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With this in mind, I inhaled the cotton with the urgent indignity of a drowner spat upon dry land.

From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2020

As the drowner was about to sink, Signorina Mussolini grabbed her, managed to keep her afloat until an armada of rowboated rescuers arrived.

From Time Magazine Archive