Sentence example with the word 'adown'

adown

Last update: October 24, 2015


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No: he desired a canoe like those of Nantucket, all the more congenial to him, being a whaleman, that like a whale-boat these coffin-canoes were without a keel; though that involved but uncertain steering, and much lee-way adown the dim ages.   [Please select]

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Adown the white highway like cavalry fleet, It dashes the dust with its numberless feet.   [Please select]

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As Nathos and Deirdre played, of a sudden was a cry heard from adown the shore.   [Please select]

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A simple soul--simple as when his mother first taught him the old prophecy--he beheld the marvellous features beaming adown the valley, and still wondered that their human counterpart was so long in making his appearance.   [Please select]

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The lane was a place of enchantment--a long, moonlit colonnade adown which beguiling wood nymphs might have footed it featly.   [Please select]

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