downcome

Example Sentences

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But is not the bringing in of the 'reward' as a motive a woful downcome? and is love that loves for the sake of reward, love at all?

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Maclaren, Alexander

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.

From Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

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

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.

From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas

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)