A thousand schemes were afloat in his mind about the future, of the most improbable kind.
How it had got afloat upon the sea, is more than I can tell you.
He had been sea-sick, but she had seemed unaware of the fact that she was afloat on a rough sea.
I never was more completely adrift, in my life, ashore or afloat.
I could not swim a stroke, and it crossed my mind to get one of the sweeps to keep me afloat.
Pierce senior set it afloat; that is, he and Mark Galloway together.
From the quiet swaying of the floor beneath me I soon sensed that we were afloat.
Afloat the Allies continued to maintain the supremacy which had been theirs.
These things brought it into existence and kept it afloat for some years.
She'll keep him afloat and hard at work earnin' more for her to spend.
