Lexicographical Neighbors of Drownds
Literary usage of Drownds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1854)
"... always two or three, "They drownds theirselves in milk-jugs and gets into the
tea, I've no patience with the rebels : ah—drat them tiresome flies ! ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1849)
"And that's this : that though too much vorter drownds a man, and too much hair
kills a fish, yit a fish can't do vithout a little hair, and a man can't do ..."
3. Minor Poets of the Caroline Period by George Saintsbury (1906)
"... Salutes her breast with many weeping wounds, Then casts herself into the
spring, and drownds. 420 There is a hill in Paphlagonia, ..."
4. Godey's Magazine by Louis Antoine Godey, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1849)
"So she talks up so awful loud that she drownds everybody else's voice, and they
have to listen tew her whether or no. I was to a party a spell ago where she ..."
5. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society, John Harland, Manchester (England). Court-Leet (1861)
"... Amaryllis face To the Chrystall running brookes: Giues my muse a sower disgrace :
Where I Corydon did dwel, drownds in Lethe all my arte, ..."
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