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Definition of Drowning:
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If a Bania is drowning you should not give him your hand; he is sure to have some pecuniary motive for drifting down- stream.
- "The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II", R. V. Russell. -
Harold and his cousins had scarcely more than fully recovered from the effects of their almost drowning when Captain Raymond again received orders to join his ship, and it was decided that the time had come for all to leave the island.
- "Elsie at Nantucket", Martha Finley. -
A few days after the drowning of the runaway, Sam Clemens and his band made their way to the place and were pushing the drift about, when, all at once, the negro shot up out of the water, straight and terrible, a full half- length in the air.
- "The Boys' Life of Mark Twain", Albert Bigelow Paine.