downcome
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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 S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
"God!" he said, "what a downcome for that hoose!"
From The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown
"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.
From The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown
At the downcome of darkness Up to the trenches Fared he forth, Sidni the Storeman.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 26, 1917 by Various
My ain grandfather, who was the son of a great farmer, hired himsell for a shepherd at that time to young Tam Linton; and mony ane was wae for the downcome.
From The Shepherd's Calendar Volume I (of II) by James Hogg
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