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
But is not the bringing in of the 'reward' as a motive a woful downcome? and is love that loves for the sake of reward, love at all?
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Alexander Maclaren
Ay, ay, we're a' subject to a downcome.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
"God!" he said, "what a downcome for that hoose!"
From The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown
My ain grandfather, who was the son of a great farmer, hired himsell for a shepherd at that time to young Tam Linton; and mony ane was wae for the downcome.
From The Shepherd's Calendar Volume I (of II) by James Hogg
