downcome

Example Sentences

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"Pride will have a downcome," said some, with a gleg look and a smack of the lip, trying to veil their personal malevolence in a common proverb.

From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas

"Thou maun do without horse-sheet and surcingle now, lad," he said, addressing the animal; "you and me hae had a downcome alike; we had better hae fa'en i, the deepest pool o' Tarras."

From The Black Dwarf by Scott, Walter, Sir

Within the last few years your temper has been sorely tried, and your heart too, God knows; for our trials and our downcome in this world has been great.

From The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by Carleton, William

Peggy was anxious to make the girls as happy as she could, and feared that they must feel this a downcome; but her hands were full of work, and her head of cares.

From Mr. Hogarth's Will by Spence, Catherine Helen

What a downcome from his dignity to be the patron of a golf course or the chaplain of a curling club, instead of enjoying the fame and name of the holy well.

From Chronicles of Strathearn by Macdougall, W. B.