"Should we lose the schooner, Captain Gar'ner, few of us would escape drowning, to feel remorse or joy.

When all around the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl, To-who; Tu-whit, to-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.

In truth, Westcott had had an uncomfortable time during the week that followed the drowning.

If the Holy River holds (drowns) him he who enchanted him shall take his house.

" "Well, den I s'pose 'ere war' one Yankee; but I, know all war' drown, for 'e Gubbenor lose he fine coach-horses in dat werry-boat.

As for myself, I saw nothing but danger on the coast of Africa, and I preferred drowning to being made a slave, and conducted to Morocco or Algiers.

"For rescuing the drowning only; and they are a great nuisance to carry around in one's baggage.

Could he have dreamed of what was coming, he would have jumped overboard and risked drowning in his attempt to reach land.

As it was, he went to the East Indies, and later we read in the papers of a great shipwreck, that Allan Woodcourt had worked like a hero to save the drowning, and succour the survivors.

Well my dear Brother, if I scape this drowning, 'tis your turn next to sink, you shall duck twice before I help you.

Then she told him how Hope had seen her drowning, a mile off, with it, and ridden a bare-backed steed to her rescue.

If anyone associated the reported drowning with the event of the bank robbery, they never so expressed themselves, nor was his whereabouts during his absence discussed in other than a friendly way.

They were fellow-victims in the noyade of marriage, but if they ceased to struggle perhaps the drowning would be easier for both...

But now that I have left the shore, instead of the trifling river I expected, the ocean with its towering waves appears before me, so that, if it were possible, in order to avoid drowning, I would gladly retrace my steps to the dry land whence I started.