downcome
Example Sentences
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But my new business seemed to them such a downcome that they passed me by with a cock of the chin.
From Salute to Adventurers by John Buchan
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 George Douglas Brown
John felt the humiliation of this downcome in a far keener way than David did.
From Scottish sketches by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
It be held to be a sure sign that an ailing body will die if there be a downcome of soot.
From The Evolution of an English Town by Gordon Home
Then was I very croose at the manner of our coming off, and minded not that the hardest blaff of downcome is ever gotten at the doorstep.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
