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Example sentences for "then down"

  • Then down in peace and innocence he lay, Like the Sun's laborious light, Which still in water sets at night, Unsullied with his journey of the day.

  • The pilot cast another anxious glance over the big bag, then down at the earth.

  • It was up with a bound, then down again, until Grace Harlowe could not decide for a certainty whether she was standing on her head or on her feet.

  • The major cast an anxious glance up at the swaying bag, then down at that which was slowly assuming the appearance of Mother Earth.

  • Then down to the depths of the turbid flood,-- Fifty fathom of rebel mud!

  • Then down he figured to the shore, Most like a lordly dancer, And on his courtly honor swore He would no more advance, sir.

  • I went to bed to rumple it, then down to breakfast, all the time thinking of some lie as an excuse for being out all night.

  • When Harriet had gone oft, I went back into the garden parlour quite leisurely (for mother could see me do that), then down to the cook.

  • Sophy glanced up at him in amazement, then down again.

  • Loring looked at her, then down at the hearth-rug.

  • Then down they go, Costigan leading and holding up one hand to sustain Drummond in case of accident.

  • Then down on his knees he goes again, seizing and striving to pull away the nearest arm.

  • Then down he scrambled, giving one look at Moreno and his sleeping guardian as he passed, then gave a low-toned order to Walsh.

  • She looked up eagerly—then down again; not much fonder than he was of asking what she could not have.

  • Hazel looked up at him with wide-open eyes while he spoke, then down at herself, taking a sort of inventory of her own belongings.

  • The wistful eyes looked up at her, then down again.

  • A moment more and we are on the brow of the wave, then down we drive into the very trough of the sea, where, for a few seconds, the ship lies trembling, as if every timber in her sides was instinct with life.

  • One minute to get her breath; then down, flop on the back of the collie, jumps pussy.

  • Then down you go again," said the starling; and down the cricket went.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    each degree; perfectly beautiful; then answered; then apply; then bake; then called; then gave; then heated; then held; then known; then lift; then once; then ordered; then place; then pour; then poured; then proceeded; then rode; then spread; then taking; then very; then were; then with; then would; thence south; thence west