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Example sentences for "down again"

  • But what was most interesting about him was that at every turn he took he threw up his right fist, brandished it above his head and suddenly brought it down again as though crushing an antagonist to atoms.

  • He turned round sharply on the sofa, clutched his hat, then laid it down again, and settling himself down once more as before, fixed his angry black eyes on Stepan Trofimovitch with a sort of defiance.

  • Meanwhile, as I stood utterly dejected, I saw moving before me again the figure of the professor, whose turn it was to appear after Stepan Trofimovitch, and who kept lifting up his fist and bringing it down again with a swing.

  • The smudge added to the heat, and the heat drove men to the open air to gasp a few minutes in the rain for breath and go down again to make room for the next in turn.

  • My foot was raised for a forward step, but what I saw then made me set it down again.

  • Probably ate something that disagreed with them," said I, picking up my hammer and laying it down again.

  • Here I very absent-mindedly took up a fork, but, finding her eye upon me, laid it down again.

  • Black George picked up his coat, looked at it, and put it down again.

  • Jacob Cross to his friend Brumm, as Fisher went off and they sat down again.

  • And if ever I catch myself coveting the ease and dignity of the lordly hats, I shall just cast my thoughts back again to our early privations; to what my mother struggled through for us; and that will bring me down again.

  • Why, the beggars picked it up grain by grain and put it down again.

  • I mean to go down again at the end of the rope.

  • As he spoke he picked up the tin can standing upon the end of a flour-barrel that formed their table, had a good hearty drink, set it down again, and replaced his pipe between his lips.

  • This time with infinite difficulty they made fifty yards, and Alton's face showed what his silence had cost him when they set him down again.

  • You can sling all those things down again," he said.

  • But with it in her hand she stood silent a moment, then she put it down again.

  • I said I would go down again for a few minutes before dinner.

  • He remained there for a long time, and then Jack saw him climbing down again.

  • Dred shrugged his shoulders and sat down again.

  • So, when I came to myself again, I cried him mercy; but he said, I know not how to show mercy; and with that knocked me down again.

  • But, oh, how Satan did now lay about him for to bring me down again!

  • The boy had raised up his foot to kick, but placed it down again, for the terror proved to be a piece of rotten wood floating on the surface.

  • Shall we go down again, and take your Samson with us this time?

  • What's the use of picking up, sir, if you get knocking me down again, eh, sir?

  • I fastened it down again, as it was before.

  • We will go down again presently," he said.

  • Beatrice saw Ralph's eyes move swiftly and sideways and down again, and a tiny wrinkle of a smile show itself at the corners of his mouth.

  • And she took the little wax doll up in her arms and held it to her breast, and she whispered and she murmured, and she took it up and she laid it down again, and she held it high, and she held it low, and she laid it down again.

  • On one particular evening, an ugly December night, black with fog, and raw with frost, Clarke hurried over his dinner, and scarcely deigned to observe his customary ritual of taking up the paper and laying it down again.

  • I climbed up the sides, but they were so steep I had to stop or I should have rolled all the way down again, and I should have knocked against the stones at the bottom, and perhaps been killed.

  • Miss Entwhistle took it up, read its title in silence, and put it down again.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another aspect; answered young; bright sunshine; bright yellow; came straight; down again; down and; down from; down here; down house; down south; down the; down town; down upon; dull brown; earth below; fair copy; generally adequate; large supply; natural heat; poisonous snakes; pursued them; single fact; social forces; something different; that power