Do we say decrease or go down

decrease 459 occurrences

With the decrease in the power of the local governments came an increase in the burdens of taxation and conscription that were laid upon them.

But the total of folly and evil was very great; could the church do anything to decrease it?

Removal of the adrenals will cause a decrease in the amount of sugar in the blood, while removal of the pancreas will produce an increase.

Baldness is frequently associated with a progressive decrease of the concentration of thyroid in the blood.

With a notable decrease of tension Esther saw that the man before her was a stranger, a pleasant, professional stranger, with whom no embarrassment was possible.

My stomach has been greatly out of order, without any visible cause; and the palpitation does not decrease.

Speaking the real truth, The Milwaukee Journal said that no one needed to expect any appreciable decrease in the black population through any possible emigration, no matter how successful it might be.

The decrease in the black population in those communities where the Negroes outnumber the whites will remove the fear of Negro domination, one of the causes of the backwardness of the South and its peculiar civilization.

They also observe that while there may be an increase of race prejudice in the North the same will in that proportion decrease in the South, thus balancing the equation while giving the Negro his best chance in the economic world out of which he must emerge a real man with power to secure his rights as an American citizen.

On a fine day when visibility is good, it is easy to distinguish between the rise and fall of country ahead and, therefore, to be prepared for decrease or increase in speed.

Some of these are several miles in length, but decrease considerably in the dry season, when the water becomes salt.

I have shown, that it will be for the benefit of society, inasmuch as it is likely to decrease the number of those who transgress its lawsthat it will prove a greater security to our persons and property than laws or prisons afford.

An American who lives in Cologne told me that the decrease in the number of young men was noticeable, and that eleven sons of his friends had been killed.

This would seem to prove a considerable decrease in the weight of the atmosphere at the moment of explosion.

In any event, as the annual report from the Secretary of the Treasury will enter into details, shewing the probability of some decrease in the revenue during the next seven years and a very considerable deduction in 1842, it is not recommended that Congress should undertake to modify the present tariff so as to disturb the principles on which the compromise act was passed.

By a comparison of the two last lists of offences submitted for investigation, it will be found that a decrease has taken place in that for November.

Abundant proof of this proposition may be found in the statements already made respecting the decrease of licentiousness, the increased attention paid to marriage, the abandonment by the mothers of the horrible practice of selling their daughters to vile white men, the reverence for the Sabbath, the attendance upon divine worship, the exemplary subordination to law, the avoidance of riotous conduct, insolence, and intemperance.

He stated that there had been a gradual decrease of crime since he came to the district, which was early in 1835.

Many items in this estimate differ from the preceding; but the estimate of the annual decrease of the slaves on a plantation was the sameTWO AND A HALF PER CENT!

The following testimony of Rev. Dr. Channing, of Boston, who resided some time in Virginia, shows that the over-working of slaves, to such an extent as to abridge life, and cause a decrease of population, is not confined to the far south and south-west.

Hence the quantity of dry earth must continually increase, and the moisture of the globe decrease, and at last be quite evaporated, if it have not a continual supply.

This steady issue of paper money, with nothing to redeem it, led to its rapid decrease in value.

Then the decrease in distinctness of sound was so rapid that it was quickly lost.

Many of them were in a beastly state of intoxication, which, from the contents of some of their pockets, was not likely to decrease.

Dr. Fleming has prosecuted this inquiry with his usual zeal and ability, and in a memoir on the subject has enumerated the best authenticated examples of the decrease or extirpation of certain species during a period when our population has made the most rapid advances.

go down 2282 occurrences

" "Oh, no, gentlemen!" exclaims the little widow; "well let us go down, if you like, son, and pay our respects to this one.

So saying, he turned off among the thickets of the swamp, and seemed, as Tom said, to go down, down, down, into the earth, until nothing but his head and shoulders could be seen, and so on, until he totally disappeared.

But Steven was stubborn and would retort, "Jerry if we don't go down there we will have it on our conscience that there was a path which we could have checked out but didn't."

He saw strange trees and strange flowers, and heard strange sounds: and at last the sun began to go down, and he knew he would soon be left in the dark.

make oneself easy; make one's mind easy; set one's mind at ease, set one's mind at rest. calm down, cool down; gentle; thaw, grow cool. be borne, be endured; go down.

Bankes received a letter from the Duke of Cumberland, very long, and against his acceptance of office; but he begged Bankes to go down to see him and talk it over.

They are plunging heavily, and every moment their bows seem to go down too far to recover.

"Well, go down to Axel Ström's place and see," said Sivert.

By the way, I hear the freeze-oil doctrines don't go down at New Bedford.

Who of you, my servants, will go down to the earthwho will undertake the great work of softening the conqueror's heart?" The older angels and the archangels didn't want to go.

I will go down now into the golden sands, I Chamberlain: Your Majesty King: In a few years I will return to you.

But descend from your elevation, oh speculating child of mortality, and go down to school.

Presently I shall go down to help them bombard him in it, and try to persuade them that it will last longer if they do not squeeze the snowballs too hard, for Evan has prohibited "baking" altogether.

"W'en Sandy had be'n gone long ernuff fer folks ter think he done got clean away, Tenie useter go down ter de woods at night en turn 'im back, en den dey 'd slip up ter de cabin en set by de fire en talk.

En she tol' Jeff fer ter go down en see ole Aun' Peggy, de cunjuh 'oman down by de Wim'l'ton Road, en ax her ter gib 'im sump'n ter he'p git Hannibal out'n de big house, so de w'ite folks u'd sen' fer Jeff ag'in.

At last it said "I have seen a gander and a goose go down into a river and swim about in it.

[Illustration: Letter I.] I love to see the sun go down Behind the western hill; I love to see the night come on, When everything is still.

We thought of our hospital, of our supplies, of our perfect uselessness unless Soissons could yet reach usand I resolved to go down to the druggist at Charly and see what could be done.

But, master," he added "pay the girl what she asks, and I will go down and get back your note, and once for all we will shut our doors upon these people."

"If I ever go down again, I shall have to drop," she gasped.

And he turned and begun to go down stairs, and we follered him down two flights and started for a third one, and then Josiah faced him agin: "What in Tunket ails you, anyway?

Dan, if you was to see him you'd go down on your knees and ask him to forgive you!"

Would he ever be able to come in time to talk for a moment, before they must both go down?

I saw him go down-street, after dinner, in his phaeton, with another gentleman, and have not heard wheels since.

Before the message was delivered it had been her intention to go down.

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