[…] Therese saw a downward slant of sadness in her mouth now, a sadness not of wisdom but of defeat.

The tractive and braking forces are transmitted to the body through a downward projecting pivot pin in the normal way.

1793, Thomas Taylor (translator), The Phædo in The Cratylus, Phædo, Parmenides and Timæus of Plato, London: Benjamin and John White, p. 235,
[…] often revolving itself under the earth, [the river] flows into the more downward parts of Tartarus.

His position in society moved ever downward.

The natural disasters put downward pressure on the creditworthiness of the nation’s insurance groups.

If we turn to the New World, we find that among the American Indians, from the Eskimo of Alaska downward to Brazil and still farther south, homosexual customs have been very frequently observed.

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