One direction for an elevator

Usage examples of down.

I will not wear thy soul with words about my grief and sorrow: but it is to be told that I sat now in a perilous place, and yet I might not step down from it and abide in that land, for then it was a sure thing, that some of my foes would have laid hand on me and brought me to judgment for being but myself, and I should have ended miserably.

Either come down to us into the meadow yonder, that we may slay you with less labour, or else, which will be the better for you, give up to us the Upmeads thralls who be with you, and then turn your faces and go back to your houses, and abide there till we come and pull you out of them, which may be some while yet.

I have heard thy windy talk, and this is the answer: we will neither depart, nor come down to you, but will abide our death by your hands here on this hill-side.

Both Abigail and Moira laughed with delight as they sought to hold down the billowing cloth.

Guillaume Erard unfolded a double sheet of paper, and read Jeanne the form of abjuration, written down according to the opinion of the masters.

Notary take care to set it down that the said abjuration was made by one gravely suspected of heresy, so that if she should be proved to have relapsed, she should then be judged accordingly and delivered up to the secular Court.

Once inside the ablutions one of the interrogators pulled his underpants down around his ankles and ordered him to step out of them and bend over.

The arrest of the abnormal breaking down of the tissues, and the prevention of emaciation.

Should this prove to be the case I will leave someone aboard with instructions to haul down our colours.

So there they abode a space looking down on the square and its throng, and the bells, which had been ringing when they came up, now ceased a while.

And withal they saw men all armed coming from out the High House, who went down to the Bridge and abode there.

But no human being loved the aborigines more, nor stood ready to lay down her life for them if it were necessary.

It was Sandy Wan, the woman who would later help me track down the truth about the abortus vendors.

He followed immediately after, covering her with his naked body, then immediately adjusted himself, side to side and up and down so that his chest hairs abraded her nipples and his erection rested between her legs.

The wash-head was operating, spraying the windows and his abseil rope as it travelled down after him.