driftings

Hot and slippery as our skins were, we drifted over each other with barely a sensation of touching or pressure, but his presence within me was solid and intimate, a fixed point in a watery world, like an umbilical cord in the random driftings of the womb.

Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

No matter how many derangements, dysfunctions, driftings there may be . . . no matter how fragmented the political and social space may be; despite this nihilist hypertrophy of petty antiquarian memory; despite this hyperobesity - increasingly less metaphorical - of the great social bodies that form the invisible edifice of the country; despite the utter misery of the ghettos . . .

Bernard-Henri Lévy says why Barack Obama will be President. Ann Althouse 2008

No matter how many derangements, dysfunctions, driftings there may be . . .

Archive 2006-01-01 Ann Althouse 2006

Henceforth, life would not only be an elevated journey, but the tormented driftings of enterprising glands.

An East Wind Coming Cover, Arthur Byron 1979

Nor is it specific dangers they fear so much as the loss of moral fiber, the scattering of energies, the waste and futility that are frequently the net result of casual driftings with every wind that blows.

Human Traits and their Social Significance Irwin Edman

He had lived by the knowledge of death, by the blessed certainty that life could not go on for ever, that there must be an end to all the wanderings and pain, to all the dulnesses and unsatisfactory driftings, to all the joys that would otherwise fall upon sluggishness or cloy themselves.

Secret Bread F. Tennyson Jesse

But I _will_ tell you about the driftings in the side of the hill, which we visited on our way, -- not so much from a precious desire of enlightening your pitiable ignorance upon such subjects, you poor, little, untraveled Yankee woman! but to prove to you that, having fathomed the depths of shafts, and threaded the mazes of coyote-holes,

The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe

Besides, is it not matter of personal experience, that when order enters into, and pervades our worldly business, we accomplish far more than when it is left to the driftings of fortune, or to the mere suggestions of the mind?

The Faithful Steward Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian Character Sereno D. Clark

"M'sieur," he rumbled, peering around at de Guise, who now stood by the fireplace of the room to which the visitor's driftings had led him, his hands locked behind him.

The Sins of Séverac Bablon Sax Rohmer 1921

But in the early spring, before the driftings of the winter's storms had been burned up by picnickers like themselves, there was plenty to be had.

Mary Jane's City Home Clara Ingram Judson 1914