downcome

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Within the last few years your temper has been sorely tried, and your heart too, God knows; for our trials and our downcome in this world has been great.

From The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by Carleton, William

Then was I very croose at the manner of our coming off, and minded not that the hardest blaff of downcome is ever gotten at the doorstep.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

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 Maclaren, Alexander

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 Spence, Catherine Helen

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 Home, Gordon