Significats de drift quietly en anglès

Now he let his eye drift quietly over the Cornish ranch.

Christmas Day was calm, and, with a hundred ice islands in sight, the ship was allowed to drift quietly on.

He meant to let himself drift quietly off to sleep, acting as if he had a little trouble going off.

As the current swept near the rocks where the deer was feeding, we let our little craft drift quietly in that direction.

Shall we slip the cables and drift quietly out "to the land east of the sun and west of the moon"?

The clouds have been gathering worriedly for days, finding and clinging to one another; some ripple and billow, some drift quietly in a morose calm.

For now, the various ships drifted quietly above Io, their enormous threat merely implied.

Paul complied with their request and stood upright in the water and drifted quietly along.

He drifts quietly toward the open ocean.

In passing through their country, Wyeth laid by all day, and drifted quietly down the river at night.

For an hour they drifted quietly.

Kazan was lapping up the cool water when Sandy drifted quietly around a bend a hundred yards above them.

The only light was coming from the nearby town, from which pleasant convivial sounds were drifting quietly on the breeze.

These beasts of every imaginable shade drifted quietly over the newly greening countryside as if wafted about on a breeze.

In spite of this, they made the creek and drifted quietly into the gloom of the mangroves with the flowing tide.

He turned towards his craft which, though no apparent signal had been given, now drifted quietly towards them through the dark.