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Sentences ending with drowned

Such a catastrophe would be death, in all probability, for we would be swept to sea in the "Sink" or overturned and drowned. [5]
You see, we were twins --defunct--and I--and we got mixed in the bathtub when we were only two weeks old, and one of us was drowned. [5]
They believed I was drowned. [11]
To quench the tormenting fire, frying him in his clothes, he leaped into the deep river, where, ere they could recover him, he was nearly drowned. [4]
Preparing to go to Roanoke next day, a boat was upset and Captain Spicer and six of the crew were drowned. [4]
I cried out to Nick, but my voice was drowned. [9]
Here he learned that the rich prize had been wrecked in the storm and the captain and half the crew drowned. [4]
He gasped, "Does she think I am drowned? [11]
Alexander de la Pole was pushed overboard or fell over, and was drowned. [5]
Where at the Pole our valiant men were drowned? [11]

Short sentences using drowned

Drowned, eh, Mrs Quilp! [12]
He was drowned. [11]
Drowned! [12]

More example sentences with the word drowned in them

This very last year the fisherman Phabis killed with a hammer the Alexandrian clerk who had stolen into his house, and drowned his faithless wife. [10]
The hands were wrinkled; the face was cold; the body was wet: the man was drowned and dead. [11]
Some swooned and would have drowned had they not been dragged across the canoe and chafed back to consciousness. [9]
They both listened with such tension that the veins in their foreheads swelled; but from the tablinum, which was hardly thirty paces from them, came only very faint and intermittent sounds, indistinct in character and drowned by the tumult without. [10]
It was his wife's sister, my sister whom my brother drowned for her money--he made her life such a misery! [11]
None of them were drowned that day, and I learned at night that they were Roman Catholics from Whykokornagh. [4]
Some forty Uhlans were drowned in the river, though boats were sent to their assistance. [2]
Still other gentlemen were delivering themselves of the first impressive periods of orations, only to be drowned by the cheers of their auditors. [9]
It's human life, Washington--just an epitome of human ambition, and struggle, and the outcome: you aim for the palace and get drowned in the sewer. [5]
The noble youth was drowned while bathing in the Rhine. [10]
A young man was drowned not very long ago in the river running under our windows. [6]
I reckon I've waked only just in time to keep from being hanged or drowned or burned or something.... [5]
The groans of two young singers who were seriously ill were drowned by the din and heeded by no one except the old drummer's pitying wife, who sometimes wiped the perspiration from the sufferers' brows or supported their heads. [10]
She listened breathlessly to the sounds from the city, and now a distant blare of trumpets drowned the dull roar of the ordnance and the sharp rattle of the culverins. [10]
We were like to be drowned with the rain, deafened with the howling wind and the booming thunder, and blinded by the lightning. [5]
From time to time the outbursts of rage and agony of despairing men, and horrible jeering laughter, drowned the voices of the flocks of birds and the roaring of the tempestuous sea. [10]
And here those three young people were drowned, a few summers ago, by the upsetting of a sail-boat in a sudden flaw of wind. [6]
But the strangest thing that ever happened to Jim was the time he went boating on Sunday, and didn't get drowned, and that other time that he got caught out in the storm when he was fishing on Sunday and didn't get struck by lightning. [5]
At the Berezina they again became disorganized, many were drowned and many surrendered, but those who got across the river fled farther. [2]
While the Turks therefore prepared to repel a great army from that side, Kisell attacked with his ten thousand men, Ebersbraught sallied out and fell upon the Turks in the trenches, all the enemy on that side were slain or drowned, or put to flight. [4]
Another year, and then came a letter from Freeman himself, saying that his wife was dead; that he had identified her body in the Morgue at Paris--found drowned, and all that. [11]
The roar of the wind, with its strange knell and the re-crashing echoes, mingled with the roar of the flooding rain, and all seemingly were deadened and drowned in a world of sound. [13]
The music in the towers might have ceased, so completely was it drowned by the tumult in the amphitheatre. [10]
She was like the sun; on whatsoever dim and humble object her rays fell, that thing was straightway drowned in glory. [5]
The whistling of the steam was something frightful now--it almost drowned all other noises. [5]
Never mind about the smaller waves, let us come to the largest one of all, the wave that swept us small fry quite off our feet and almost drowned us with joy. [5]
It was to the effect that the great Fishing Company trading to Gaspe needed twenty Jersiais to go out and replace a number of the company's officers and men who had been drowned in a gale off the rock called Perch. [11]
It muddled, drowned the best that was in me. [11]
Think of the surly indifference of the storms that swept the forest and the waters, the earthquake chasms that engulfed him, the inundations that drowned him out of his miserable hiding-places, the pestilences that lay in wait for him, the unequal strife with ferocious animals! [6]
Good old questionable stories were told that made the tears run down and cavernous mouths stand wide and the round bellies shake with laughter; and questionable songs were bellowed out in a mighty chorus that drowned the boom of the tolling bells. [5]
There was a sound of tramping and scraping outside, and a crowd came solemnly in, with heads uncovered, and laid the two drowned bodies on the bed. [5]
The racial sense so strong in her was drowned in a sense of fellowship. [9]
Their cries and shrieks echoed a long distance, but were destined to be drowned, for a dancing-bear had broken loose and was putting every one near him to flight. [10]
Pale and trembling, she went up to it and gazed down at the drowned man; but only for a moment could she endure the sight. [10]
And with these she delivered a list of 96 missing persons that had drowned or otherwise perished at the scene of the disaster. [5]
This speech had several times been interrupted by applause, but now such a tremendous shout of joy went up that it would have drowned the loudest thunder. [10]
The shed became semidark, and the sharp rattle of the drums on two sides drowned the sick man's groans. [2]
But the wave rose up maliciously, foot by foot, till it drowned their cries for ever in the storm. [11]
He liked to read of war, of encounters with the Indians, of any kind of wholesale killing in glittering uniform, to the noise of the terribly exciting fife and drum, which maddened the combatants and drowned the cries of the wounded. [4]
Tragedy, poignant misery, rang through every note, swelled in a stream which drowned the senses. [11]
And if he raised his voice much, or attempted any extra flights, he was liable to be drowned in a refluent sea of his own eloquence. [4]
I felt that pitcher going and I grabbed at it, but it didn't help any and came right down in Twichell's face and nearly drowned him. [5]
At last the paroxysms passed, and a haggard face looked out into the world of life and being with eyes which were drowned in misery. [11]
A weakness came over him, and the skin of his face became creased and clammy like that of a drowned man; his limbs trembled, so desperate was his passion. [11]
They drowned me out with joyous derision. [5]
The bravery of our free working-people was overlaid, but not smothered; sunken, but not drowned. [6]
They say the other day Matthew Ivanych Platov drove them into the river Marina and drowned some eighteen thousand in one day. [2]
This is the one that was drowned. [5]
This, however, was on the supposition that he had conscientiously kept Sunday, and had not gone in swimming and got drowned. [4]
Then the singing of the wind in the caves drowned the swift roar of rustling leaves; then the song swelled to a mourning, moaning wail; then with the gathering power of the wind the wail changed to a shriek. [13]
But the reader of the Deerslayer tale dislikes the good people in it, is indifferent to the others, and wishes they would all get drowned together. [5]
The wild shouts of the combatants and the yells of the wounded had long since drowned the soft music of the spheres above their heads. [10]
The plaintive moan of reproach was drowned by the threatening and angry roar of the crowd. [2]
Tenant was I of a lone domain; The far pale caravans wound To the rim of the sky, and vanished again; My call in the waste was drowned. [11]
April 20.--The cyclone of 1892 killed and crippled hundreds of people; it was accompanied by a deluge of rain, which drowned Port Louis and produced a water famine. [5]
Certainly he was not intended to be drowned or knifed--he remembered the knives he saw unsheathed--or kicked or pummelled into the hereafter. [11]
We had a noble good time in the Yacht, and caught a Chinese missionary and drowned him. [5]
It opens its Mouth to cry for Help; but if any Sound comes out of him, alas he is drowned by the raging of the Storm. [5]
The dull dank morn stare in, Like a dim drowned face with oozy eyes. [11]
By a seeming miracle he got a semblance of order, recognized his man, and his great voice rang through the hall and drowned all other sounds. [9]
Lienhard's deep voice mingled with her furious cries until the roar of the sea, on whose rocky shore the hurricane must have dashed her, drowned every other sound, and rolled over her, sometimes in scorching crimson, sometimes in icy crystal waves. [10]
Ursula stood before me, her blue eyes drowned in tears--tears for me, telling me that my woe was deep enough and bitter enough to grieve even the ruthless heart of my enemy. [10]
One Sunday he made himself the envy of all the youth and the talk of all the admiring village, by reciting three thousand verses of Scripture without missing a word; then he went off the very next day and got drowned. [5]
It was not long before his body was recognised by a stranger, who chanced to visit that hospital in Paris where the drowned are laid out to be owned; despite the bruises and disfigurements which were said to have been occasioned by some previous scuffle. [12]
I pleaded to linger; I wanted her, more of her, all of her with a fierce desire that drowned rational thought, and I feared that something might still come between us, and cheat me of her. [9]
At home Tom learned of the Cardiff Hill event; also that the "ragged man's" body had eventually been found in the river near the ferry-landing; he had been drowned while trying to escape, perhaps. [5]
When she waked it was near sun-down, the storm had ceased, and, as on the night before, the sky was stained with colour and drowned in splendour. [11]
Mrs. L, an invalid, had to sleep on the locker--sofa under her port, and every time she over-slept and thus failed to take care of herself, the deck-washers drowned her out. [5]
I never get into a very large and lofty saloon without feeling as if I were a weak solution of myself,--my personality almost drowned out in the flood of space about me. [6]
She did the instinctive thing, as did the woman who sent a man a rope as a gift, on the ground that the fortune in his hand said that he was born not to be drowned. [11]
But the night in which the crisis, the fortunate crisis, of the fever occurred, he talked of a great flood coming from the North, and in his half-delirium bade them send to headquarters, and mournfully muttered of drowned plantations and human peril. [11]
To get drowned in the Ganges is one, but that is not pleasant. [5]
Kaid would be in my brother's house at dawn, seizing all that is there and elsewhere, and I on my way to Fazougli, to be strangled or drowned. [11]
The wine offered in libations to the gods already lay in broad pools upon the hard pavement of the hall, the music and singing were drowned in shouts the feast had become an orgy. [10]
She was handsome in almost a mannish sort of way, being of such height and straightness, and her brown eyes had a depth and fire in which more than a few men had drowned themselves. [11]
A distant man in a yellow hunting shirt stumbled, and was drowned in the tangle as in water. [9]
I was so impressed with this, that sometimes when she began to empty one of these sentences on me I unconsciously took the very attitude of reverence, and stood uncovered; and if words had been water, I had been drowned, sure. [5]
I promise to house and feed you, while here the enemy would ruin you..." But her voice was drowned by the voices of the crowd. [2]
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. [2]
The painter had his share of the rapture; he had his six glimpses, and they smote him with waves of pleasure that assaulted him, beat upon him, washed over him deliciously, and drowned out all consciousness of what he was doing with his brush. [5]
This return to his 'madness' broke her heart anew, and she strained him to her breast again and again, and then went back, drowned in tears, to her bed. [5]
Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red Sea. [10]
He raised his helmet, waved salutations to the crowd, and strove to speak, but the uproar drowned his words. [10]
He knew if he slipped, doing what he intended, that both might be drowned, and certainly Mr. Rupert; for the logs were close, and to drop among them was a bad business. [11]
Dazed, half drowned, he had dropped his pistol. [9]
We thought, "If he cannot leave the house, he cannot be drowned. [5]
I judged he had got drowned, and I wasn't ever going to get out any more. [5]
And if I had drowned yesterday, you would, I suppose, have buried me, and have preached a little sermon about me. [11]
And from a great distance, too, her own in reply, drowned as by falling waters. [9]
With a mere glance at the running stream high on the bank and the drowned forest beyond, he turned and faced them. [9]
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]
While we still gazed and enjoyed, the ruin was suddenly enveloped in rolling and rumbling volumes of vaporous green fire; then in dazzling purple ones; then a mixture of many colors followed, then drowned the great fabric in its blended splendors. [5]
I could never forget anything I'd ever heard; it drowned any real thing in me. [11]
You fix up for the drought; you leave your umbrella in the house and sally out, and two to one you get drowned. [5]
This will be enough to last the year, but not more than enough, because hundreds of bees are drowned every day, and other hundreds are eaten by birds, and it is the queen's business to keep the population up to standard--say, fifty thousand. [5]
Noel was wholly drowned out and silenced, and those people were laughing the very lungs out of themselves. [5]
She was not drowned in her bath, as was reported, but died from heart exhaustion, the result of her malady and the shock of cold water. [5]
His words were drowned immediately by shouts of "Seize him! [9]
His voice was drowned and his information lost in a ceaseless roar of cheers, and demands that the money be received now --they swore they would not wait. [5]
You were found drowned and carried to the Morgue and properly identified--not by me, curse you, Lucile Laroche. [11]

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