downcome
Example Sentences
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Ay, ay, we're a' subject to a downcome.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
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
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
It was a sair downcome fra them to the Glasgo' pavements.
From Scottish sketches by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
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
