... As a result, the foundering Arabella was literally kept afloat by the half-dozen grapnels that in an instant moored her firmly to the Victorieuse... 
Rafael Sabatini 「Captain Blood」
... Otherwise we might as well have imagined ourselves midgets afloat in a pond and getting nowhere...
Stewart Edward White 「African Camp Fires」
...McLean, it may be added, that, subsequently to her unhappy death, different rumors were afloat as to its cause, some of them cruel to her own memory, others to the conduct of her husband...
Horatio Bridge 「Journal of an African Cruiser」
...Somerset and Ottilie stillpaused, doing nothing more than keepingthemselves afloat, and they felt thecurrent drifting them ever seaward...
Various 「Ainslee's magazine, Volume 16, No. 2, September, 1905」
... That would keep the paper afloat...
Emma Goldman 「Anarchism and Other Essays」
...So this little butterfly which greets us in every spring,like "a violet afloat," to quote Mr...
Clarence M. Weed 「Butterflies Worth Knowing」
...He knew the man could probably keep afloat for at least aminute longer...
Albert Payson Terhune 「Further Adventures of Lad」
...He appeared now, beating out with his armsand legs to keep himself afloat, while the Willow's voice came to himin taunting cries...
James Oliver Curwood 「Baree, Son of Kazan」
...Under and through all other features ofYACHTING is the call of the water—the bracing, irresistibleappeal that has drawn men off shore sincethe first cockle-shell was set afloat...
Leon Luther Pray 「Taxidermy」
...He was afloat now, afloat on the blue air in spite of himself, andflapped lustily for life...
William J Long 「Wilderness Ways」
...As for my boat, it could not have beenkept afloat but for the extra ballast...
Jack London 「Tales of the Fish Patrol」
...While his wife is away the father puts child on a raft and sets it afloat onthe river...
Fay-Cooper Cole 「Traditions of the Tinguian: A Study in Philippine Folk-Lore」
...The bottom of a canoe—there is no keel—slopesfinely up from the middle towards the endsso that when the canoe is afloat several feet of its lengthat bow and stern are out of water...
A. F. R. Wollaston 「Pygmies and Papuans」
...Do youknow how much energy is contained in matter? Well, a cubic inch ofcopper would drive the largest ship afloat around the world twice, andacross the Atlantic to boot...
Various 「Astounding Stories, May, 1931」
...At 8, being high water, hauld her bow closeashore, but Keept her stern afloat, because I was afraid of Neaping her,*(* I...
James Cook 「Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World」
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