Yet did I no fa' doon the stair o' The Barleycorn?
The boy replied, "I was thinkin' to big it doon about the Clun-Brae-Head.
Maybe ye want me to turn my coat and come doon to your bit tabernacle?
Late yestreen she sat doon here to wash them, and I sat, too, and after that she cuddled me in her airms.
There's a barrel that had sugar intil't doon by the weighing machine.
And then they wad be that pleased to hae nae mair trouble, but juist to lie doon agang the lily beds and forget a' the cares o' the warl'!
Capitain; But for the outlawe hath but small meynee, And may not doon so gret an harm as he, Ne bring a countree to so gret mischeef, Men clepen him an outlawe or a theef.
Al be I not the firste that dide amis, What helpeth that to doon my blame awey?
They wol seyn, in-as-much as in me is, I have hem doon dishonour, weylawey!
The countess asks a former suitor, Doon or Devoun, emperor of Almaine (Germany), to send an army to murder Guy in the forest.
Doon may be identified with the emperor Otto the Great, who was the contemporary of the English king Edgar of the story.
But set ye doon an' eat yer supper, or it grows cauld,' she continued, at the same time selecting a piece of the bacon from the dish and putting it in her mouth with manifest relish.
Pu' doon their high places, an' burn their groves wi' fire.
What ha' ye doon wi' the oogly loot ye took chairge of, De Courcy?
Had Geerald doon this he would ha' maired his feenal treomph over the veellain," observed Cranstoun.
We rode the tod doon on the hill, The martin on the law; And we hunted the hoolit out o' breath, And forcit himdoon to fa'.
Tourists have made such havoc chipping off fragments from the old Brig o' Doon in Burns's country, that the parapet has had to be repaired.
After this we had time to look across the Doon Water, from which there was a crying.
So being mightily angry, but resolved like steel to show John Mure and his butchers that I despised them, I turned Dom Nicholas's head and set him straight at the deeps of Doon Water, where ford there was none.
But this fair sunshiny day we that rode saw nothing but the leaves rustling and clashing above us, and heard nothing but the sough and murmur of the Doon water beneath us.
It was a three-cornered piece of land, of which two sides were defended by the Doon Water sharply bending back upon itself, while across the broad base of the triangle there ran a moss.
This, very reluctantly, he did, and we could hear Master Bruce speaking from over the Doon Water clearly, as if he had been in his own pulpit.
It is doon aboot the Benane that the real ill folk bide.
And he threw a crushed sheet of writing into Doon Water as we rode beside it.
So swiftly was this done that before they could close or the Craufords come on, most part of the Cassillis folk had passed Doon water.
I heard that she went about telling everyone whom she thought would carry the tale to me, that I had gotten the Earl's sword for procuring the sow of Skeldon, and carrying her over Doon water on my back.
Aft hae I roved by bonnie Doon To see the woodbine twine, And ilka bird sang o' its love; And sae did I o' mine.
Wyllyam Waleys brother, was take and doon vnto deth, as Syr Johan erle of Alethes [Athol] was.
As the gretteste masteyrs of Scotlonde were thus doon to euyll dethe, and destroyed for theyr falsnesse, Johan.
What right ha' we to cram oor speeritual dogmas doon his gullet?
There rides Wat Gordon, the only true lover--the lad that is ready to lay doon his life for his dear, lightly as a man sets on the board an empty cup after that he has drunken.
Guid help the poor souls that are in that boat; they will either gang doon bodily to feed the fish, or else be casten up in gobbets the size o' my neive upon the shore!
How ye had gotten doon on your knees and telled us that ye loved us best o' a' the world.
I'll come doon the noo, as fast as I can don my gear and truss my points!
The deil's ain beast is doon there watching for them.
I was sayin' tae Bettie I kent a bonnie howdie hole on the Douglas Water doon the Sanquhar road a bit, that it wad puzzle the sodgers tae find.
Ye are to make no noise, my mannie, but gie me a lift doon wi' thae barrels cannily.
For it wad not be for his guid that he should gang doon to the port this nicht!
But he failed to "ding doon Tantallon"; that feat was reserved for the Covenanters.
The eyrie of the Douglas is now a mere shell; but the extent and immense thickness of the walls still proclaim its strength in the days when it was a proverb to "ding doon Tantallon and make a bridge to the Bass.
He's gitten on his lang grey coat Wi' buttons doon afoor.
A trimmer limb could nut be fun': Sea sip it, an' tip it, bud tip itdoon your wizan.
They let oot the melted ore, that is, and it rins doon intil moulds that hae been made in the sand.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "doon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
