doun

How to use doun in a sentence

• The laird—Netherglen himsel'—oor maister—and have you heard naething aboot him as you cam doun by the muir?

  Under False Pretences | Adeline Sergeant

• A light has come doun upon me frae heaven, she said, an I canna.

  The History of Burke and Hare | George Mac Gregor

• And he shal ben as a tree, that is plauntid beside the doun rennyngis of watris; that his frut shal ȝive in his time.

  Notes and Queries, Number 189, June 11, 1853 | Various

• Ye're thrifty and thro' thriving, when your head gangs doun your bottom's rising.

  The Proverbs of Scotland | Alexander Hislop

• Though ye knocked me doun in the Warlocks' Glen, I hae nae ill-will to ye.

  Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX | Alexander Leighton