49 collocations for adown

Soon shall its waters in my bosom still Life's fitful fever; and my spirit then Adown oblivion's stream shall glide to you, Ye spirits shrouded in eternal mist.

"Athwart the moor, adown the hill, Across the world away!

And he would sit a silent hour and gaze Upon the distant hills with dazzling snow Upon their peaks, and thence, adown their sides, Streaked vaporous, or starred in solid blue.

IN HOLLAND BROWN RONDEAU SANBORN GOVE TENNEY '86 In holland brown she stands to greet Me as I come adown the street, The sunlight falling on her hair Leaves warm caresses gently there A picture with true grace replete!

" "Then will I come," whispered Roger hoarse and eager, as the friar turned slow-footed to follow the others adown the slippery stair, "beseech thee, lord, thy man am I, twice sworn to thee till death, so suffer me beside thee.

A simple soulsimple as when his mother first taught him the old prophecyhe beheld the marvellous features beaming adown the valley, and still wondered that their human counterpart was so long in making his appearance.

They have reached the great stream, and seating themselves in a canoe, shoot adown the current, gazing on the beautiful shrubs and flowers that ornament the banks, and the majestic trees that cover the sides of the valley, all new to them, and presenting a wide field of discovery.

And now adown the well-known path, a secret path and sure, Led by the noble lady, hurried the gallant Moor.

ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge!

When Ossian from Knockfarrel went, a band Of merry maidens, trooping hand in hand, Came forth, with laughing eyes and flowing hair, To share the freedom of the morning air; Adown the steep they went, and through the wood Where Garry splintered logs in sullen mood Pining to join the chase!

Outfacing ruggedly the storms that swept Far overhead the sheltered furrow-vales; Which smiled abroad in green as the clouds broke Drifting adown the tide of the wind-waves, Till shattered on the mountain rocks.

the vessel's prow with shivering turns, Adown the roaring flood that gapes and churns Beneath like some huge boiling cauldron black, Thus whirl they in the slimy cavern's track.

to cram the hungry maw, To teach the empty stomach how to fill, To pour red port adown the parched craw; Without that dread dessertto pay the bill.

And all had lances tawny gray, and all on jennets rode, Plumes twixt their ears; adown their flanks the costly housings flowed. Himself upon his gallant steed carries the circling shield, And a new device is blazoned upon its ample field.

The cool wind creeps, the faint wood odours steal; Like ghosts adown the river's blackening floor

all these charms are fled, Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And rude pavilions sadden all thy green; One selfish pastime grasps the whole domain, And half a faction swallows up the plain; Adown thy glades,

He scarce had ended, when Gazing adown the rocky glen, On the left hand, just opposite, He saw a house with its fire lit; 'That house till now I've never seen, Though many a time and oft I've been In this wild glen.

Oh, that fair city, shining o'er the tide, Thither we journey through the storm and night; But soon shall we adown its still bay glide, Soon will the city's gate gleam on our sight, There with our own forever shall we be, In that fair city rising from the sea.

Upon the river's marge he sate, The tears adown his young cheek gushing; And long,his heart disconsolate

Not fiercer pours the avalanche Adown the steep incline, That rises o'er the parent springs Of rough and rapid Rhine Scarce swifter shoots the bolt from heaven Than came the Scottish band, Right up against the guarded trench,

But no word will she deign, Adown the shining lane, The long and lustrous lane of the moonlight she glides away.

"Adown the dismal mountains that night it blew tremendous, A-sobbing like a giant and a-snorting like a whale, When he saw beside the sheep-track ('Holy Saints,' says he, 'defend us!')

You mean Luke Tweezy?" The old man rubbed his shaving-brush adown Racey's neck-muscles.

It seems to me the sun always shone in those days, the time was ever three o'clock in the afternoon, and faery lay just adown the road!

But soon adown the dying sunset sailing, And like a wounded bird her pinions trailing, She fluttered back, with broken-hearted wailing.

49 collocations for  adown