downcome

Example Sentences

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Ay, ay, we're a' subject to a downcome.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander

"God!" he said, "what a downcome for that hoose!"

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

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

Again, that success would be a salve to Gourlay's wounded pride; the Gourlays would show Barbie they could flourish yet, in spite of their present downcome.

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

It's just more bad luck than anything else that you should have gone to the expense of setting up in style in a lord's castle and then having this downcome.

From Count Bunker: being a bald yet veracious chronicle containing some further particulars of two gentlemen whose previous careers were touched upon in a tome entitled the Lunatic at Large by Clouston, J. Storer (Joseph Storer)