Drowned in A Sentence

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    A blinding sunlight drowned all this at times in a sudden recrudescence of glare.

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    A cacophony of bleats, chomping and scuffling of hooves drowned out her words.

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    A little later (January 1657) he suppressed with ruthless severity a rising of the spahis; a certain Sheik Salim, leader of the fanatical mob of the capital, was drowned in the Bosporus; and the Greek Patriarch, who had written to the voivode of Wallachia to announce the approaching downfall of Islam, was hanged.

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    A missing girl fell through the ice and drowned while Howie helplessly watched.

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    A poor publican was drowned in tears, who constantly attends the word of grace, on which all his hopes depend.

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    A situation that was probably quite festive suddenly turns nasty, and mere tiredness turns to terror at the prospect of being drowned.

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    A stunt he attempted once before back in 2006 after his Drowned Alive stunt before doctors pulled him out of the water due to health concerns.

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    Above is the actual spot where Gerald & Johnny nearly drowned.

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    According to another story, Ceyx was drowned and his body cast on the shore.

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    After further struggles between Guelphs and Ghibellines, the Manfredi made themselves masters of the place early in the 14th century, and remained in power until 1501, when the town was taken by Caesar Borgia and the last legitimate members of the house of the Manfredi were drowned in the Tiber; and, after falling for a few years into the hands of the Venetians, it became a part of the states of the church in 1509.

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    Alan Clegg was drowned in Lancaster Hole downstream sump.

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    All the sailors were drowned but Robinson Crusoe.

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    Among its chief features are the Virgin Martyrs' Memorial, representing in white marble a guardian angel and the figures of Margaret M`Lauchlan and Margaret Wilson, who were drowned by the rising tide in Wigtown Bay for their fidelity to the Covenant (1685);(1685); the large pyramid to the memory of the Covenanters, and the Ladies' Rock, from which ladies viewed the jousts in the Valley.

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    Apart from damage to shipping and buildings, the low-lying lands along the coast were completely submerged, and in many villages half the inhabitants were drowned.

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    As they retreated, the ice of the Satschan pond was broken up by the French artillery, and many of the fugitives were drowned.

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    At Cyare, a fountain near Syracuse which Pluto made to spring up when he carried off his bride, the Syracusans held an annual festival in the course of which bulls were sacrificed by being drowned in the water.

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    At least 11 nuclear sites are so low-lying they could be drowned or damaged by rising seas, causing radioactive waste to leak.

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    At the Berezina they again became disorganized, many were drowned and many surrendered, but those who got across the river fled farther.

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    At the present day the animal victim may be burned or drowned, buried in the earth or simply exposed.

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    Berruyer, who was in sole command, ordered the drums to beat and thus drowned the last words of the king's speech.

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    Brunel answered that he'd just received the message—he'd been "on the road," and only recently learned Jeffrey Byrne drowned.

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    But her voice was drowned by the voices of the crowd.

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    But not when I 'm trudging the streets like a drowned rat looking for a basement bolthole.

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    But not when I'm trudging the streets like a drowned rat looking for a basement bolthole.

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    But on his crossing the Danube in 1716 he was thrown into the water and drowned, as it is alleged, at the instigation of the prince of Walachia.

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    But the criticism which the French treaty aroused was drowned in the clamour which was created by the proposed repeal of the paper duties.

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    But the enthusiasm with which the people received him at the Feast of Tabernacles convinced Herod of the danger; and the youth was drowned by order of the king at Jericho.

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    But, for someone in the spotlight as this talented athlete is, the nay-sayers are generally drowned out by the droves of fans.

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    Byrne's that guy who was supposed to have drowned!

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    Carmen's giggle was drowned by a rumble of thunder.

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    Caroline Taylor's father accidentally drowned in the 1890's which appears to be suicide.

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    Chesapeake Bay itself is the drowned lower course of the Susquehanna river, to which the other streams mentioned were 1 The mechanism is described under Pianoforte and Spinet.

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    Did you ever consider that your husband might not have drowned and just left you?

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    Do I detect you're not 100 percent sure the old boy drowned?

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    Don't tell me you believe the jerk just drowned!

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    Drowned in Sound is excited to present another all-day event to keep you suckling at the teat of great new music.

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    Drowned out not just by the violent protest but also by the bland platitudes of the world supposed "leaders."

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    Drowned, that was the official conclusion.

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    Edith Shipton had attempted suicide once before, after her stepson drowned in her presence.

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    Five are listed as missing and presumed drowned.

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    For a moment she clung to him, pressing her body against his until desire for him drowned out every other thought.

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    For incest with his own mother, both were burned to death; with a stepmother, the man was disinherited; with a daughter, the man was exiled; with a daughter-in-law, he was drowned; with a son's betrothed, he was fined.

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    For the most part I escaped wonderfully from these dangers, either by proceeding at once boldly and without deliberation to the goal, as is recommended to those who run the gauntlet, or by keeping my thoughts on high things, like Orpheus, who, "loudly singing the praises of the gods to his lyre, drowned the voices of the Sirens, and kept out of danger."

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    Four children were born of the marriage - a son who died in his father's lifetime, and was lamented by him in very touching verse; another a captain in the navy, drowned at Madeira in 1827; a third son, Charles, afterwards created Earl Canning; and a daughter Harriet, who married the marquess of Clanricarde in 1825.

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    Fourteen noblemen,three burgomasters,fourteen town-councillors and about twenty common citizens of Stockholm were then drowned or decapitated.

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    Had Jeffrey Byrne skipped or drowned?

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    Having weighed the probable pains and pleasures of approaching old age, he decided that life had nothing left for which he greatly cared, and drowned himself.

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    He and the few men with him were compelled to take to the water; one was killed, another was drowned, Cushing and one other escaped, and the rest were captured.

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    He drowned in 1941.

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    He drowned on May 4th in Norfolk, Virginia.

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    He must have drowned.

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    He ran until his pounding heart drowned out his pounding feet.

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    He ran, the fury of his footsteps drowned out by ragged breathing.

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    He razed the walls and allowed the women, children and priests to retire in safety to Liege, but the male prisoners he either hanged or drowned in the river by causing them to be cast from the projecting cliff of Bouvignes.

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    He was almost drowned.

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    He was drowned by the Turks in Constantinople in 1590 through the intrigues of Mihnea, who succeeded him on the throne of Walachia.

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    He was drowned in 1871, aged 32, on a homeward voyage to Buckie.

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    He was drowned in the swollen stream of Csele on his flight from the field, being the second prince of the house of Jagiello who laid down his life for Hungary.

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    He was senseless; but I knew he wasn't drowned.

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    He was tragically drowned while bathing in the Neva in July 1789, a few months after his marriage with a daughter of Albert Euler, son of Leonhard Euler.

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    He wasn't drowned in a fishing accident, was he?

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    Helle fell off and was drowned in the strait, which after her was called the Hellespont.

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    Here were to be found men of ability proof against the eloquence of Hans Tausen or Peder Plad and quite capable of controverting their theories - men like Povl Helgesen, for instance, indisputably the greatest Danish theologian of his day, a scholar whose voice was drowned amidst the clash of conflicting creeds.

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    His elder brother was drowned in the Thames in the following year; and in 1814, on the death of his father, he took his seat in the House of Lords as Baron Auckland.

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    However, the peasantry found, in the abjuration, matter contrary to their consciences, and while some recusants were shot out of hand, a girl named Margaret Wilson, with an old woman, Margaret MacLauchlan, were tied to stakes and drowned by the incoming tide, near Wigtown (13th of May 1685).

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    Hugh's only son Richard, who was childless, was drowned in the White Ship in November 1120.

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    Hundreds drowned or burned when the town was hit with floodwaters.

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    I could even forgive the one lady whose shrill, warbling voice almost drowned out the other twenty five there.

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    I hear he had a boy who drowned.

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    If she did not prove her case, but was proved to be a bad wife, she was drowned.

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    If we weren't cooked by lightning, we'd be drowned before we got down this mountain.

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    In 1667 he accepted an invitation to succeed Johann Hoornbeck (1617-1666) as professor in the university of Leiden, but he was drowned with three of his children by the upsetting of a boat while crossing the river Limmat.

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    In July 1822, just short of his thirtieth birthday, Shelley was drowned in a boating accident.

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    In Osaka, a young man drowned a homeless man by throwing him into a river in broad daylight.

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    In Petersburg at that time a complicated struggle was being carried on with greater heat than ever in the highest circles, between the parties of Rumyantsev, the French, Marya Fedorovna, the Tsarevich, and others, drowned as usual by the buzzing of the court drones.

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    In the saloon, the noise of the raucous crowd drowned out the screams coming from upstairs.

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    It derives its name from the dangers attending its navigation, or, according to an Arabic legend, from the numbers who were drowned by the earthquake which separated Asia and Africa.

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    It is of value in cyanide and opium poisoning and in the resuscitation of the apparently drowned.

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    It is said that, while master of the town, Arouj caused twentytwo of the Zeiyan princes to be drowned in the sahrij.

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    It was a quarry swimming hole where a child had drowned the summer before.

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    It was here that a party of Arab slavers, without warning or provocation, assembled one day when the market was busiest and commenced shooting the women, hundreds being killed or drowned in trying to escape.

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    It was so-called from Helle, the daughter of Athamas, who was drowned here.

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    It was unfortunately drowned out by too load music in particular the drummer.

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    Jeffrey Byrne, age 38, of 156 Maid Marian Lane, Parkside, apparently drowned in the early morning hours of Tuesday, May fourth while on a business trip in Norfolk, Virginia.

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    Joseph Elkington, a Warwickshire farmer, discovered a plan of laying dry sloping ground that is drowned by the outbursting of springs.

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    Just a few months later during February vacation, Rick drowned while on a fishing trip with his father.

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    Kilij Arslan took possession of Mosul in 1107, and declared himself independent of the Seljuks of Irak; but in the same year he was drowned in the Khaboras through the treachery of his own amirs, and the dynasty seemed again destined to decay, as his sons were in the power of his enemies.

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    Lambert's sovereignty was short lived, as he and Williams were drowned while out fishing in May 1812.

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    Layamon, who in his translation of Wace treats his original much as Wace treated Geoffrey, says that there was a tradition that she had drowned herself, and that her memory and that of Mordred were hateful in every land, so that none would offer prayer for their souls.

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    Let her mourn her drowned husband.

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    Mahratta invasions from central India, piratical devastations on the sea-board, banditti who marched about the interior in bodies of 50,000 men, floods which drowned the harvests of whole districts, and droughts in which a third of the population starved to death, kept alive a sense of human powerlessness in the presence of an omnipotent fate.

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    Many civilians were drowned as they tried to escape the carnage by fleeing across the River Slaney.

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    Many ships are wrecked and the sailors are drowned.

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    Many were drowned and only half of the 400 rescued survived Japanese captivity.

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    Maxentius was defeated at Saxa Rubra near Rome and drowned in the Tiber while attempting to make his way across the Milvian bridge into Rome.

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    Multi-colored strobe lights pulsed around the overcrowded, vampire-themed club while electronica drowned out most attempts at conversation.

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    Natalie Wood - The beautiful actress drowned in late 1981 in a boating accident, where she reportedly fell overboard.

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    Of course—where he allegedly drowned.

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    Of course—where he allegedly drowned.

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    Of her mother little is known save that she lived for some time with her daughter, and that in 1679 she was drowned, apparently when intoxicated, in a pond at Chelsea.

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    Of the French and Bavarians 11,000 men, roo guns and 200 colours and standards were taken; besides the killed and wounded, the numbers of which were large but uncertain - many were drowned in the Danube.

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    Of the six parts into which it is divided, the first translates into manysided music the joys and sorrows, the thoughts and fancies, the studies and ardours and speculations of youth; the second, as full of light and colour, grows gradually deeper in tone of thought and music; the third is yet riper and more various in form of melody and in fervour of meditation; the fourth is the noblest of all tributes ever paid by song to sorrow - a series of poems consecrated to the memory of the poet's eldest daughter, who was drowned, together with her husband, by the upsetting of a boat off the coast of Normandy, a few months after their wedding-day, in 1843; the fifth and the sixth books, written during his first four years of exile (all but one noble poem which bears date nine years earlier than its epilogue or postscript), contain more than a few poems unsurpassed and unsurpassable for depth and clarity and trenchancy of thought, for sublimity of inspiration, for intensity of faith, for loyalty in translation from nature, and for tenderness in devotion to truth; crowned and glorified and completed by their matchless dedication to the dead.

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    On a second voyage, in 1556, Chancellor was drowned; and three subsequent voyages, led by Stephen Burrough, Arthur Pet and Charles Jackman, in small craft of 50 tons and under, carried on an examination of the straits which lead into the Kara sea.

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    On June 23, 1929, after losing his fortune and the money that his own family had entrusted to him, Frank attached a heavy iron gate to his ankles and jumped into the ocean and drowned.

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    On Sunday morning Nathaniel Mason found deceased drowned in a pond by the roadside, Golding said they had parted company in the road.

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    On the 10th of June 1190 Frederick was either bathing or crossing the river Calycadnus (Geuksu), near Seleucia (Selefke) in Cilicia, when he was carried away by the stream and drowned.

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    On the 12th of October 1435 she was drowned in the Danube near Straubing, in which town her remains were afterwards buried by Albert.

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    On the 13th of August 1882 he was drowned whilst bathing near Hastings.

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    On the east bank is a memorial to 4 Clyde shipyard workers who drowned.

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    One 2004 study found that 88 percent of children who drowned were under the supervision of another person, usually a family member.

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    Otto's precarious position was saved by a victory near Andernach when Eberhard was killed, and Giselbert drowned in the subsequent flight.

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    Peer into the waters and you will see a flotsam of drowned and bloated corpses.

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    Prince Andrew sat in another room, faint with fear lest the baby should be drowned in the font, and awaited the termination of the ceremony.

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    Same. He drowned, remember?

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    Sforza was accidentally drowned, but when Alphonso returned to Spain, leaving only a.

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    She was not allowed to join the school choir because her voice drowned out the other students.

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    She's frantic he might have really drowned.

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    Shipton claimed Jerry fell in the water while they were shooting rapids and Shipton himself nearly drowned trying to save him.

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    Sir Robert Peel's party, catching at this hint, threw themselves into a frantic state of excitement, and when Cobden attempted to explain that he meant official, not personal responsibility, they drowned his voice with clamorous and insulting shouts.

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    Small children have drowned or almost drowned in bathtubs, toilets, industrial-size cleaning buckets, and washing machines.

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    So delicate her jade face, drowned with tears of sadness, Like a spray of pear flowers, veiled with springtime rain.

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    Some forty uhlans were drowned in the river, though boats were sent to their assistance.

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    Some of the horses were drowned and some of the men; the others tried to swim on, some in the saddle and some clinging to their horses' manes.

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    Sometimes very terrible accidents happen, and many people are burned and drowned and injured.

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    Spragge, whose second flagship was shattered by the Dutch fire, was on his way to a third, his boat was sunk by a cannon shot and he was drowned.

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    Stories have been told of old stagecoaches disapearing into the hole with all passengers drowned.

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    Such is the origin of the branching bays or "drowned river valleys," among which may be noted the lower Potomac, Rappahannock, York and James rivers.

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    Taran cleared his throat before saying through gritted teeth, "There are animals and plants that dwell only in darkness, and an underwater river that almost drowned me when I found it."

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    The accused jumped into the sacred river, and the innocent swam while the guilty drowned.

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    The actor playing the older boy, Vladimir Garin, was tragically drowned after the film's completion.

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    The bluster of the busy city drowned out her words.

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    The boy, Jerry, fell in and drowned.

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    The brothers have been working together in the fashion industry since the 1980s but are best known for being hand selected by Madonna to design 150 costumes for her 2002 Drowned World Tour.

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    The cries of the victims were drowned out by the general tumult.

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    The drowned lower courses of the S.E.

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    The empress Theodora (842-857) hung, crucified, beheaded or drowned some Ioo,000 of them, and drove yet more over the frontier, where from Argaeum, Amara, Tephrike and other strongholds their generals Karbeas and Chrysocheir harried the empire, until 873, when the emperor Basil slew Chrysocheir and took Tephrike.

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    The empress Theodora killed, drowned or hanged no fewer than 100,000.

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    The forget-me-not, a favourite with poets, and the symbol of constancy, is a frequent ornament of brooks, rivers and ditches, and, according to an old German tradition, received its name from the last words of a knight who was drowned in the attempt to procure the flower for his lady.

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    The guns and some r 200 men were taken; many men were drowned.

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    The head of the animal or man may be cut off (and custom often requires that a single blow shall suffice), its spine broken or its heart torn out; it may be stoned, beaten to death or shot, torn in pieces, drowned or buried, burned to death or hung, thrown down a precipice, strangled or squeezed to death.

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    The king's own legitimate brother Edwin made no attempt on the throne, but in 933 he was drowned at sea under somewhat mysterious circumstances; the later chroniclers ascribe his death to foul play on the part of the king, but this seems more than doubtful.

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    The loss of human lives was reported to be about 14,000, and the number of cattle drowned about 15,000.

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    The lower Hudson, below Troy, is really a fiord, the stream valley being drowned by the sea through subsidence of the land.

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    The number of those who were shot, drowned or otherwise massacred without the pretence of a trial can never be accurately known, but must be reckoned far greater.

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    The oxygen machine drowned out the sound of any whispered conversations.

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    The plaintive moan of reproach was drowned by the threatening and angry roar of the crowd.

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    The pursuing Egyptians were drowned, and the miraculous preservation of the chosen people at the critical moment marks the first stage in the national history?

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    The shed became semidark, and the sharp rattle of the drums on two sides drowned the sick man's groans.

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    The smooth walls above the liquid afford no foothold, and they are drowned; their bodies are digested and the products of digestion are ultimately absorbed by the glands in the pitcher-wall.

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    The sound of your sizzling fat legs will be drowned only by the sound of your screams of agony.

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    The sounds of a string quartet may be drowned out by the sounds of crashing waves.

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    The telephone drowned out his response, and Lisa darted to her room.

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    The tide was coming in the time of night he was supposed to have drowned so the body would drift up the bay.

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    The vast majority never returned; the happiest of them were shipwrecked and drowned in the Mediterranean.

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    The weight of their clothing drowned many women, and others drowned when people who couldn't swim pulled them under.

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    The young girl usually drowned or was eaten by crocodiles.

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    There are also many memorials of the battle of Leipzig, including an obelisk on the Randstadter-Steinweg, on the site of the bridge which was prematurely blown up, when Prince Poniatowski was drowned; a monument of cannon balls collected after the battle; a "relief" to Major Friccius, who stormed the outer Grimma gate; while on the battle plain itself and close to "Napoleonstein," which commemorates Napoleon's position on the last day of the battle, a gigantic obelisk surrounded by a garden has been planned for dedication on the hundredth anniversary of the battle (October 19, 1913).

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    There are several handsome public monuments, notably that to Duke Leopold of Brunswick, who was drowned in the Oder while attempting to save life, on the 27th of April 1785.

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    There is good reason for believing that at least along the southern border of New England a narrow coastal plain was for a time added to the continental border; and that, as in the New Jersey section the plain was here stripped from a significant breadth of inland overlap and worn down so as to form an inner lowland enclosed by a longitudinal upland or cuesta; and that when this stage was reached a submergence, of the kind which has produced the many embayments of the New England coast, drowned the outer part of thy plain and the inner lowland, leaving only the higher parts of the cuesta as islands.

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    There were 14 attempts that resulted with twenty-three caught, six shot and killed, and two drowned.

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    These pouch harbours are probably " drowned " drainage basins.

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    They accepted the invitation and were drowned.

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    They let you fall into the water, and you would have been drowned, if it hadn't been for me.

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    They say the other day Matthew Ivanych Platov drove them into the river Marina and drowned some eighteen thousand in one day.

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    This brought them into conflict with Ezzelino da Romano; Jacopo da Carrara was besieged by Ezzelino in his castle of Agna, and while trying to escape was drowned.

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    This increase was attributable to the deaths of 21 migrant workers who drowned while harvesting cockles at Morecambe Bay in February this year.

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    This signal was wantonly destroyed by a pirate, whose ship was afterwards wrecked at this very spot, the rover and his men being drowned.

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    This would have drowned the Anglers Inn that enjoyed a hauntingly atmospheric location right on the lake shore.

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    Those who had not yet crossed the river refused, in face of this omen, to follow their brethren; the little band, numbering 400 warriors (according to others, consisting of 2000 horsemen) decided to remain under Ertoghrul, son of the drowned leader.

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    Turgeis was captured and drowned by the ardri Maelsechlainn in 844, and two years later Domrair was slain.

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    Under the year 1246 it is recorded that Turlough O'Connor made his escape from the crannog of Lough Leisi, and drowned his keepers.

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    Until the seventh day after she drowned herself, assuming Darkyn doesn't catch you first.

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    Various derivations are given by the ancient grammarians - one from the town of Aegae; another from Aegea, a queen of the Amazons who perished in this sea; and a third from Aegeus, the father of Theseus, who, supposing his son dead, drowned himself in it.

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    Whatever question arose, a swarm of these drones, without having finished their buzzing on a previous theme, flew over to the new one and by their hum drowned and obscured the voices of those who were disputing honestly.

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    When about one half of his army had crossed, and while they were still in disorder, they were attacked with such fury by Wallace, that almost all - Cressingham among the number - were slain, or driven into the river and drowned.

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    When the news reached Germany that he had been drowned, an event which took place in Cilicia in June 1190, men felt that evil days were coming upon the country, for the elements of discord would no longer be controlled by the strong hand of the great emperor.

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    When, in 1836, his successor was accidentally drowned, De Morgan was requested to resume the professorship.

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    Why didn't you just dump him in the Chesapeake where he was supposed to have drowned?

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    Within six months Story was drowned, but his brother-in-law, Jonas Winchester, took his place in the firm.

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    Yermak was drowned in the Irtysh in 1584 and the Cossacks abandoned Siberia.

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    You could have drowned me!

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    You mean where Byrne drowned?