It's just more bad luck than anything else that you should have gone to the expense of setting up in style in a lord's castle and then having this downcome. ❋ Unknown (1907)
But little cause have I to speak, for I too am a downcome. ❋ John Buchan (1907)
` ` Thou maun do without horse-sheet and surcingle now, lad, '' he said, addressing the animal; ` ` you and me hae had a downcome alike. we had better hae fa'en in the deepest pool o 'Tarras.' ' ❋ Unknown (1898)
"P.S. – The Carmichaels of Rosscraig are just ruined with feasting and wasting, and their place is to be sold and everything roupit – a sair downcome for their name." ❋ Margaret (1891)
If it had only been the arm of flesh we had to encounter, we were noways afraid -- though it was a sad downcome from the solemn awe of coming to grips with the prince of darkness and his emissaries. ❋ Unknown (1887)
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. ❋ George Douglas Brown (1885)
Again, that success would be a salve to Gourlay's wounded pride; the Gourlays would show Barbie they could flourish yet, in spite of their present downcome. ❋ George Douglas Brown (1885)
"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. ❋ George Douglas Brown (1885)
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. ❋ John Hunter (1883)
John felt the humiliation of this downcome in a far keener way than David did. ❋ Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1875)
It was a sair downcome fra them to the Glasgo 'pavements. ❋ Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1875)
Besides Jamie might not like it; and for many other reasons, the little downcome would press hardest upon Christina. ❋ Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1875)
Looking after sheep in the desert was a sad downcome from the possibility of sitting on the throne of Egypt. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)
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. ❋ Catherine Helen Spence (1867)
They were over the side in a moment, and there was a heavy splash into the muddy waters of the Humber, thick with the downcome of swollen rivers, thrown back by the flowing tide. ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)
A few heavy failures had occurred among speculators, and as these had always a row of minor speculators at their backs, like a row of child's bricks, which only needs the fall of one to insure the downcome of all behind it, there had been a general tumble of speculative bricks, tailing off with ❋ Unknown (1859)
Observatory; and thus scientific inquirers -- to say nothing of the crowds who will daily throng the footways of the Strand to witness the downcome -- will be informed of the true time, while, by means of the wires, it may be flashed to all parts of the kingdom. ❋ Various (1836)
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. ❋ William Carleton (1831)
"Thou maun do without horse-sheet and surcingle now, lad," he said, addressing the animal; "you and me hae had a downcome alike; we had better hae fa'en i, the deepest pool o 'Tarras." ❋ Walter Scott (1801)