114971 examples of down in sentences

He keeps one himself, and he told me it would be an excellent and instructive discipline for me to do it, tooset down the weather and what I did every day.

Was talked to by Father down in the library about improving myself and taking care not to be light-minded and frivolous.

For really, you know, when you come right down to it, there aren't many girls that have got the chance I've got.

And, really, when you come right down to it, I'd rather take them separate that way.

But I can write it down as a chapter, for it's going to be a novel, after it's got done being a diary.

Then your ma would look so grieved an' sorry an' go off an' cry, an' maybe not come down to dinner, at all.

But this afternoon I found her down on the floor in the library crying as if her heart would break with her head in Father's big chair before the fireplace.

I moved around and looked toward Jakie's grave, then returned to the side of the tree-trunk which had escaped the ravages of fire, and ran my finger up and down, feeling the holes which the red-headed woodpecker had bored and filled with acorns.

It did not take me long to meet him part way down the walk, nor did I shrink from the caress he gave me, nor know how much joy and pain that meeting evoked in him, even after he turned to Mr. Houghton saying fervently, "Do not be angry because I kiss your wife and put my arms around her, for she is my child come back to me.

Near-by the kettle stood a chair, and thereupon three legs of a bullock that had been shot down in the early part of winter, and snowed upon before it could be dressed.

The party for the cabins were unable to keep the trail of the mysterious personage, owing to the rapid melting of the snow; they therefore went directly to the cabins and upon entering discovered Keseberg lying down amid the human bones, and beside him a large pan full of fresh liver and lights.

One of the lower branches of another tree reached down close to the ground, and appeared to point to the spot.

Each man would carry one bundle a little way, lay it down, and come back and get the other bundle.

The angels look down with delight, This beautiful scene to survey.

[Illustration] POOR CRAZY ROBERT Poor Robert is crazy, his hair is turn'd gray, His beard has grown long, and hangs down to his breast; Misfortune has taken his reason away, His heart has no comfort, his head has no rest.

And rows of stately hollyhocks Down by the garden-wall, All yellow, white and crimson, So many-hued and tall!

From Washington down to John Quincy Adams, the presidents were from the aristocratic class.

If you look at any school geography published between 1820 and 1850 you will find that a large part of what is now Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Oklahoma, and Texas is put down as "THE GREAT AMERICAN DESERT.

" On went the captain and Bob, down one hill of ice and up another.

Captain Sumner has given up his roving life and has settled down with Viola as his housekeeper.

My aunt was the housekeeper there, and a sort o' one-horse carriage was down at Lexhoe waitin' to take me and my box up to Applewale.

And I'd a liked to ask him a lot about the ald lady, but I was too shy, and he and his friend began talkin' together about their own consarns, and dowly enough I got down, as I told ye, at Lexhoe.

"The squirehis name was Mr. Chevenix Crowl, he was Dame Crowl's grandsoncame down there, by way of seeing that the old lady was well treated, about twice or thrice in the year.

Here's your aunt coming down the passage.'

I should put him down as a gambler of a very discreet, courageous and resourceful type.

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