Thomas Gray wrote an elegy for a cat who died in this way.
This is the method of Daniel Quilp's death in The Old Curiosity Shop. Frankenstein's monster is shot after saving a girl from dying in this fashion. Thomas Gray wrote an elegy for a cat who died in this way. After falling out of a willow tree, Ophelia dies in this way in Hamlet. Also the real-life cause of death of Virginia Woolf and Percy Shelley is, for 10 points, what action that, in a Leigh Hunt poem, happened to Leander while trying to swim the Hellespont?
This is the method of Daniel Quilp's death in The Old Curiosity Shop.
drowning