10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DOWNCOME»
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downcome in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Homely pearls at random strung. Poems, songs, and sketches
We'll sport the first downcome o' the rent, and drink to our rat huntin' laird and his
game preserve in Gibb's Close.' Some declined the proposal, but others agreed
to it ; and I believe there were several jorams of whisky consumed on this ...
Thomas Watson (of Arbroath.), 1873
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Kathryn McKelvey, Janine Munslow, 2009
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Roderick Hudson (Annotated - Includes Essay and Biography):
Ina moment,ona steep, rocky slope oppositetohim, he behelda figure cautiously
descendinga figure which was notRoderick. It was Singleton, whohad seenhim
andbegan tobeckon tohim. "Come downcome down!" criedthe painter, steadily ...
4
The Three Perils of Woman
... to bathe ; a duck, a bathe doons : very, extremely dose: a large quantity doter:
to walk unsteadily doubt: to be afraid, to suspect dow: (chiefly in negative) to be
unwilling, to lack the strength of mind (to do something) downcome: a downcome,
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James Hogg, Antony Hasler, Douglas S. Mack, 2002
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Scottish Dictionary and Supplement: In Four Volumes. A-Kut
Expressive of inability ; denoting want of inclination, even reluctance or disgust. I
downa. S. DOWNANS, s. pi. Green hillocks. S. DOWNCAST, *. Overthrow. S.
DOWNCOME, Douncome, s. 1. Descent ; the act of descending. The sey coistis
and ...
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Friendship's Offering and Winter's Wreath
... it in song, was the talk of the country side, and more than ane said, her pride
would get a downcome : but no downcome came : her mither took her to task ; it
was an awful thing to hear them at it, as my ain niece, Peg Pater- son, then ane of
...
7
Friendship's Offering: And Winter's Wreath: a Christmas and ...
Her cruelty, as a rhymer called it in song, was the talk of the country side, and
more than ane said, her pride would get a downcome : but no downcome came :
her mither took her to task ; it was an awful thing to hear them at it, as my ain
niece, ...
8
Friendship's offering, or, The Annual remembrancer [afterw.] ...
Her cruelty, as a rhymer called it in song, was the talk of the country side, and
more than ane said, her pride would get a downcome : but no downcome came :
her mither took her to task ; it was an awful thing to hear them at it, as my ain
niece, ...
Thomas Kibble Hervey, 1839
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The cruise of the Midge. By the author of 'Tom Cringle's log'.
It was the vanity of making an appearance before you, my lord, when I ought to
have been thinking only of my Maker and the Gospel, and I have determined to
humble my pride by making this acknowledgment; but I have had a sair
downcome, ...
10
The cruise of the Midge
Well, well, Saunders ; but Durie Squake had the worst of the downcome, I 'm
thinking. However, let it be a lesson to you never to prostrate yourself so abjectly
before a fellow- creature again, even if he should be a lord, Saunders ; but as you
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NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DOWNCOME»
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His prose is lovely, disturbing. Nabokov never stops astounding his …
There's more to a phrase like "slow scintillant downcome" than simple delirious euphony. Beyond Nabokov's easy alliteration and his ... «San Francisco Chronicle, May 04»
