adrift

• The prows were immediately cut adrift, and the crew, under the direction of their officers, proceeded with admirable order and coolness, one part to extinguish the fire, and the rest to defend themselves against the murderous attack. —  The Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth
• Often some boat or scow would go adrift, and sometimes a mere dark mass of river-weed would be floated by the tide past the successive stations, eliciting a challenge and perhaps a shot from each. —  Army Life in a Black Regiment
• The three galleys we had towed were now adrift, aimlessly, almost lost in the shadows. —  Rogue Of Gor
• More strands of hair came adrift, and to his amazement she stripped off the cap and slung it onto the floor. —  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
• It was now Mary's turn to feel that she was, for the first time in her life, about to be cut adrift -- adrift, that is, as a world is adrift, on the surest of paths, though without eyes to see. —  Mary Marston

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