"When the charge sheet was filled up I told the story I always tell, viz that my name was Edward Burton, and my parents kept a cake-shop in Blythburgh, where I had been employed as a clerk in a draper's shop; that I had had the sack for drunkenness, and my parents, finally getting sick of my drunken habits, had turned me adrift," the author of Animal Farm wrote in a posthumously published essay.
Tom, now a widower and adrift, turns up at her flat in hopes of succor, salvation, turning back time's pitiless clock hands.
Men were cutting down carley floats and flotanets, casting timber adrift, turning out boats.
But one wrong turn and we were adrift in a maze of nearly identical alleys, each without street signs or visible outlets.
One wonders whether Coppola can taste the irony: he spent a year or so in a troublesome foreign land, and he wound up with a movie about home — about Willard, Chief, and the rest of the guys, and what they could turn into if cast adrift.
As a north country word for 'pantry', spence was used by Poet Laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson in the sense of a refectory: "Bluff Harry broke into the spence and turn'd the cowls adrift" (The Talking Oak, l.47).
Els, who also won the Open in 2002 at Muirfield, trailed overnight leader Scott by six strokes at the start of the final round and was still six adrift at the turn.
You can spot them from time to time on the small screen, hanging around strip clubs in New Jersey and answering to names like Paulie, Silvio, Christopher -- useless as ever, still adrift and turning mean.
"Andrea was not an art person," he said, but she took charge of the museum when it was adrift and "turned it in the direction where it could become what it is today".
On that occasion he reeled in Phil Mickelson and Ross Fisher despite being 12 shots adrift at the turn, before losing to the American world No2 in the play-off.
Van der Burgh already has seven world medals but no 100m gold but it appeared he was on course to change all that when he stormed up the first length in 26.79 with Peaty half a body length adrift at the turn.
