Drowned

Examples

• It is I who ought to have drowned myself. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Leave this island before nightfall, or, by heaven, I will have you drowned like the rat you are! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I guess they were all drowned. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He is negotiating with the Jew, I suppose, replied De Bracy, coolly; probably the howls of Isaac have drowned the blast of the bugle. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• You can't be drowned? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• If he had spared her that she could have drowned quietly, welcoming the dark flood as it submerged her. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Horsemen were streaming off in every direction, and the clatter of empty wagons being driven off almost drowned the sound of that terrible singing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• His warning voice was unheard, for the din which the knight himself occasioned by his strokes upon the postern would have drowned twenty war-trumpets. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The bridge was carried quickly, the enemy retreating over it so hastily that many were shoved into the river, and some of them were drowned. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Incidentally this would also have drowned most of the Dutch harvest and cattle. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• At the opening of one of the bottles, at the house of a friend where I then was, three drowned flies fell into the first glass that was filled. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Of course he fell in the canal and was nearly drowned; few boys in Milan worth their salt omitted that performance. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• They were in the end all sunk, and, with the exception of two or three prisoners, the crews drowned. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The son, at the age of eighteen, was drowned at Oxford. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Had the attempt been made the garrison of Vicksburg would have been drowned, or made prisoners on the Louisiana side. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I've been brought out o' drowning, and I can't be drowned. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Pharaoh's multitude that were drowned in the Red Sea, ain't more beyond restoring to life. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It is a fact which will be long remembered as remarkable down there, that she was never drowned, but died triumphantly in bed, at ninety-two. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I feel as if I had been half drowned, and swallowing a gallon of it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I can't be drowned. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Did you take any cold that night you half drowned me? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The adult frog can live all the rest of its days in the air, but it can be drowned if it is kept steadfastly below water. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• No sooner was Rowena seated, than a burst of music, half-drowned by the shouts of the multitude, greeted her new dignity. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• He was drowned long before. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Ain't I told you that the man as has come through drowning can never be drowned? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• In two minutes' time it shook down and drowned nine tenths of the town of Port Royal. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Man's drowned! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• In all great towns, several are every night exposed in the street, or drowned like puppies in the water. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The enemy probably lost but few men except those captured and drowned. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• They might call me drowned. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.

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