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A poem by, roger drowne ec of rogerart. com the Cu$h/Bheney/Love USA
Think Progress » The “Broader Conspiracy”: What We Already Know About the White House Iraq Group 2005
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Before I will suffer any such shame as thou intendest towards mee, I will drowne my selfe heere in this Well before our doore, where being found dead, and thy villanous jealousie so apparantly knowne, beside thy more then beastly drunkennesse: all the neighbours will constantly beleeve, that thou didst first strangle me in the house, and afterwardes threw me into this Well.
The Decameron 2004
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Tanda standeth from the riuer Ganges a league, because in times past the riuer flowing ouer the bankes, in time of raine did drowne the countrey and many villages, and so they do remaine.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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All the countrie is set with Bambos or Canes made sharpe at both the endes and driuen into the earth, and they can let in the water and drowne the ground aboue knee deepe, so that men nor horses can passe.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Galleyes or Fusts by Sea, and by land he hath certaine sluses with the which when the king of Pegu pretendeth any harme towards him, hee may at his pleasure drowne a great part of the Countrey.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Turks, or to drowne and strangle them willingly in the water?
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Turks, or to drowne and strangle them willingly in the water?
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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A little later we read of sixpence paid "to one that did whipp the mayde that would drowne herself"; from which it is clear that the town did not encourage suicide.
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*** Full often hath my breast swollen with keeping my sighes imprisoned: full often have the teares I draue back from mine eyes turned back to drowne my heart.
A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman
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And therefore they had rather drowne their substance
Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman
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