Fallen

Examples

• Trusting to herself, she had fallen. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• In the darkness which had now fallen none could tell but that he had really finished me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Having fallen a good deal latterly into the late Sir John's way of always agreeing with my lady, I agreed with her heartily about Rosanna Spearman. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• They began to fear that possibly they had fallen upon the wrong crosses, and that the true cross was not with this number at all. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He worked, and worked, and worked, in silence, and words fell on him as they would have fallen on an echoless wall, or on the air. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I wish you could know Mr. Clayton; he is the dearest fellow imaginable, and unless I am mistaken he has fallen very much in love with me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Forced my brother to draw upon him, and has fallen by my brother's sword--like a gentleman. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• He stood on the hearth of Aufidius's hall, facing the image of greatness fallen, but greater than ever in that low estate. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• His wife, his honour, his fortune, everything he loved best had fallen away from him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He has fallen off from neither, said Waldemar Fitzurse; and since it may not better be, I will take on me the conduct of this perilous enterprise. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The whole cruelty of Sir Percival's deception had fallen on poor Lady Glyde. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• She thought with sickening despondency, that that friend--the only one, the one who had felt such a regard for her--was fallen away. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Two men had fallen down and lay on their backs in the middle of the square and were passing a bottle back and forth between them. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• If he had captured Chattanooga, East Tennessee would have fallen without a struggle. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Darkness had fallen on him in its place. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The grim blackness of the stones told by what fate the Hall had fallen--by conflagration: but how kindled? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Even dear Mr. Godfrey partakes of the fallen nature which we all inherit from Adam--it is a very small share of our human legacy, but, alas! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in Mount Gilboa. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Then he looked at Caroline--not, however, for the first time: his glance had fallen upon her before. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Pity the fallen gentleman: you to whom money and fair repute are the chiefest good; and so, surely, are they in Vanity Fair. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The achievements accumulated from generation to generation are deposited in it even though some of them have fallen temporarily out of use. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• You have fallen into the hands of the Jews, Eugene. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Motion in one body in all past instances, that have fallen under our observation, is followed upon impulse by motion in another. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The most important part of the expense of government, indeed, that of defence and protection, has constantly fallen upon the mother country. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• One would scarcely have expected, my dear, that your uncle's choice should have fallen on a partner of that description. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The morbid scales had fallen from her eyes, and she saw her position and her work more truly. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The fallen nature in Rachel--the mother Eve, so to speak--began to chafe at this. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It would not have ruined you for life, if it had fallen into some other person's hands. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It was given out that he had either thrown himself overboard or fallen overboard in the heavy weather that we were having. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Next morning's papers explained that it was but some loose drapery on which a spark had fallen, and which had blazed up and been quenched in a moment. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.

Typist: Louis