When he was a child, his parents and another older brother were drowned while walking across the frozen channel to the island where his father kept the lighthouse.
The Severn flooded in 1607, drowning livestock across Wales on one side, Somerset and Gloucestershire on the other.
Washington Irving offers another explanation of the origin of the name in his 1809 "Knickerbocker's History of New York": a Dutchman, Antony van Corlear, drowned after vowing to swim across the river "in spite of the devil," or "spyt den duyvil".
She told us about pursuing writing and poetry, despite her family's pressure to study something more practical like medicine, law, or engineering; a website she's creating to share the art of female "wanderers"; and shared a poem titled "A Cyclical Sacrifice," which remembers Nuer boys who drowned while trying to swim across the Nile in order to escape the civil war. .
They worked so intensely that the sound of chalk moving across paper drowned out the whirl of a fan above.
On Kiswick Street, where Mr. Contrubis drowned, Firefighter Guida came across four members of a stranded family and their large dog.
On February 11, four refugees drowned attempting the trip across the lake.
In Fallujah and surrounding areas, which saw about 100,000 people leave after an offensive in May, some were killed by improvised explosive devices and others drowned trying to escape across a river.
That was doubly so (if not more) in Mr. Glass's Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists (2000), if only because the persistent thunder of two percussionists rolling their mallets across eight timpani drowned out the orchestra most of the time.
A14 NEW YORK/REGION B1-6 Lake Deaths Cast Shadow As Seasons Change A boating accident on Oct. 2 in which 20 passengers drowned has cast a shadow across Lake George, a popular tourist destination about 200 miles north of New York City.
