downcome

Example Sentences

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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

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)

Ay, ay—no doubt—no doubt," said the Bailie, briskly, "but we are all subject to a downcome, and it comes hard on those that have held their heads high.

From Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North by Scott, Walter, Sir

But little cause have I to speak, for I too am a downcome.

From The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies by Buchan, John