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Afloat

adjective

Aimlessly drifting. Synonyms: adrift, aimless, directionless, planless, rudderless, undirected.

Borne on the water; floating.

Covered with water. Synonyms: awash, flooded, inundated, overflowing. "The monsoon left the whole place awash" , "A flooded bathroom" , "Inundated farmlands" , "An overflowing tub"

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"Afloat" Quotes from Famous Books

... we lay-to till daylight, by which time the boat had drifted into heavy rollers under the high rocky land at the south-west head of the bay; the wind having risen so much that the boat was only kept afloat by keeping her head to the sea. As we could not observe any spot at which we could land without the risk of swamping the boat and wetting our firearms, we continued pulling towards the ship, the ebb tide assisting us until 2 p.m., when just as all hands were becoming thoroughly tired out, ...

— Journals of Australian Explorations • A C and F T Gregory

... traces. There is a rumour upon the coast that Sharkey, the bloody pirate, was marooned in these parts last year, but whether he has made his way into the interior, or whether he has been picked up by some craft, there is no means of knowing. If he be once again afloat, then I pray that God send him under ...

— The Last Galley Impressions and Tales - Impressions and Tales • Arthur Conan Doyle

... one, and slaves are so hard to get and so dangerous to deal in nowadays that it is sound business policy to take enough care of them to keep them alive. But I am safe in saying that the men engaged in the Mogador trade are about the worst brutes afloat in our time—not excepting the island traders of the South Pacific—and for an honest man to get afloat in their company opens to him large possibilities of being murdered off-hand, with side chances of sharing ...

— In the Sargasso Sea - A Novel • Thomas A. Janvier

... know all that his little girl was thinking of; but he patted her fondly, and said, "Yes, there is a great deal to be thankful for, my dear; and I shall trust to you elder ones to give your Mamma no trouble while I am afloat." ...

— The Stokesley Secret • Charlotte M. Yonge

... francs, at sixty to ninety days' sight, they can sell in the exchange market for dollars, thus securing the money they have agreed to turn over to the railroad. In the meantime, during the life of the drafts they have set afloat and before they come due and have to be paid off, the bankers here can go about selling the bonds and getting back their money. Perhaps before the sixty or ninety days, as the case may be, are over, the syndicate may have sold out all its bonds and its foreign members have been put in ...

— Elements of Foreign Exchange - A Foreign Exchange Primer • Franklin Escher

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