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Fall down   /fɔl daʊn/   Listen
Fall down

verb
1.
Lose an upright position suddenly.  Synonym: fall.  "Her hair fell across her forehead"






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"Fall down" Quotes from Famous Books



... guide rail is provided in the front part of the machine. In this rail are pegs which serve to keep the pieces of cloth separate, and so prevent entanglements. The pieces are stitched end to end so as to form an endless band. When running through the vat they fall down in folds at the back part of the beck, and are drawn out from the bottom and up in the front. Each part thus remains for some time in the dye-liquor, during which it necessarily takes ...
— The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics • Franklin Beech

... as to fall down a precipice!" said Rudy; "Do you know no better way, and yet wish ...
— The Ice-Maiden: and Other Tales. • Hans Christian Andersen

... has put me on to that because I let you score the point over him of discovering that it was missing. I am sure that he hopes I will fall down over the job of tracing it. I shouldn't be surprised if I did, too. It's no easy thing to get on the track of missing jewellery, especially if it has been hidden. I have not even got a description of the necklace to ...
— The Hand in the Dark • Arthur J. Rees

... their narrow couches, tearing out the straw with their hot and quivering fingers, or twisting the soiled sheets with a feeble and shaking grasp. Some were calling for water, and praying in piteous tone for mountains of ice, cold bright ice to fall down and ...
— The Old Homestead • Ann S. Stephens

... rejoined his friends at the harbour steps and when the launch put off towards the Dragonfly, he found himself side by side with Stella Croyle. In the darkness she relaxed her guard. Luttrell saw the great tears glisten on her dark eyelashes and fall down ...
— The Summons • A.E.W. Mason


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