Drowning
Drowning is the process of experiencing respiratory impairment from submersion/immersion in liquid.
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Famous quotes containing the word drowning:
“Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand,
For I am drowning in a stormier sea
Than Simon on thy lake of Galilee:”
—Oscar Wilde (18541900)
“But Nature is no sentimentalist,does not cosset or pamper us. We must see the world is rough and surly, and will not mind drowning a man or a woman; but swallows your ship like a grain of dust.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“The Wye is hushd nor moved along,
And hushd my deepest grief of all,
When filld with tears that cannot fall,
I brim with sorrow drowning song.”
—Alfred Tennyson (18091892)
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