Meanings of drifting round in English

I tell you I'm not going drifting round this river in the dark any longer.

Smoke was drifting round and over the gables of the house to prove his point.

I'd been in London a week before I wrote you-justdrifting round-tooweak-kneed to take the first step.

Provider globes were drifting round the manor, ejecting replacements for items which had never been repaired or replaced.

The song-birds, the pleasure-seekers, have flown long since; but this lonely cloud floats on, drifting round in a circle.

Talk of the devil in New York and you very soon find the conversation drifting round to Nap Errol.

And the reluctant Leslie found the conversation drifting round to botany, about which he knew little and cared less.

"There are no regulations," he observed moodily; "or else nobody follows them: collisions all the time, sinkings and derelicts drifting round, awash and dismasted.