What is "come down to us"

Usage examples of "come down to us".

Of all their great works and art and beauty, only a few scattered remnants have come down to us over the years, preserved from the Danes.

Even the porters I have hired have come down to us from Upriver and not from Aib.

Whatever the reason, no worthwhile contemporary books on the remarkable Flavius Romulus have come down to us, only mere factual chronicles and some fawning panegyrics.

Many of the ancient customs of the earlier pagan holiday have come down to us, transfigured by Christian disapproval, and have given us a melange of witches and hobgoblins.

Sir William Wallace had the especial bad fortune of having come down to us principally by the writings of his bitter enemies, and even modern historians, who should have taken a fairer view of his life, repeated the cry of the old English writers that he was a bloodthirsty robber.

Then, she might have come down to us in history, hand in hand with Ann Hutchinson, as the foundress of a religious sect.

Religion, morality, economic self- interest, the mere pursuit of biological survival, all supply to our intelligence unanswerable arguments in favor of worldwide co-operation, but the old instincts that have come down to us from our tribal ancestors rise up in indignation, feeling that life would lose its savor if there were no one to hate, that anyone who could love such a scoundrel as So-and-so would be a worm, that struggle is the law of life, and that in a world where we all loved one another there would be nothing to live for.

The books that have come down to us make out lovers of your time more jealous than fond, and that is what makes me ask.