downcome
Example Sentences
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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 Catherine Helen Spence
Besides Jamie might not like it; and for many other reasons, the little downcome would press hardest upon Christina.
From A Knight of the Nets by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
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 J. Storer (Joseph Storer) Clouston
But little cause have I to speak, for I too am a downcome.
From The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies by John Buchan
It was a downcome, though, for a man who had been proud of driving behind his own horseflesh to pack in among a crowd of the Barbie sprats.
From The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown
