The river curved off to the left through more drowned land.
Rather than slackening, the rain seemed to increase in tempo, and hid the sorry drowned land from them behind a glassy curtain.
Then above the ice-filled chaoses, the crackled ice smoother by far than the drowned land below it had been.
Gloom deepened; the plain sank from sight like a drowned land.
As the flood waters subsided, draining into shallow pools and river valleys, the drowned land emerged, glistening.
In this way they were able to preserve their traditions and skills, but it was an embittered few that returned to their drowned land.
This is possibly one of the sources for stories of drowned lands, e.g. Lyonesse.
Four years later the drowned land reached into what is now Belgium.
In 1690 he was commissioner for drowned lands.
And beyond the Sound we flew over a drowned land, all lakes, with the sea lochs reaching long, wet fingers into it.