"Drifter" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the skirts of battle, from Sluys to Trafalgar, We know that there were small craft, because there always are; Yacht, sweeper, sloop and drifter, to-day as yesterday, The big ships fight the battles, but the ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Sept. 19, 1917 • Various
... the borrowed seventy-five pounds, of course taking security in the boat and upon an undertaking that Tregenza kept her insured. But on the morrow of the black day when she foundered, drowning Seth and Eli, and leaving only the old man to be picked up by a chance drifter running for harbour, it was discovered that the Tregenzas had missed by two months the date of renewing her premium of insurance. The boat was gone, and with ...
— Merry-Garden and Other Stories • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch |
