downcome

Example Sentences

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Ay, ay, we're a' subject to a downcome.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander

Hey, Master-of-Arts Duncan MacAlpine, this is a bonny downcome for your grandfather’s son, and you come of decent blood up in Glen Strae—to be great with the Advocate, and scribbling his blethers!

From The Dew of Their Youth by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

John felt the humiliation of this downcome in a far keener way than David did.

From Scottish sketches by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

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.

From Count Bunker: being a bald yet veracious chronicle containing some further particulars of two gentlemen whose previous careers were touched upon in a tome entitled the Lunatic at Large by Clouston, J. Storer (Joseph Storer)

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