Drowning Sentence Examples

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  • Rescue the drowning and tie your shoestrings.

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  • Say you're a world class swimmer and spot a drowning man.

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  • Confusion flooded Cynthia's mind, drowning her in doubt and questions.

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  • Children ages one to four are at the highest risk of drowning.

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  • You may be surprised to learn that drowning is the leading cause of death for children between the ages of one-four years.

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  • Christina (martyred by drowning in the lake, according to the legend, in 278) which dates from the 11th century and contains some frescoes, perhaps of the school of Giotto.

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  • Emergency medical aid should be sought with any near drowning incident.

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  • Adultery was punished with the death of both parties by drowning, but if the husband was willing to pardon his wife, the king might intervene to pardon the paramour.

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  • A popular example is Bodies by Drowning Pool.

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  • In 2000, the leading cause of fatal accidental injury among children was motor vehicle occupant injury (28%), followed by drowning (16%) and airway obstruction injury (14%).

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  • Drowning remains the second leading cause of accidental injury-related deaths among children ages 14 and under, claiming 943 children in 2000.

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  • The rate of near drowning is much higher, as not all near drownings are reported.

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  • Even a child who appears to have recovered should be checked by a physician, since some internal reactions to near drowning can be delayed.

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  • Alarms can be purchased for pool fences to protect young children from drowning.

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  • For ease and convenience, Sea World California packages can't be beat, and guests who opt for these coordinated plans can dive into their getaway without worrying about drowning in details.

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  • In turn, this makes ticket prices high, but savvy park guests can find Sea World discounts that allow them to enjoy all these parks have to offer without drowning under a tidal wave of dollar signs.

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  • Certain corrosive vapors trigger the body to flood the lungs with fluids, effectively drowning the person.

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  • Parents should enroll their child in swimming lessons when they are old enough (usually not before age four), but should remember that these lessons do not provide protection against drowning for children of any age.

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  • The total cost of alcohol use by young people, including automobile crashes, violent crime, alcohol poisoning, burns, drowning, suicide attempts, and fetal alcohol syndrome is more than 58 billion dollars each year.

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  • Drowning is always fatal, but near-drowning may result in survival with no long-lasting effects; survival with permanent damage, usually to the brain; or death after a 24-hour survival period.

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  • Drowning is the second leading cause of injury-related deaths in children ages one month to 14 years of age in the United States as a whole, and the first leading cause of injury-related deaths in California, Arizona, and Florida.

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  • It is estimated that for every drowning, there are four additional hospitalizations and 14 additional emergency room visits due to near drowning.

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  • Children under age four and between 15 and 19 years of age are at highest risk of drowning or near drowning.

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  • When drowning begins, the larynx (a part of the air passage) closes involuntarily, preventing both air and water from entering the lungs.

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  • This is called "dry drowning," and no water is breathed into the lungs.

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  • Individuals who are close to drowning can also regurgitate their stomach contents and breathe these into the lungs.

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  • Individuals are observed for the development of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) or multi-organ failure, both of which can develop after near drowning.

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  • Pneumonia is common following near drowning and often develops within the first 24 hours.

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  • Teens and adults should be educated to understand that alcohol and illicit drug use substantially increase the chances of a drowning accident.

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  • Parents should be aware that physicians are required to consider the possibility of child abuse in every drowning or near drowning involving a child under the age of one year.

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  • In newborns, the most common cause of cardiopulmonary arrest is respiratory failure caused by sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), airway obstruction (usually from inhalation of a foreign body), sepsis, neurologic disease, or drowning.

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  • Because most cardiopulmonary arrest in infants and children occurs in or around the home and results from SIDS, trauma, drowning, choking, or poisoning, all parents and child caregivers should consider becoming trained in CPR.

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  • The leading causes of injuries to children at home are burns, drowning, poisoning, cuts, and falls.

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  • If you find yourself suddenly drowning in samples of all kinds, consider using them for other purposes instead of filling your shower with bottles and packets galore.

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  • Swimming continued to be encouraged, but only as a lifesaving technique to prevent drowning.

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  • Not only is it still the best insurance against drowning, it is a pleasurable and excellent form of exercise.

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  • In addition to helping to prevent drowning, this is an ideal age to take up the skill as children are open to learning and are probably not yet afraid of the water.

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  • More than one in five of drowning deaths occur in children aged 14 and younger.

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  • Drowning is also the second leading cause of unintentional death in children between the ages of one and fourteen.

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  • Many of the children between the ages of one and four who experienced unintentional drowning were left unsupervised near water for less than five minutes.

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  • According to WebMD the most common causes of accidental injury or death in young children are motor vehicles, drowning, burns, falls, poisoning and guns.

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  • She jumps from a cliff and sees Edward underwater, but Jacob saves her from drowning.

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  • The recent drowning is highlighted by a local "psychic" as things start to get even weirder.

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  • One woman reports drowning while kayaking in Hawaii.

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  • Meredith nearly dies after drowning, and meets some of her deceased patients, including Denny.

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  • This cause outnumbers any other cause of death for this age group including drowning, diseases or suicide.

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  • There is the freezing cold, high winds, wild waves and the possibility of drowning as far as the weather goes.

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  • Nicole, the Benford's babysitter, returns to her babysitting duties and confesses to Mark that she saw herself drowning.

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  • Even if the bones were discovered and it was known the drowning was a ruse, no one would have suspected you boys.

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  • There must be a newspaper account of the drowning someplace.

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  • The drowning happened right there in Pinkville, Virginia, not on some far off canoeing trip, like Edith said!

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  • The drowning in a pool could have been just as traumatic as Edith's version, especially if Donnie felt some responsibility for his stepbrother's death.

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  • Sure, it looks like a phony and we've got to check it out, but my money says it's a drowning.

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  • Sorry to disappoint you, Sherlock, but it looks like a simple drowning.

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  • The guy skipped out with his sec­retary after he faked his drowning and embezzled a million dol­lars.

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  • Just because Byrne might have gotten a quickie two months ago doesn't mean he faked his drowning and skipped.

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  • Once again there was no evidence to make Jeffrey Byrne's death anything but an accidental drowning.

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  • Her own breath was loud in her ears, the sound of her horse's hooves drowning out everything else.

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  • The contracts naturally do not concern such criminal cases as the above, as a rule, but marriage contracts do specify death by strangling, drowning, precipitation from a tower or pinnacle of the temple or by the iron sword for a wife's repudiation of her husband.

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  • The body of Shelley was burned on the shore near Viareggio after his death by drowning in 1822.

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  • Being pursued by Minos, king of Crete, who was enamoured of her, she sprang from a rock into the sea, but was saved from drowning by falling into some fishermen's nets.

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  • They were crossing the Euphrates, not far from the castle of Jaber, when the drowning of their leader by accident threw confusion into their ranks.

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  • The harbour of Mobile was formed by the drowning of the lower part of the valley of the Alabama and Tombigbee rivers as a result of the sinking of the land here, such sinking having occurred on other parts of the Gulf coast.

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  • After a short time he returned at the head of an army, and some engagements ensued, in the last of which Shirkas Bey met his end by drowning; Dhul-Fiqar was himself assassinated in.

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  • On or in this confused mass many of the inhabitants were saved from drowning, only to be burned alive when it caught fire.

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  • He took part in the battle of Aboukir (July 2 5, 1 799), was driven into the sea with the routed Turks, and was saved from drowning by the gig of the British admiral, Sir Sidney Smith.

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  • On the 7th of March 1526 the Zurich Rath issued an edict threatening all who were baptized anew with death by drowning, and in 1529 the emperor Charles V., at the diet of Spires, ordered Anabaptists to be put to death with fire and sword without even the form of ecclesiastical trial.

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  • To be but a hand's-breadth below the surface of the sea ensures drowning as infallibly as to be five hundred fathoms deep. Now the wise man is drawn as perfect.

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  • Baptism was the first plank thrown out to save the drowning man, "confession" the second, and there was no third chance.

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  • Yet Turreau's crimes were almost surpassed by Carrier, the representative on mission at Nantes, who, finding the guillotine too slow in the destruction of his prisoners, adopted the plan of drowning them wholesale.

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  • Its specific lightness, combined with strength and durability, recommend it above all other substances for forming life-buoys, belts and jackets, and in the construction of life-boats and other apparatus for saving from drowning.

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  • In the following year he had two narrow escapes from drowning.

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  • Darkyn played keep away, until she was drowning in heat, desire and the hot hunger that felt like it was going to consume her.

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  • She groaned at the sensations he caused, soon drowning in the scent of blood and need to feel him inside her.

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  • Well, I figured the drowning of a child ought to make a big city paper and sure enough, after I checked a few of my sources and a couple of papers, I hit pay dirt!

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  • Ms. Rosewater says the more thorough the investigation into Jeff's drowning, the better the chance to have a judge issue a death certificate.

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  • Put a lock on the toilet to prevent accidental drowning; toddlers can drown in a few inches of water.

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  • I feel like sitting in a pub and drowning my pain in good booze and good company, but I'll be there.

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  • For these smaller cetaceans, entanglement can cause death by drowning.

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  • The water is very cold for most of the ear and can cause cramps and lead to drowning if not careful.

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  • Related comment - Politics The Red Flag not waving but drowning facing how many directions at once?

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  • With the release of new single ' Drowning ' they will be hoping to revive their recently flagging fortunes.

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  • An additional cause of accidental death to otters can be drowning in eel fyke nets.

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  • Other heart-rending events have involved children's long hair being caught in pool water pump inlets, which have also led to drowning.

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  • Barbara buried her face in Mary's black mane, drowning her fear in the acidic alien scent of the fine silken hair.

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  • Once he rescued three boys from drowning in a choppy sea.

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  • The jury returned a verdict that the deceased was accidentally suffocated by drowning.

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  • A little further on they came on a drowning tragedy.

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  • An appeal to perishing sinners to trust in Christ is like calling on a drowning wretch to climb the embankment wall.

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  • An inundation of the Tiber swept away a large part of Rome, destroying fields, drowning cattle, and causing a famine (162); then came earthquakes, fires and plagues of insects; the soldiers in Britain tried to induce their general Statius Priscus to proclaim himself emperor; finally, the Parthians under Vologaeses III.

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  • It is here that an irrigation project, involving the diversion of some of the river water to the low plain, led to disaster in 1904, when the flooded river washed away the canal gates at the intake and overflowed the plain, drowning the newly established farms, compelling a railway to shift its track, and forming a lake (Salton Sea) which would require years of evaporation to remove (see COLORADO RIvER).

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  • A sinking man who clutches at another and drowns him; or a hungry mother exhausted by feeding her baby, who steals some food; or a man trained to discipline who on duty at the word of command kills a defenseless man-- seem less guilty, that is, less free and more subject to the law of necessity, to one who knows the circumstances in which these people were placed, and more free to one who does not know that the man was himself drowning, that the mother was hungry, that the soldier was in the ranks, and so on.

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  • Many are killed through shooting, drowning or being sold to vivisection labs or by being abandoned.

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  • Drowning your sorrows in eggnog will only make you feel worse in the long run.

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  • Out of fear of drowning, some children abhor the thought of swimming.

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  • Polar bears in the North Pole are drowning as the ice that they live on disappears.

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  • The cameras are loaded with innovative technology, which allows you to snap incredible underwater shots without drowning in debt to do so.

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  • Natalie Wood - A lifelong fear of water plagued the actress, who died tragically after drowning in 1981 at the age of 43.

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  • Air bubbles are pumped in to the solution to keep the roots from drowning.

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  • However, wool is "nature's air conditioner" -- wicking away moisture so you won't wake up drowning in sweat.

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  • Skirts that are too long tend to have the same "drowning" effect as excess fabric, and contribute to a rather dowdy, unflattering appearance.

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  • Parents need to teach their children about the risks of drowning in the cold weather months.

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  • Parents should not leave small children alone in the bath because of the risk of drowning.

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  • The blood may increase in acidity (acidosis) and, under some circumstances, near drowning can cause a substantial increase or decrease in the volume of circulating blood.

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  • Hypoxemia also occurs in "wet drowning," when the larynx relaxes and water enters the lungs.

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  • Drowning and near drowning are almost always preventable.

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  • I'd like to hear Donnie's side of the story about the drowning of Shipton's son, too.

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  • Wouldn't you wonder if everyone was really buying the drowning bit?

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  • At the close of the war he was appointed by President Johnson secretary of Montana Territory, and there, in the absence of the territorial governor, he acted as governor from September 1866 until his death from accidental drowning in the Missouri River near Fort Benton, Montana, on the 1st of July 1867.

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  • The earth is conceived of as a round disk, slightly sloping towards the south, surrounded on three sides by the sea, but on the north by a high mountain of turquoises; behind this is the abode of the blest, a sort of inferior paradise, inhabited by the Egyptians who were saved from drowning with Pharaoh in the Red Sea, and whom the Mandaeans look upon as their ancestors, Pharaoh himself having been their first high priest and king.

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  • The rivers flow across the plain in broad, level valleys, only a few hundred or even only a few dozen feet lower than the watersheds; they separate into many branches, enclosing islands, forming creeks, and drowning wide tracts of land during inundations.

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  • To walk in a winter morning in a wood where these birds abounded, their native woods, and hear the wild cockerels crow on the trees, clear and shrill for miles over the resounding earth, drowning the feebler notes of other birds--think of it!

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  • If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.

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  • Bagration rode up to the ranks along which shots crackled now here and now there, drowning the sound of voices and the shouts of command.

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  • The ice, that had held under those on foot, collapsed in a great mass, and some forty men who were on it dashed, some forward and some back, drowning one another.

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  • They tried to make their way forward to the opposite bank and, though there was a ford one third of a mile away, were proud that they were swimming and drowning in this river under the eyes of the man who sat on the log and was not even looking at what they were doing.

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  • Her heart and breathing drowning out every other sound, she raced down the hall and around a corner, sliding to a stop as she saw the men headed her way.

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  • At Arginusae (406) he fought as a simple ship's captain, but after the battle was commissioned by the generals to rescue some drowning crews, an order which, with his ill-trained and exhausted troops, in a heavy storm, he was unable to carry out.

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  • In the open desert rain falls even more rarely, but it is by no means unknown, and from time to time heavy storms burst, causing sudden floods in the narrow ravines, and drowning both men and animals These are more common in the mountainous region of the Sinai peninsula, where they are much dreaded by the Arabs.

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  • From Nancy he marched against the Swiss, hanging and drowning the garrison of Granson in spite of the capitulation.

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  • Mannhardt, who by comparing numerous examples of similar customs among other European peoples arrived at the conclusion that the rite was of extreme antiquity and of dramatic rather than sacrificial character, and that its object was possibly to procure rain; (2) that of Wissowa, who refuses to date it farther back than the latter half of the 3rd century B.C., and sees in it the yearly representation of an original sacrifice of twentyseven captive Greeks (taking Argei as a Latin form of 'Ap-yE701) by drowning in the Tiber.

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  • Xander was right; she was drowning, and he was all that kept her from going under.

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  • At least he wasn't burning or drowning or freezing or watching his skin being pulled from his body and screaming.

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  • It has developed a definite instinct to save human beings from drowning, this probably being an evolution of the retrieving instinct of the original spaniels.

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  • Now, how was Arion saved from drowning when he leaped overboard?

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