downcome
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"God!" he said, "what a downcome for that hoose!"
From The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown
"Pride will have a downcome," said some, with a gleg look and a smack of the lip, trying to veil their personal malevolence in a common proverb.
From The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown
Ay, ay—no doubt—no doubt," said the Bailie, briskly, "but we are all subject to a downcome, and it comes hard on those that have held their heads high.
From Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North by Sir Walter Scott
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
At the downcome of darkness Up to the trenches Fared he forth, Sidni the Storeman.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 26, 1917 by Various
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