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Example sentences for "took down"

  • By and by she got quiet, rose and went to her bookcase, took down a volume of Coleridge, and read a short time, and so to bed, to sleep and wake from time to time with a sudden start out of uneasy dreams.

  • He took down an elegantly bound volume, on opening which appeared a flourishing and eminently flattering dedication to himself.

  • The following is an exact transcript of the lines he showed me, and which I took down on the spot: "Are you in the vein for cider?

  • He took down a Greek Lexicon finely bound in calf, and spread it open.

  • He took down a volume of Carlyle, bound in half calf.

  • And I watched him, dazedly, while he took down a silver porringer from the shallow mantel shelf.

  • By way of welcome he shot at me a volley of curses and bade me to fill up, and through fear of offending him I took down my first mug with a fair good grace.

  • This was the library; and going to the French section, he took down "The Three Musketeers" and seated himself in a window, with his back to anyone who might come in.

  • At last he took down a bat and began oiling it.

  • Then he took down an ancient-looking broad-bladed dagger, with a complex aspect about it, as if it had some kind of mechanism connected with it.

  • He took down a much more modern and familiar implement,--a small, beautifully finished revolver.

  • He took down one of the prohibited Spanish daggers or knives which a traveller may, occasionally get hold of and smuggle out of the country.

  • Let me be took down, for by George and the Draggin I'm a coming to it now!

  • At length he decided: 'Then I must be took down.

  • He took down one of the prohibited Spanish daggers or knives which a traveller may occasionally get hold of and smuggle out of the country.

  • I don't like it, then, and I tell you she's got to be took down!

  • Down to this point is what it has seemed well for me to write concerning the Incas, which is all derived from the account which I took down in Cuzco.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    border incidents; further resistance; her cheeks; later life; much troubled; shall fall; that sense; thou art; thus made; took another; took away; took boat; took bread; took care; took charge; took from; took his; took hold; took over; took passage; took pity; took their; took them; took train; took upon; universal knowledge