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Definition of Drownings
1. drowning [n] - See also: drowning
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drownings
Literary usage of Drownings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Brutality Unchecked: Human Rights Abuses Along the U. S. Border with Mexico by Human Rights Watch (Organization, Human Rights Watch (Organization), Americas Watch Committee (U.S.) (1992)
"... drownings and suggested that Border Patrol agents deliberately herded workers
toward irrigation canals, which they used as barriers. ..."
2. History of the Island of St. Domingo: From Its First Discovery by Columbus by James Barskett (1824)
"Their cruel attempts to exterminate the negroes, by massacres, by drownings, and
by blood-hounds employed to hunt them down.—Death of General Le Clerc. ..."
3. Memoirs of Marmontel, Written by Himself: Containing His Literary and by Jean François Marmontel (1807)
"What made humanity shudder, the drownings of Carrier in the Loire, the cannonades
with case-shot of Collot-d'Herbois at Lyons, obtained honourable mention ..."
4. Land, Labour, and Gold: Or, Two Years in Victoria with Visits to Sydney and by William Howitt (1858)
"Fearful State of the Melbourne Road at Bendigo.— Author gets it repaired, and
what comes of it. — drownings of Drunken Men. — Liabilities of a Dinner-party. ..."
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