Drowning
['drauniŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Drown
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To dream of drowning, denotes loss of property and life; but if you are rescued, you will rise from your present position to one of wealth and honor. To see others drowning, and you go to their relief, signifies that you will aid your friend to high places, and will bring deserved happiness to yourself. For a young woman to see her sweetheart drowned, denotes her bereavement by death.
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Examples
- In May, 1915, they sank the great passenger liner, the _Lusitania_, without any warning, drowning a number of American citizens. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- All this was seen in a moment, as the vision of a drowning man, or of any human creature at any very great pass, could see a world if it were there. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I've been brought out o' drowning, and I can't be drowned. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The drowning man catches at the straw. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- For many weeks I thought of poison, and then of drowning, and then of fire. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I take a last drowning look at the page as I give it into her hand, and start off aloud at a racing pace while I have got it fresh. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- This frequent rising of a drowning man from the deep, to sink again, was dreadful to the beholders. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- A terrible storm came over her, as if she were drowning. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I was then drowning, and rather wished the operation over. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Carbon dioxide is not poisonous, but it cuts off the supply of oxygen, just as water cuts it off from a drowning man. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Ain't I told you that the man as has come through drowning can never be drowned? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- You can't be too careful, especially toward spring, he said, heaping his plate with straw-coloured griddle-cakes and drowning them in golden syrup. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Death by disease, death by the Indians, death by drowning--all three had approached me; all three had passed me by. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He paused for an instant, and then said abruptly-- 'Did it ever strike you, on such a morning as this, that drowning would be happiness and peace? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- She saw the drowning figure rise to the surface, slightly struggle, and as if by instinct turn over on its back to float. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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