Sentence examples for his drifter from inspiring English sources

61 Hours, by Lee Child (Bantam, £18.99) This is the 14th Jack Reacher novel and Child shows no signs of tiring of his drifter hero.

They were Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969, followed by the less fresh 1971 Support Your Local Gunfighter), in which he developed his contrary hero: "I make no secret," his drifter drawled, unimpressed by the wildness, or indeed the westernness, of a frontier town, "of the fact that I'm on my way to Australia".

True to his drifter roots, Ruvkun has, since then, gamely followed the road of science as it has twisted and turned toward his current pursuit: studying the neuroendocrine control of metabolism, development, and longevity in C. elegans.

But such is the task at hand for Josh Brolin and Elias Koteas, accomplished film actors who start their run in "True West" on Wednesday, with Mr. Brolin playing Austin, the soft-spoken screenwriter, and Mr. Koteas as Lee, his drifter brother.

With the Internet as his guide and a knife in his pocket, a drifter suspected in a series of sexual assaults made his way to elite prep schools and leafy suburban campuses, sheltered places rarely visited by violent crime, the authorities said.

The 1993 film, set in a high school in the 1970s, saw him utter his now-famous line "alright, alright, alright" for the first time in his role as drifter David Wooderson.

He is harassed by a bully and also by his father, a drifter.

The drifter raised his fist to his mouth with a grimace, as Ellen pressed her thumb against her wet, quivering eyeball for leverage.

Reared by his mother, Bernice, he was a bit of a drifter into his late teens, never graduating from high school and focusing on his future only when he found music.

This was his second attempt to engage a hitman; a year earlier, he had given a drifter on his estate £2,500 in cash to murder Rosa.

The mind games begin long before the drifter brandishes his phallic blade.