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
Example Sentences
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Was it so or not so, this looming, swinging, menacing bulk, palpably after her again, approaching adown the silent, dusky street?
From Emmy Lou's Road to Grace Being a Little Pilgrim's Progress by George Madden Martin
Cloudless are the skies, And, far adown the road which thou hast spann'd, I see the groves of that elected land Which is the place I call my paradise.
From Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems by Eric Mackay
And the tender, truthful Sisters shook their heads and turned away, For adown his classic features passed the shadow of his pain, As he closed his eyes and murmured: "She will never come again."
From Recitations for the Social Circle by James Clarence Harvey
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
When the clouds hide the sun away The tall slate roof is dull and grey, And when the rain adown it streams 'Tis polished lead with pale-blue gleams.
From Poems - First Series by J. C. (John Collings) Squire
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