downcome
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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 Catherine Helen Spence
"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."
From The Black Dwarf by Sir Walter Scott
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 Gordon Home
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 Alexander Maclaren
It was 'an awfu downcome; they stared at each other without perfectly understanding the nature of my announcement.
From The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character by John Roby
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