noyade

• Any man who should have the courage to fill his pockets with pebbles would not fail to find death, and never be seen thereafter At the time while he admired the lovely miniature of a landscape, the poet had thought to himself, "'Tis a spot to make your mouth water for a noyade He thought of it now as he went down into L'Houmeau; and when he took his way towards Marsac, with the last sombre thoughts gnawing at his heart, it was with the firm resolve to hide his death. —  Lost Illusions
• "What, Walter; haven't you the grace to wait for me, after my having delivered you from such a noyade? —  St. Winifred's, or The World of School
• Finding a rate of 200 executions a day insufficient he invented the noyade. —  The French Revolution A Short History
• The stately bridge was occupied by a throng of people, who swore that the men under whose rule the Loire had been choked with corpses should have full personal experience of the nature of a _noyade_. —  Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)
• Two months afterwards, when the gates of Toulon had been opened to the army, and I was assisting at a noyade, I had the pleasure of seeing my jacobin _locum tenens_, who had been denounced in his turn, tied back to back to a female; it was my adored Cerise. —  The Pacha of Many Tales

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms