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

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.

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

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...