drift-drivers

Updated: July 11, 2025

Are ye all asleep, you dammers, sinkers, and drift-drivers? turn out, ye subterranean badgers. Here is your master, Sir Geoffrey, dead, for aught ye know or care. Do not you see the beacon is unlit, and you sit there like so many asses?" "Why," answered one of the miners, who now began to come out of their huts "An he be dead, He will eat no more bread."

Sir Walter Scott - Peveril of the Peak