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There was a substantial age gap between me and my siblings, and I could usually be counted on to keep the little ones undrowned, unelectrocuted, fed, watered, rediapered.

From The New Yorker • May 25, 2015

He was here, undrowned, and the voyage had offered certain other amusements.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

Whether the asphyxiated artist really comes undrowned again, and returns rich from America, nothing could persuade us to tell, as we disapprove of the premature revelation of plots.

From Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 by Various

And Raveloe was a village where many of the old echoes lingered, undrowned by new voices.

From Silas Marner by Eliot, George

How perfect is that vignette of Raveloe—"a village where many of the old echoes lingered, undrowned by new voices"—with its "strange lingering echoes of the old demon-worship among the grey-haired peasantry"!

From Studies in Early Victorian Literature by Harrison, Frederic