downcome
Example Sentences
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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 was a sair downcome fra them to the Glasgo' pavements.
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
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 W. B. Macdougall
Looking after sheep in the desert was a sad downcome from the possibility of sitting on the throne of Egypt.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture by Alexander Maclaren
