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Sentences ending with drown

A dozen held tremblingly to the pirogue's gunwale, lest they fall and drown. [9]
By it the innocent are proved innocent, without doubt or question, for they drown; and the guilty are proven guilty with the same certainty, for they do not drown. [5]
He will do his best, but both will drown. [5]
Then Jim's eyes blazed, and he turned a look of anger on the chief, his face pale and hard, as he said: "The stream rises above the banks; come with me, chief, or all will drown. [11]

More example sentences with the word drown in them

And I tell you what, Sir, if I hadn't more of these qualities that commonly endear man to man, than our articled clerk has, I'd steal a Cheshire cheese, tie it round my neck, and drown myself. [12]
Without saying a word, he threw a gold chain to his brother, ordered his nobles to follow him, and left the garden, but only to wander restlessly up and down his apartments, and try to drown his rage in wine. [10]
When the great winds and rains come down from the hills, do not let the floods drown us, nor the woods cover us, nor the snow-slide bury us; and do not let the prairie-fires burn us. [11]
At his shoulder was a face, wistful, worn, yet with a kind of happiness too; and the eyes had depths which any man might be glad to drown his heart in. [11]
I paddled mo'n two hours, den I warn't worried no mo', so I quit paddlin' en floated down de current, considerin' what I 'uz gwine to do if I didn't have to drown myself. [5]
So the duke took his hands off and says: "If you ever deny it again I'll drown you. [5]
Born a gentleman, there were in him some degenerate characteristics which heart could not drown or temperament refine. [11]
It was believed that the martyr died prophecying; that the prophecies sometimes foretold disaster, and it was considered a kindness to those upon whom it was to fall to drown the voice and keep them in ignorance of the misfortune that was to come. [5]
I should put that couple of words under the ban of the United States Supreme Court, under its decision of a few days ago, and take 'em out and drown 'em. [5]
As he did so, Mrs. Falchion said: "Justine would drown so easily if one would let her. [11]
By common report she is endowed with more than earthly powers; and since he cannot have the boon of death, he appeals to her to drown his memory in forgetfulness of his griefs--forgetfulness 'which is death's equivalent'. [5]
For reasons known or unknown to us the French began to drown and kill one another. [2]
To rescue her, or to drown with her was his sole idea. [10]
And he did not try to save her when he knew she meant to drown herself. [11]
It was the Majority's scheme--as charged by the Opposition--to drown debate upon the bill by pure noise--drown it out and stop it. [5]
His rage, his love, and his malignant hate, his tenderness and his lust should fill the barber's shop with a flood which would drown the Gorgio raider. [11]
May the waters leave their courses to drown you, and the hills their bases to bury you, and no hand lay you in decent graves! [11]
Why does the lady intending suicide always throw on a waterproof when she steals out of the house to drown herself? [4]
Whoever is not killed by lightning will drown in the puddles. [10]
Sleeman says that it was usual to play music at the suttee, but that the white man's notion that this was to drown the screams of the martyr is not correct; that it had a quite different purpose. [5]
How long would it take to fill the hole and drown out the woodchuck? [4]
To the alleged insanity of the Swedes, Balashev wished to reply that when Russia is on her side Sweden is practically an island: but Napoleon gave an angry exclamation to drown his voice. [2]
The storm culminated in one matchless effort that seemed likely to tear the island to pieces, burn it up, drown it to the tree-tops, blow it away, and deafen every creature in it, all at one and the same moment. [5]
I told him I thought he ought to know that an ambitious man might as well drown himself at once as get a fast woman in his path. [11]
It would welcome his arrival in triumphant strains; it would pursue him at dinner, and drown his conversation; it will fill his siesta with martial dreams, and it would seize his legs in the evening, and entreat him to caper in the parlor. [4]
And how Bill Hickman, a Destroying Angel, shot Drown and Arnold dead for bringing suit against him for a debt. [5]
It seemed to her when she stopped to listen for the first guns of the coming battle that the tumult in her heart would drown their roar. [9]
But it's no good politics, sailing around like this with a person that's out of his head, and says he's going round the world and then drown us all. [5]
Sooner will I go into a convent, or drown myself in the Nile!--And I will say all this to my mother, this very day. [10]
I used to get drowned in it every summer regularly, and be drained out, and inflated and set going again by some chance enemy; but not enough of it is unoccupied now to drown a person in. [5]
And she had eyes of blue which were "meant to drown those who hadn't life-belts," as he said. [11]
He felt himself drowning, even wished to drown, --and yet strangely resisted. [9]
I wanted to drown somebody, but I hadn't anybody I could spare. [5]
We will not drown in wordy praise The kindly thoughts that rise; If friendship owns one tender phrase, He reads it in our eyes. [6]
The war-drum would drown any small human cries of suspicion or outraged innocence. [11]
And so he concluded to drown himself, and I said it was an excellent idea--the only trouble being that he was so good a swimmer. [5]
Then the dream changed, and I saw a man in the sea, drowning, who seemed never to drown entirely, his hands ever beating the air and the mocking water. [11]
Mr. Seward had brought his machine from New York, --a legion prepared to fill the Wigwam with their bodies, and to drown with their cries all names save that of their master. [9]
I went there and kissed them and fondled them, to appease my spirit and drown it in a harmless joy, then I put them back. [5]
This caused people all over France to begin to slash at and drown one another. [2]
And when, just after the noonday dinner, the goodwife gave him a basket of kittens to drown, he did resign. [5]
Ay, it was Achmet who sought to drown thy Pasha in the Nile. [11]
He went about, a moody, silent man, speaking to no one; and to drown his melancholy would begin drinking, even at an early hour in the morning, quantities of the strongest Syrian wine. [10]

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