He detached himself from the tilting control panel and sailed wildly about like a hydrophobic goldfish in a bowl of water.
"Master of the Moondog"
Stanley Mullen
So when the cleanly infidels were driven out of Granada, the pious and hydrophobic Cardinal Ximenez persuaded the Catholic sovereigns to destroy the abomination of baths they left behind.
"Castilian Days"
John Hay
Hydrophobia was by our forefathers graphically called water-fright: it was well named, for the horror of swallowing water is, by an hydrophobic patient, most intense, and is the leading symptom of this fell and incurable disease.
"Advice to a Mother on the Management of her Children"
Pye Henry Chavasse