Downs
[daʊnz]
Examples
- I wish you had been there, my dear, to have given him one of your set-downs. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- We arrived in the Downs on the 13th of April, 1702. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- I don't know how many sail the waiter told us were then lying in the downs. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- William Guppy, replies the other, I am in the downs. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But the windows are narrow, and it is all ups and downs. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It was in vain to ask why ups, why downs; there they was, you know. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The large Indiaman was our great attraction because she had come into the downs in the night. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The perilous ups and downs of life in sixteenth century France were to show that courage in another light. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- High hills rose immediately behind, and at no great distance on each side; some of which were open downs, the others cultivated and woody. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Mr Plornish amiably growled, in his philosophical but not lucid manner, that there was ups you see, and there was downs. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Go on, Jemmy,' said the Spanish traveller, 'like black-eyed Susan--all in the Downs--no croaking--speak out--look lively. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- On the 16th of April we put in at the Downs. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- They both seemed delighted with their drive; but said only in general terms that they had kept in the lanes, while the others went on the downs. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Imagine to yourself, my dear Elinor, the delight of a gallop on some of these downs. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
Edited by Alexander