This, if we choose, may be put down as a crude form of income-tax, although it was not actually assessed on income.
On the high road you might travel from Jerusalem to Rome, and from Rome to Cologne or Cadiz, with no fear of any enemy except such banditti and footpads as the central or local government could not always manage to put down.
They could no longer procure a rich man's name to beput down on the list, but they could pretend that it had been put down.
Some Rufus, acting as advocate, had thought to put down Cicero by calling him an Allobrogian.
But it is, no doubt, the case that those two unfortunate lines which have been quoted became notorious in Rome when there was a party anxious to put down Cicero.
It met not to put down a great conqueror, but to suppress revolutionary ideas and movements, which were beginning to break out in various countries in Europe, especially in Italy and Spain.
From this he stood aloof, since if he helped the Turks to put down insurrection he would offend the Emperor Alexander, thus far his best ally, and commit Austria to a war from which he shrank.
Hence, the wars which Napoleon conducted while he was First Consul were virtually defensive, since all Europe aimed to put down France,--such a nest of assassins and communists and theorists!
What was desperate suffering and agitation for relief they called agrarian discontent and revolutionary excess, to beput down by the most vigorous measures the government could devise.
Ten men may in an hour quell a row which, after a day's delay, may take weeks to put down.
The column will move on every point in the Punjab where open mutiny requires to be put down by force, and officers commanding at all stations in the Punjab will co-operate with the column.
To overpower and crush; to subdue; to put down; to quell.
Jest at that minute the Post Office struck, and I put down my glass, and turned my head toward the sound, to catch the district.
This conviction was met and almost put down by the thought that Pet would know he had been watching for her; and he could not bear that.
Indeed, to such an extent has this outrageous attempt to put down a fellow artist been carried, that I know of but one Patching to be publicly seen in the city.
I took care, however, to learn everything which would be of service to me, and in the evenings I put down on paper all the mental notes I had made during the day.
I put down also a hundred louis, and he said that it would be better sport if I did not stake my money on one card only.
In an hour and a half's time you can write another letter; or rather you can copy what I am just going to put down.
He put down twenty-five Piedmontese pistoles, and some silver money to amuse the ladies--altogether it amounted nearly to forty louis.
It is not my intention to-day to endeavor to carry any point, to act as any man's advocate, to put up or put down anybody.
Well, Sir, these mischievous Radicals were to be put down, and the strong arm of South Carolina was stretched out to put them down.
Nullification will proceed, or will beput down by a power as unconstitutional as itself.
These women, however, kept up an unceasing battery with their tongues, which he at length began to put down by violence, pushing them away with one hand, and threatening them with the upraised knife in the other.
I, however, was not to be put down in this manner; and I began, in my homely strain, to address them.
This day has been to me of so much importance that I am obliged to muster all my calmness and self-possession to put down everything in its proper order.
It is some ten months since I put down anything in my journal; it had become such a familiar friend that I missed it.
If I put down on paper thoughts worthy of a Pascal; deeper than the ocean depth; loftier than the Alps,--it would not change the simple fact that she is married.
Aniela for all answer handed me her tablets and said resolutely, "Put down as many as you like.
He carried a letter, which he put downon the table.
It was also their business to take an estimate of what everyone was worth, and to put down in registers everybody's birth and quality; besides many other prerogatives.
But Hirtius and Pansa, consuls elect as successors of Antony, good men and lovers of Cicero, entreated him not to leave them, undertaking to put down Antony if he would stay in Rome.
That a horse had toes had never quite come into his knowledge, and Langdon's gurgle of mirth he put down to a suspicion that the Trainer was taking a rise out of him in what he had said.
Ah, Humph, well I can mind when I was married how I zid thy father's mark staring me in the face as I went to put down my name.
That's my age by baptism, because that's put downin the great book of the Judgment that they keep in church vestry; but mother told me I was born some time afore I was christened.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "put down" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
