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Sentences starting with down

Down with the Yankees! [9]
Down by the wood-pile I comes across my Jack, and says: "What's it all about? [5]
Down at the wharf, when the small boats put off for the steamer, one can well entertain himself. [4]
Down from the west, through hills that crowded on either side to divert it from its course, ran the sparkling Deerfield, from among the springs and trout streams of the Hoosac, merrily going on to the great Connecticut. [4]
Down hill we went together, the fall showing that I must have wandered to high ground. [4]
Down below all was quiet. [10]
Down this space walked the Archbishop and his canons, and after them followed those five stately figures in splendid harness, each bearing his feudal banner--and riding! [5]
Down the winding walk from the hill, touched by a distant electric light, the loitering people, in couples and in groups, seemed no more in real life than the supernumeraries in a scene at the opera. [4]
Down such a vista and over such a foreground rises the Taj. [5]
Down into the very midst of her writing came the bolts of death. [14]

Sentences ending with down

I've read all your little efforts and greatly admired them, and when I heard you were here, I ..." I indicated a chair, and he sat down. [5]
It'll pass, and you'll be all right again"--and he laid the glass down. [5]
Miss Woodburn said you were freezing him to death when I came down. [8]
In 1817, perhaps you remember, the law of wager by battle was unrepealed, and the rascally murderous, and worse than murderous, clown, Abraham Thornton, put on his gauntlet in open court and defied the appellant to lift the other which he threw down. [6]
And you, sir--don't you know there has been somebody ill here, that you knock as if you'd beat the door down? [12]
I shall assist you as far as I can to put it down. [7]
But as I write, the vivid recollections are those that I set down. [9]
And because Chase would not do that, they voted his amendment down. [7]
The other denominations would abuse it, and "bear" it, and "sell it short," and break it down. [5]
And the last words I ever heard him say was to reproach--" But this memory was too much for the old lady, and she broke entirely down. [5]

Short sentences using down

Sit down, won't you? [9]
Git down on yo' knees! [5]
Fall down and worship me. [11]
Wilson sat down victorious. [5]
The world was upside down. [9]
This was down toward Tuttletown. [5]
Down with the topmast! [5]
I'd shut down tomorrow. [9]
He sat down to rest. [13]
Virginia set down the tray. [9]

Sentences containing down two or more times

But lie down, you must lie down a little. [11]
He said she would slap down a line, and if she couldn't find anything to rhyme with it would just scratch it out and slap down another one, and go ahead. [5]
I had hard work to keep my head above water, and I struggled desperately to escape from my toils; for if the boat were to go down I should be dragged down with her. [6]
He cussed away with all his might, and throwed his hat down in the mud and rode over it, and pretty soon away he went a-raging down the street again, with his gray hair a-flying. [5]
At last they were roused by the sound of a horn, and, looking down, they saw a four-in-hand drawing smartly down the road to the village over the gorse-spread common, till it stopped at the Cloistered House. [11]
She did not weep passionately, but the big salt drops welled slowly from her eyes and ran down her young cheeks, as drop after drop of shining sap flows down the trunk of a wounded birch-tree. [10]
In the dense wavering smoke some of the French threw down their arms and ran out of the bushes to meet the Cossacks, while others ran down the hill toward the pond. [2]
It poured: the water came down in sheets, in torrents, in deluges; it came down with the wildest tempest of many a year. [4]
But the plate was so long in coming my way that the fever-heat of beneficence was going down lower and lower--going down at the rate of a hundred dollars a minute. [5]
Well, as I was saying about the parlor, there was beautiful curtains on the windows: white, with pictures painted on them of castles with vines all down the walls, and cattle coming down to drink. [5]

More example sentences with the word down in them

A handsome, agile youth, to her sincere regret, had just fallen, but swiftly recovered his elasticity, and, springing to his feet, belaboured his opponent, a clumsy giant, so skilfully and vigorously that the bright blood streamed down his ugly face and big body. [10]
Well-for your throwing yourself away down there at Newcastle. [9]
Then, the night you're ready, fetch the leg a kick, down she goes; slip off your chain, and there you are. [5]
This goes down your throat, and portions of it lodge by the way, and produce a tickling aggravation that keeps you barking and coughing for an hour. [5]
But take down your sign, or never put it up. [3]
A shot from your pistol brought him down as he rushed forward to enter the ruins. [11]
We gave you your option, to scale down on a fair estimate of the earnings of the short line (the A. and B. [4]
It will carry your name down to posterity like the ring of Thothmes, like the coin of Alexander. [6]
It seems that your man, Prescott, doesn't come from Brampton, in the first place, and Grant says that while he likes soldiers, he hasn't any use for the kind that want to lie down and make the government support 'em. [9]
Clap spurs with your heels, sez I, and down the side of the turf together and give 'em the teeth of our guns! [11]
Now up gets your General Sherman in the middle of the night,--midnight,--and marches up and down between the counters, and waves his arms. [9]
You cannot keep your enthusiasms down, you cannot keep your emotions within bounds when that soaring bubble of marble breaks upon your view. [5]
I wish that your countrymen, who are coming down the river like driftwood, more resembled you. [9]
But you had your chance with me, and you threw it down like a piece of rotten leather. [11]
I don't want your carpenter; only send me down a hammer, a wedge, and a few strong nails. [10]
You Democrats, and your candidate, in the main are in favor of laying down in advance a platform--a set of party positions--as a unit, and then of forcing the people, by every sort of appliance, to ratify them, however unpalatable some of them may be. [7]
One civilian, a youngish man a little inclined to stoutness, stopped at the gate, stared, then thrust some papers in his pocket and hurried down the side street. [9]
How many other young men from the East have travelled across the mountains and floated down the rivers to enter those strange cities of the West, the growth of which was like Jonah's gourd. [9]
A very interesting young married woman, detained at home at the time by the state of her health, was bitten in the entry of her own house by a rattlesnake which had found its way down from The Mountain. [6]
But for a young lady in long skirts to make her way down that balsam, squirming about and through the stubs and dead limbs, testing each one before she trusted her weight to it, was another affair. [4]
There sat the young King, under a canopy of state, five steps away, with his head bent down and aside, speaking with a sort of human bird of paradise--a duke, maybe. [5]
And I wish you'd write it down so that the thing would be municipal. [11]
Money may desert you, friends forsake you, enemies grow indifferent to you, but the scarlet fever will be true to you, through thick and thin, till you be all saved or damned, down to the last one. [5]
Still, I ask you, do you think there is a reason why from her height she should stoop down to rescue you or give you any joy? [11]
Well, what think you--" He paused, rose, walked up and down the room, caught his moustache between his teeth once or twice, and seemed buried in thought. [11]
That's just like you young men," said the regimental commander cooling down a little. [2]
I will drive you with pleasure up and down behind the grove for a little while. [10]
In short, if you will set me down at Saville, I am willing to take my chances of reaching the Canadian Pacific from that point without fear of detection. [9]
Upon the plains you will see a cloud arising, not in the sky, but from the ground--a billowy surf of drifting snow; then another white billow from the sky will sweep down and meet it, and you are caught between. [11]
But I tell you what: if you want to see something fine, you must go down as soon as possible to Sunburst. [11]
He told us you were down in Boston at a fashionable school. [9]
I'd willingly spare you the climb, but he's watching for the carrier-pigeons that have been sent out, and won't even come down to his meals. [10]
If I tell you that I have a great respect for your astuteness and ability, do not put it down to flattery. [9]
And what do you suppose was this simple-hearted, lifelong wanderer's idea of settling down and ceasing to roam? [5]
By and by you sober down, and then you perceive that you have been drunk on the smell of somebody else's cork. [5]
Sit down, if you please--both of you. [5]
And I give you my honour, mon cher Courtenay, that I lost no time in getting back to Arlington Street, and called Dorothy down to tell her. [9]
Let me help you into the house, and lie down on the cushion for a time. [10]
Then defend yourself, you hideous toad, or I will tread you down, if my foot does not fear to be soiled with your poison. [10]
For some reason, you haven't been down at Leith much this summer. [9]
I am glad you have laid down some rules by which a man may reasonably expect to leap the eight barred gate. [6]
In this way you have at once a cheerful blaze, and the fire gradually eats into the solid mass, sinking down with increasing fervor; coals drop below, and delicate tongues of flame sport along the beautiful grain of the forestick. [4]
Oh, you Amerigans, you haf cot it down goldt, as you say! [8]
Forty year ago, you had only to let down the bucket till the first knot in the rope was free of the windlass, and you heard it splashing in the cold dull water. [12]
Come now, didn't you first make up your mind to go to Slow Down Ranch--to Orlando? [11]
Did Hilary send you down here? [9]
And what brings you down here, Sergeant Tom? [11]
But first, when you die, we will put you way down in de leetla warm house in de ground, on de side of de hill, in de Parish of Bon'venture, because it is de only place for a gipsy like Vanne Castine. [11]
I do wish you could come down once more before your holiday. [5]
Telephone me when you come down to Leith. [9]
The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous. [5]
And then--and then you can hear a wild laugh come out of the land, come up from the sea, come down from the sky--all waiting, waiting for something! [11]
I've told it you because you saved me years ago when I fell down the bank. [11]
I will see you all go down, and hand of mine shall not be lifted for you! [11]
Parties in New York only last week wanted me to go down into Arizona in a big diamond interest. [5]
The army passing yonder would have been enough to destroy down to the last man a force ten times greater than the number of his people. [10]
There were not yet any ropes or zigzag streaks darting down through the gathering darkness. [13]
And yet and yet against the tumult and beating of this passion striving to throb down thought, thought strove. [9]
Through all the years, down beneath everything, there had been the helpless knowledge in her own small, garish mind that she had little sense; now she realized that she was given a chance to atone for all her pettiness by doing one great sensible thing. [11]
For over four years he worked night and day, steadily advancing towards his goal, breaking down opposition, manoeuvring, conciliating, fighting. [11]
That was the year when Lisbon-town Saw the earth open and gulp her down, And Braddock's army was done so brown, Left without a scalp to its crown. [6]
I have been wrought and unsettled in mind by apprehensions, and that is a thing that is not helpable when one is in a strange land and sees his resources melt down to a two months' supply and can't see any sure daylight beyond. [5]
The portier also wrote down each day's journey and the nightly hotel on a piece of paper, and made our course so plain that we should never be able to get lost without high-priced outside help. [5]
It may be written down in the great speech. [7]
Every body has written about the Grotto del Cane and its poisonous vapors, from Pliny down to Smith, and every tourist has held a dog over its floor by the legs to test the capabilities of the place. [5]
But I will write down in order how it came about. [10]
I know the wretch who has trodden down the flower of flowers in your heart, and I, madman that I am, can sing his praises, can take his part; and cost what it may, I will still do so as long as you. [10]
With one frantic wrench he freed himself, and ran down Locust Street. [9]
That night another wounded man was driven down the Povarskaya, and Mavra Kuzminichna, who was standing at the gate, had him brought into the Rostovs' yard. [2]
The cattle trail wound for miles and miles down the slope. [13]
Perhaps his patient would try to beat him down, and Doctor Benjamin made up his mind to have the whole or nothing. [6]
Day after day would the sun rise over the forest and beat down upon the little enclosure in which we were penned. [9]
Sometimes the widow would take me one side and talk about Providence in a way to make a body's mouth water; but maybe next day Miss Watson would take hold and knock it all down again. [5]
The Kentucky Legislature would not budge till that proclamation was modified; and General Anderson telegraphed me that on the news of General Fremont having actually issued deeds of manumission, a whole company of our volunteers threw down their arms and disbanded. [7]
And perhaps she would let you take me down to New York for a matinee. [9]
He swayed and would have fallen, but Madelinette caught him, helped him to the sofa, and, forcing him gently down on his side, adjusted a pillow for him, and turned to the wounded man again. [11]
Our party, who would have been much surprised if any one had called them an excursion, went away on foot down the carriage road to the Glen House. [4]
Secondly, these missionaries would gradually, and without creating suspicion or exciting alarm, introduce a rudimentary cleanliness among the nobility, and from them it would work down to the people, if the priests could be kept quiet. [5]
You say you would come down from your high place, you would give up your worldly honours, for me. [11]
One more night would carry us over the hostile frontier if we had good luck, and we saw the night close down with a good deal of solicitude. [5]
The 'last bells' would begin to clang, all down the line, and then the powwow seemed to double; in a moment or two the final warning came,--a simultaneous din of Chinese gongs, with the cry, 'All dat ain't goin', please to git asho'! [5]
How delightful it would be to walk up and down the garden, with her aunt the abbess, with Els, and perhaps--she felt the blood crimson her cheeks--with Heinz Schorlin! [10]
I knew she would be solicitous about what he might do down here, so I did it to quiet her and to comfort her. [5]
And suddenly there would be a shout, and Mammy's turban go flying from her woolly head, or Mammy herself would be dragged down from behind and sat upon. [9]
It is well worth while to set down this noble fact, and well worth while to put it in italics, too. [5]
The stone is worth a landed estate, and though I am not a rich man, I would pay down two talents for it at any moment, even if I had to borrow the money. [10]
Mr. Clay, though worn down and exhausted, was appealed to by members to renew his efforts at compromise. [7]
And now this world with all its vain show had plumped down in the midst of them. [4]
Into a New World wandered I, A world austere, sublime; And unseen feet came sauntering by; A voice with ardent chime Rang down the idle lanes of sleep; I waked: the night was still; I saw my star its sentry keep Along a southern hill. [11]
How in the world does it happen that you, who so often have helped us with your father's coin, have come down to be the chief of a band of travelling musicians? [10]
There are elaborate works for reducing the blue rock and passing it through one process after another until every diamond it contains has been hunted down and secured. [5]
Conversely, take the workman settled down to work in the mill, at the best wages attainable at the time. [4]
The men-folks, having worked in the regular hours, lie down and rest, stretch themselves idly in the shade at noon, or lounge about after supper. [4]
Laying down her work, she passed into the front hall. [11]
These were the words I was maundering with this noble voice of mine: "'The news I bring, fair Lady, Will make your tears run down Put off your rose-red dress so fine And doff your satin gown! [11]
Without saying a word, he threw a gold chain to his brother, ordered his nobles to follow him, and left the garden, but only to wander restlessly up and down his apartments, and try to drown his rage in wine. [10]
Together, without a word, he and De la Foret carried him to the couch and laid him down. [11]
She drew her wool down through the canvas and, scarcely able to refrain from laughing, stooped as if trying to make out the pattern. [2]
Of course there won't be much to do, except to stand by, but you will get a better idea of what goes on down there. [9]
It is little wonder that under circumstances like these he fell down and brake his neck. [5]

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