. |
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He drifted into crime, beginning his long career as a standover man. |
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Rod Millman's juvenile failed by just a head and would surely have prevailed had she not drifted off the rails and allowed the winner to come up her inside. |
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They conceivably could have leapt from a number of tall buildings and then drifted over to where they landed. |
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Moss, chocolate, mink, charcoal, biscuit and olive dominated the white expanse of winter for Grachvogel, as jazz drifted from a grand piano on the catwalk. |
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They both went to their next classes, but the day drifted by slowly. |
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As she sat with her hand cupping her chin, she wondered what was going to become of her and her father right before she drifted off into a dreamless sleep. |
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Trent and I had just sneaked into the storage closet when his gaze drifted to the snare drum, and before I knew it, he started poking holes into it. |
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A rank smell of decay and woodrot drifted from inside the helmet. |
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The sound of a horse whickering drifted from somewhere in the distance. |
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He had drifted to California in time for the gold rush, where he had applied an individual business sense to the problem of becoming seriously rich. |
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The conversation drifted as they walked and shared the events of the day. |
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Derry had a chance to respond immediately but Burke's free drifted wide. |
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Her eyes drifted to two of the freewomen with their long braided hair and brightly colored gowns with intricate tucks and folds draping in soft folds about them. |
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Her mind drifted towards the girl who had occupied the seat next to hers. |
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Small clusters of puffy white clouds drifted over the horizon lazily. |
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We have drifted over near this giant pot plant thing, next to a fire exit. |
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Snow drifted lazily about us, and we were both coated in the white powder. |
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Above the red tile roofs, wisps of smoke drifted from the chimneys. |
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They watched as white smoke drifted lazily upward in the humid tropic air. |
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We're not sure if Brian has drifted disastrously off-message here, or whether we're seeing the birth of a new piece of official market positioning spin. |
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Some roads in the south-east of Scotland were blocked as snow drifted. |
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Dried manure ground into fine powder by hooves and wagon wheels puffed up into the air and its pungent smell filled the town and drifted far outside the town. |
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He turned the vehicle onto a dirt road drifted over with snow. |
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To the cheerful sounds of everyone's favourite carols, snow drifted down through the colourful array of overhead decorations and twinkling fairy lights. |
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One day I was out in the barn and he drifted in. I was currying the horse and he set down on the wheelbarrow and begun to ask questions. |
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The hours of his illness were disjointed and confusing as he drifted in and out of consciousness. |
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He went to sleep, lying there under a wing of his plane, and presently Bland himself drifted off into dreams. |
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The speech might have been electrifying close up, Mr. Conley said, but people near him drifted away before it finished. |
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They gradually drifted away from their original seats, and at length settled in Robeson, about the center of the county. |
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Gondwana started the period in equatorial latitudes and, as the period progressed, drifted toward the South Pole. |
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Some islands lie on sections of continental crust that have rifted and drifted apart from a main continental landmass. |
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Sometime during the Oligocene, South America was finally detached from Antarctica and drifted north towards North America. |
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It had been no easy matter when he first drifted in mysteriously out of nowhere to their little mountain cottage. |
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