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got down

vb. (en-past of: get down)

Usage examples of "got down".

As Clara was putting her impatient question for the second time, Dete and Heidi arrived at the front door, and the former inquired of the coachman, who had just got down from his box, if it was too late to see Fraulein Rottenmeier.

He actually received money for permitting prisoners to escape to our lines, and got down to as low a figure as one hundred dollars for this sort of service.

She got down quietly into the creek, turned downstream again, presently saw in the distance the wood which had looked like a good place to hide.

Even with the cane, his bad leg gave him hell as he went downstairs, and kept on barking when he got down onto the sidewalk.

A breathy sigh of anticipation escaped him as he got down and set the jar on the counter.

However, Zeppa, having had his pleasure with the lady, got down from the chest, and being reminded by the lady of his promise of the jewel, opened the door of the chamber and brought his wife in.

The meeting quickly got down to detailed questions of timetables and logistics.

He went to the bookshelf and got down the cassette of Finnegans Wake.

So saying, he advanced to hold the stirrup for Don Quixote, who got down with great difficulty and exertion (for he had not broken his fast all day), and then charged the host to take great care of his horse, as he was the best bit of flesh that ever ate bread in this world.

He did not expect Dinah to be at home at this hour, but he got down from his horse and tied it at the little gate, that he might ask where she was gone to-day.

So Queequeg and I got down our traps, resolving, however, to sleep ashore till the last.

Despite the difficulty of drawing the coach at all along so hard a road, the top was covered with passengers who never got down, even at the steepest ascents.