smoke-drift

Lying on our blankets under the smoke-drift, we had cut with our jack-knives the tender morsels from a haunch as it roasted.

The River and I John G. Neihardt 1927

All below was calm now and silence; smoke-drift and dying men.

The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea Alfred Ollivant 1900

As he flamed through the smoke-drift, the crew caught fire from him.

The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea Alfred Ollivant 1900

Secret cabals in corners arose, to be scattered like smoke-drift by the whisper that the minister was coming.

Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887

From this point of view no vicinage of modern brickwork spoilt their charm; the time-worn monitors stood alone against a sky of ruddy smoke-drift and purple cloud.

In the Year of Jubilee George Gissing 1880

Then, because I next conceived it a foreign kind of place, different altogether from that home growth of ours, the Tower of London, I topped it with a multitude of domes of pumpkin or turban shape, resembling the Kremlin of Moscow, which had once leapt up in the eye of Winter, glowing like a million pine-torches, and flung shadows of stretching red horses on the black smoke-drift.

The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete George Meredith 1868

Then, because I next conceived it a foreign kind of place, different altogether from that home growth of ours, the Tower of London, I topped it with a multitude of domes of pumpkin or turban shape, resembling the Kremlin of Moscow, which had once leapt up in the eye of Winter, glowing like a million pine-torches, and flung shadows of stretching red horses on the black smoke-drift.

The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868

Then, because I next conceived it a foreign kind of place, different altogether from that home growth of ours, the Tower of London, I topped it with a multitude of domes of pumpkin or turban shape, resembling the Kremlin of Moscow, which had once leapt up in the eye of Winter, glowing like a million pine-torches, and flung shadows of stretching red horses on the black smoke-drift.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868