Falls

Examples

• Peggotty comes up to make herself useful, and falls to work immediately. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Nine-tenths of them wear nothing on their heads but a filmy sort of veil, which falls down their backs like a white mist. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• All I mean to say is, I shall give myself no particular trouble to catch them; but if one falls in my way---- You'll snap him up, of course. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She falls from the lowermost stair, and is swallowed up in the gulf. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• But when it is perceived that each idea signifies the quality of mind expressed in action, the supposed opposition between them falls away. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Finally practice falls of necessity within experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• To Ph?nicians after the falls of Tyre and Carthage, conversion to Judaism must have been particularly easy and attractive. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Then she screams wery loud, and falls into 'sterics; and he smokes wery comfortably till she comes to agin. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• After the water has done its work on the wheels it falls into a tunnel and is carried back to the river below the falls. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Whatever falls out, say nothing; and do what he bids you. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• I have counted the hours of her life, said he; one month, and she falls. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The price of the goods rises, and the final payment of the tax falls upon the consumer. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I don't deny that she do throw us back-falls, and that she do drop down upon us heavy. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I suspect, said Elinor, that to avoid one kind of affectation, Edward here falls into another. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• When the finger is removed, the mercury falls somewhat, leaving an empty space in the top of the tube. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.

Typed by Anatole