Finding a rate of 200 executions a day insufficient he invented the noyade. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution A Short History] Reference
They were fellow-victims in the noyade of marriage, but if they ceased to struggle perhaps the drowning would be easier for both. From Wordnik.com. [The Custom of the Country] Reference
It is not easy to give a notion of his conduct in the Convention, without using those emphatic terms, guillotinade, noyade, fusillade, mitraillade. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2] Reference
"That Lefevre is proved to have ordered and caused to be executed a noyade of men, women, and children, and to have committed various arbitrary acts. From Wordnik.com. [A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners] Reference
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.”. From Wordnik.com. [Eve and David] Reference
A great many writers, I think, might be saved in this way, but there would still be left the Corellis and Hall Caines that one could do nothing with except bind them back to back, which would not even tantalise them, and throw them into the river, a new noyade: the Thames at Barking, I think, would be about the place for them ....”. From Wordnik.com. [Oscar Wilde]
"What, Walter; haven't you the grace to wait for me, after my having delivered you from such a noyade?. From Wordnik.com. [St. Winifred's, or The World of School] Reference
“That Lefevre is proved to have ordered and caused to be executed a noyade of men, women, and children, and to have committed various arbitrary acts. From Wordnik.com. [A Residence in France During the Years 1792 1793 1794 and 1795]
The Edinburgh Review, Century Magazine, and others that provided intellectuals with a worldwide communications network on such diverse subjects as Shakespeariana, Danteiana, the origin of visiting cards, the etymologies of words like punch, noyade, and ha-ha, amendments and emendations to the Dictionary of National Biography, showers of frogs, pub names, usage and grammar, ancient customs, superstitions, law, dialecticisms, rhyming slang, and the longevity of horses. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVII No 4] Reference
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