Ye needna be cast doun aboot it; it was a fair stand-up fecht, and ye did yer best.
And his lordship noted doun this circumstance also, wi' the name o' Sandy's captain.
And, without waitin for ony answer, she again banged doun the window.
Tear it dounthis moment, sirrah, if ye value either your maister's character or your ain employ.
This approached by occasional cries of "Doun wi' the rebel!
At last, into the room she comes, and sets hersel doun by the fire, with her hands owre ilk other.
Ye'll wash it dounin yonder well, Where water neer ran an dew never fell.
And we daur na gae doun to the broom nae mair 2 'And when ye hear me loud, loud cry, O bend your bow, let your arrow fly.
O late yestreen, as I cam hame, Doun by yon castil wa, O heavy, heavy was the stane That on my breast did fa!
As I gaed doun by yon hous-en, Twa corbies there were sittand their lane.
Her brither he cam trippin doun the stair, His steps they were fu slow; He sank into his sister's arms, And they died as white as snaw.
Ye'll bleach it doun by yonder green, Where grass never grew an wind never blew.
May Margret stood in her bouer door, Kaiming doun her yellow hair; She spied some nuts growin in the wud, And wishd that she was there.
O gin I war at yon bonnie hill, I wad lie doun and bleed my fill!
Rise up, rise up my Fusome Fug, And mak your foul face clean, For the brawest wooer that ere ye saw Is come develling doun the green.
The bride cam tripping doun the stair, Wi the scales o red gowd on her hair.
He lay dounjust as he war dead, And took his winding-sheet round his head.
Amang the blue flowrs and the yellow and a' 2 'Ye maun liedoun just as ye were dead, And tak your winding-sheet around your head.
Ile let thame stand tul they doun fa, Mither, mither, Ile let thame stand tul they doun fa, For here nevir mair maun I bee O.
Weel, the four o' us walked awa doun the Lawnmarket and High Street, and turned into a close by the tap o' the Canon gate, where the Episcopawlian chapel was situated.
When he was at the bathing he had been doun aboot Leith, and had seen the ships, and naething wad serve him but he would be a sailor.
Wi' sair pressing I was prevailed upon to sit doun again, and we had anither and anither, till I was perfectly insensible.
And I ioon [John] saigh the hooli citee ierusalim newe comynge doun fro heuene maad redi of god as a wyf ourned to hir husbonde.
If the Lady o' Douglas be within Ye'll bid her come doun and speak to me.
Doun then came Dame Prioress Doun she came in that ilk, With a pair of blood-irons in her hand, Were wrapped all in silk.
And he sat dounlike ane wi' a fever, an' his teeth chittered in his heid.
She hadna turned her throw the dance, Throw the dance but thrice, 120 Whan she fell dounat Willie's feet, And up did never rise!
O when he cam to broken brigs, 35 He bent his bow and swam; And when he cam to gude dry land, He set doun his foot and ran.
She turned her back unto the wa', Her face unto the room O; 50 And there she saw her auld father, Fast walking up and doun O.
I'll wad, sayd he againe, its to cast doun Restalrig Castle.
Thir beds randers it wery dangerous in the winters; yea in our coming doun we saw in 3 or 4 places wheir boats had bein broken or sunk thir last winter; some part or other of them appearing above as beacons.
I went and saw them shoot, but no man chanced to shoot it doun that year I was their.
Neir Algate goes of the Minorites leading to Tower-hil and the Tower, then doun to the Hermitage.
Gang doun the gate to Lucky Gregson's and get the things ye want, and bide there till ele'en hours in the morn; and if you see Robin, send him on to me.
The night before the funeral, Dougal could keep his awn counsel nae langer; he came doun with his proud spirit, and fairly asked auld Hutcheon to sit in his room with him for an hour.
The cronach's cried on Bennachie, And doun the Don and a', And hieland and lawland may mournfu' be For the sair field of Harlaw.
She had nae turned her throw the dance, Throw the dance but thrice, Whan she fell doun at Willie’s feet, And up did never rise.
Doun ran of hem that stooden hir bisyde, down, stood, beside Unnethe aboute hir mighte thay abyde.
No lenger thanne after Deth thay soughte, But ech of hem so glad was of that sighte, For that the florens so faire were and brighte, That doun thai sette hem by the precious hord.
This yongest, which that wente to the toun, who Full fast in hert he rollith up and doun close The beaute of these florins, newe and brighte.
And in that same stounde preserved you, moment Al sodeinly sche swapped doun to grounde.
And in the gardyn at the sonne upriste Sche walketh up and doun wher as hire liste.
And then they cam doun below, and made noise aneugh to wauken the dead or my auld deaf grannie, crying, "Tumble up!
And he disna gang saft and slippy doun their throats, as they'd ha'e him, but he is just main hard on 'em.
And he did it, for a' they tald him the Bishop wad be doun on him.
The angels like him, I've nae doubt; and the lost sheep like him: but he does nae gang doun sae weel wi' the ninety and nine.
Sae he sat himsell doun and hirselled doun into the glen, where it wad hae been ill following him wi' the beast, and I cam back to Charlie's Hope to tell the gudewife, for I was uncertain what to do.
And she is to send you doun a pound of her hie-dried, and some other tobaka, and we maun think of some propine for her, since her kindness hath been great.
Weel, and there's a bit ring he had hinging in a black ribbon doun on his breast.
Yonder he's been thrice dounamang them, and thrice cam free aff.
As e'er ye saw the rain doun fa', Or yet the arrow from the bow, Sae our Scots lads fell even down, And they lay slain on every knowe.
Ye maunna curb his head ower sair in neither; and, to be sure, since he has gane doun to the Howff, ye maun just e'en pay the lawing.
If he makes an outbreak, he'll be doun frae the Hielands or I could drink this glass,--and whare are they then?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "doun" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
