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Examples
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Adown the breast six cubits broad, a flood of yellow gold,
Poems of the Heart and Home J. C. Yule
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Adown his silvery beard and mingled with the draft.
Zophiel A Poem Maria Gowen Brooks
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Adown the gale came the slanting rays of the setting sun, red and wonderful and warm.
Colorado Jim George Goodchild
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Adown it oft we used to go at twilight for the cows,
The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems George W. Doneghy
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Adown he threw the dead swine, and himself sate thereby; his fire he gan mend, and great trees laid thereon; the six swine he drew in pieces, and ever he to the woman smiled, and soon by a while he lay by the woman.
Roman de Brut. English Layamon
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Adown the tawny eddies that hissed and seethed and swirled,
Poems Teachers Ask For Selected by readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans" Various
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Adown this road in the days of chivalry traveled oft the noble chevaliers and knights.
In the Claws of the German Eagle Albert Rhys Williams 1922
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Adown the lanes of memory bloom all the flowers of yesteryear,
Just Folks 1920
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Adown the lanes of memory bloom all the joys of yesteryear,
Just Folks 1920
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Adown the steps descending/the high and stately queen
The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original George Henry Needler 1914
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