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Usage examples of drifts.

He pointed to a log house set at the eastern edge of the clearing, where two banners could be seen through drifts of smoke.

Division, with part of the naval brigade, were north of the river, the latter to shell the drifts in case the Boers tried to cross, and the infantry to execute a turning movement which would correspond with that of the cavalry on the other flank.

They built a wind-screen of planks, and did it so well that they were able to work all day, unhindered by drifts, until, when evening came, they had the whole foundation dug out.

In the background the masses of snow were piled in huge drifts down a steep slope on the north-west side of the two mountains.

He stared out over the valley but saw no movement except the blanket of mist unraveling into drifts and patches and fingers of white.

One could husband griffins as a farmer husbands geese, he supposes as he, too, drifts on the wind, thoughts shredding into insubstantial bits.

Sharpe looked to the north and west, searching for the tell-tale drifts of dust that would speak of reinforcements hurrying towards the threatened crossroads.

Sharpe tried to count them, but there were just too many men and horses flowing through the filmy drifts of gun smoke.

On the 15th six of the Natal Police were surrounded and captured at one of the drifts of the Buffalo River.

At half-past three in the morning, well before daylight, the mounted infantry picket at the junction of the roads from Landmans and Vants Drifts was fired into by the Doornberg commando, and retired upon its supports.

Rain was falling in sheets, and those who know South African roads, South African mud, and South African drifts will understand how impossible swift military movements are under those circumstances.

Potchefstroom, and instant orders had been sent to him to block the drifts upon the northern side.

For a long time we ran through a world of virgin white, between heaped-up banks of snow where the road had been cleared of drifts, only the occasional black line of a stream to relieve the monotony.

I followed the footsteps through deep drifts of new snow to the stable door.

As we neared the crest of the Saddle wind-blown drifts of snow stung our faces.