"But you won't let us drown!" exclaimed one of the enemy.

"There is plenty of room for those fellows in here," he said, "but shall we let them in?" "We can't see them drown," said Frank.

We don't want to drown out here.

We can't see them drown before our eyes.

"Rather glad I didn't drown you," he said, intending to be pleasant.

Surely you would not leave them to drown?" "No; they would have to be released with the others, after the division had been made.

They hitch the mules to fences outside the tent, and while the performance is going on the mules bray in concert and drown the band.

"Cantys given outhe's going to drown!" gasped Midshipman Dan, with horror.

On, Stafford, there have been times, black times, when I learned to know why some women fly to drink to drown their misery: and our misery is as keen, yes, keener than yours.

"See to it that every strap and cord is secure, for if she should fall she would drown," said the sheriff, and the men drew the leather straps tight, while Ann Linkon continued to rail and abuse all about her.

There was, fortunately, on the wires a singing sound that would serve to drown evidences of emotion in the nobleman's tone.

"You will drown, if you go in that thing," said a bystander.

He was trying to divert himself, trying to drown his thought, as people try who are suffering from the reproaches of conscience.

Then you think Lucy didn't drown herself?"

But thou wilt not drown the poor fellow; wilt thou?

Organ accompaniments help up good choirs and materially drown the defects of bad ones.

Oft on this terrace, when the day Was closing, have I stood and gazed, And seen the landscape fade away, And the white vapors rise and drown Hamlet and vineyard, tower and town While far above the hilltops blazed.

This seemed the more annoying because there were few people in the restaurant to drown with chatter the sound of those two voices and because, in spite of their guarded tones, their table was one so situated that some freak of acoustics carried every syllable uttered at it, even though whispered, to the quick ears at the cashier's desk.

They go out and fill up on beefsteak while we have to stick around and drown our sorrows in a cheese sandwich.

I shall live in peace and quiet near some good cafe and drown my old age in mixed drinks.

You've got that longing feeling that there's nothing satisfies, And your pard can't interest you, no matter how he tries, You're lonesome, moody, restless, out at Camp, or in the Town Your mind will not rest easy, and your troubles will not drown.

Nor for any kingdom of earth, either, unless it be for the wicked little kingdom of the Prince of Monaco, where there are but two things to be done,gamble, or drown yourself.

In the Indies, they burn their dead; and it is customary for men and women to desire their families to throw them into the fire or to drown them, when they are grown old, or perceive themselves to sink under the pressure of disease, firmly believing that they are to return into other bodies.

He is indeed like the red dragon that pursued the woman, for when he cannot over-reach another, he opens his mouth and throws a flood after to drown him.

If the game be up once, and the hounds in chase, you shall see how he will prick up his ears straight, and tickle at the sport as much as his rider shall, and laugh so loud, that if there be many of them, they will even drown the rural harmony of the dogs.