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Definition of Drowners
1. drowner [n] - See also: drowner
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drowners
Literary usage of Drowners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tragic Episodes of the French Revolution in Brittany: With Unpublished Documents by G. Lenotre (1912)
"But the drowners shot people as well. He'risson, pork-butcher, testifies : " I
had the pain of seeing my children taken away from me to be drowned. ..."
2. ... The French Revolution by Hippolyte Taine (1885)
"The drowners made quite free with the women, even using them for their own purposes
when pleased with them, which women, in token of their kindness, ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1841)
"In truth, ignorant people are always great destroyers of suburbs—great drowners
of countries,—whilst well-informed men are great preservers \conservateurs\; ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1880)
"drowners, however, have their caprices. They do not all put themselves into the
water in the same way. In country districts, for instance, ..."
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