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Vajapeya sacrifices, or if he undergoes the severest austerities with head downmost.

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

And he showed how this man dragged down with him all society; how the chain that bound the slave was fastened also to the master -- so that from the poverty and oppression and degradation of this "downmost man" came all the ulcers that festered in the social body.

Love's Pilgrimage Upton Sinclair 1923

"May their souls dwell in the downmost hall of perdition!" said Hamish, with his cheeks becoming a gray-white; "and every woman that ever came of the accursed race!"

Macleod of Dare William Black 1869

"May their souls dwell in the downmost hall of perdition!" said Hamish, with his cheeks becoming a gray white; "and every woman that ever came of the accursed race!"

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864

It is beautiful to see it at work, gathering its treasures (such as they are) into little round balls; and pushing them home with the strong wrong end of it, -- head downmost all the way, -- like a modern political economist with his ball of capital, declaring that a nation can stand on its vices better than on its virtues.

The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859

It is beautiful to see it at work, gathering its treasures (such as they are) into little round balls; and pushing them home with the strong wrong end of it, -- head downmost all the way, -- like a modern political economist with his ball of capital, declaring that a nation can stand on its vices better than on its virtues.

The Ethics of the Dust John Ruskin 1859

“And so mine well may,” said Desborough, “ay, and overturned too, since my bed last night was turned upside down, and I was placed for ten minutes heels uppermost, and head downmost, like a bullock going to be shod.”

Woodstock 1855

The last Divinity of poor mankind dethroning himself; sinking _his_ taper too, flame downmost, like the Genius of Sleep or of Death; admonitory that Tailor time shall be no more!

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838

The last Divinity of poor mankind dethroning himself; sinking _his_ taper too, flame downmost, like the Genius of Sleep or of Death; admonitory that Tailor-time shall be no more!

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

You needn't laugh; for I've just crammed Kenneth, head-downmost, in the Black-horse marsh; and two is the same as one -- and

Wuthering Heights Emily Bront�� 1833