adown
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of adown
First recorded before 1000; Middle English adoun, Old English of dūne “off the hill.” See a- 2, down 1
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Will he train rivulets adown the mountains into stone fountains by dusty roadsides?
From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by William Chauncey Bartlett
Where ’twas shrined in my heart I thy image discrown, And from out thy high heaven I hurl thee adown!
From Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes by Stefan Zweig
Hear ye the booming adown the red valley?
From Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental by Various
As the swift recurrent tide, It pours adown the sky, And rears at the cliffs of night Uppiled against the vast.
From The Star-Treader and other poems by Clark Ashton Smith
In silence still this maiden meek25 Her bitter taunts would bear, While oft adown her lovely cheek Would steal the falling tear.
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
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