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Meanings of drown man in English

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Usage of drown man in English
1
She grasped at the straw with the eagerness of a drowning man.
Virgie's Inheritance
2
We are in sore straits and a drowning man snatches at straws.
The Maid of the Whispering Hills
3
But Mr. Polly recovered it with the clutch of a drowning man.
The History of Mr. Polly
4
I scanned the waters carefully, but the drowning man had gone down.
Blindfolded
5
To that I clung as the drowning man to his last plank.
Confession; Or, The Blind Heart. A Domestic Story
6
One had the impression of a drowning man catching at a straw.
The Riddle of the Rhine: Chemical Strategy in Peace and War
7
His ruddy face became swollen like the features of a drowned man.
Harrigan
8
The professor seized Zeb's boots with the grasp of a drowning man.
The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone
9
But this hope is but as a straw to a drowning man.
The Lock and Key Library: The Most Interesting Stories of All Na...
10
Armand caught at his words like a drowning man at a reed.
El Dorado: An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel
11
He made a sign, more despairing than any drowning man ever made.
The Lerouge Case
12
What if the tackle had caught the body of some drowned man?
The High School Boys' Canoe Club
13
Ned's trembling hand caught the reins as a drowning man a straw.
The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln
14
I think it's a case of a drowning man grasping a straw.
The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln
15
I attend you just as a Newfoundland dog saves a drowning man.'
The Doctor's Dilemma
16
Dripping with wet were they, like three drowned men at the resurrec-Ahem
Fanshawe