drowned

Example Sentences

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“I missed it. Hey, Will, ain’t thet the barrel with them drownded rats yore daddy said to bury?”

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

"Praise the saints ye're not drownded entoirely!" cried Biddy, giving Charlie a smacking kiss, much to his disgust.

From Bosom Friends A Seaside Story by Brazil, Angela

“Hi drownded a pig hin the well one day ’e went to town an’ wouldn’t take me,” said London, proudly.

From The Bail Jumper by Stead, Robert J. C.

I wish’t hit was me dat done gone to respec’ dat ole Watkin’s Lateral, den I’d ’a’ been drownded, an’ he wouldn’t!”

From Two Wyoming Girls and Their Homestead Claim A Story for Girls by Marshall, Carrie L.

If she's drownded she's no witch; but if she swims, its gospel proof she is—coz what old woman could swim if she warn't a nat'ral witch.

From Captain Kyd, Vol. II or, The Wizard of the Sea by Ingraham, Jonathon Holt