How To Use Set down In A Sentence

Dormant until today, the Olympic tennis stadium suddenly erupted when the Greek heroine came from a set down to gain momentum in the second session.
Listening in on the tap, a man laughed, putting his head set down.
For matter of Religion it would require a particular volume, if I should set downe how irreligiously they couer their greedy and ambicious pretenses, with that veile of pietie. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
The verb 'to lay' means to set down. Times, Sunday Times
Biscay, or off the storm-lashed rocks of Finisterre, we set down the author in question as a gross impostor, and had a mind to quarrel with him for leading us into this cruel error. Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo

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These things being premised, I shall now set down and make public that proposal which heretofore I have tendered, as a means to give some light into a way for the profitable and comfortable practice of church government; drawing out of general notions what is practically applicable, so circumstantiated as of necessity it must be. The Sermons of John Owen
Meseems it is in its way a style of tachygraphy or short-hand such as I use to set down these pages. A different flesh
Finally the fugu is set down in front of us to hushed anticipation.
Canada which is described in that Mappe is not marked as it is in my booke, which is agreeable to the booke of Iaques Cartier: and that the sayd Chart doth not marke or set downe The great Lake, which is aboue the The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II.
They have their MTM, their minor tooth movement system that is a series of players and set down materials for the ortho's lab, back office lab to make very small adjustments to retainer type single aligner products. Healthcare Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha
You always see him with his children and his wife; he drives her and her baby up and down along the only carriageable road of Lucca: so set down that piece of domestic life on the bright side in the broad charge against married authors; now do. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The cardinals must take an oath when they first enter the conclave that they will abide by all rules set down by the Pope and that they will maintain absolute secrecy about the voting and deliberations.
Garun's palanquin was set down beside the black stone throne. WATER BOOK ONE: ASCENSION
Bvt before there had bene yet any precise obseruation made of figuratiue speeches, the first learned artificers of language considered that the bewtie and good grace of vtterance rested in no many pointes: and whatsoeuer transgressed those lymits, they counted it for vitious; and thereupon did set downe a manner of regiment in all speech generally to be obserued, consisting in sixe pointes. The Arte of English Poesie
A lot of environmental protection laws including some trade restriction measures have been set down esp. by the developed countries.
But what can be stated is that tohunga or kaumatua should be consulted by whanau where makutu is suspected so that the whanau receive the correct expert advice as to how to deal with a situation, as such advice will be tempered by ensuring what is to be carried out by such exorcism remains within the laws of New Zealand as set down by Parliament," he said. Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
They were set down with neat penmanship on small pieces of white paper decorated with hearts, flowers and blue ribbons.
She may be of far less importance in the great world of society than some Mrs. Smith, who, having nothing else, is set down as of the highest rank in that unpublished but well-known book of heraldry which is so thoroughly understood in America as a tradition. Manners and Social Usages
He set down the large, wide-mouthed glass cradled between his hands. Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire
There was a pause while the barmaid set down two plates in front of us.
He set down the caba containing his instruments, and medicaments, adjusted his glasses, and stooping over, intently studied the wound made by the cobra. The Jungle Fugitives A Tale of Life and Adventure in India Including also Many Stories of American Adventure, Enterprise and Daring
The coach had set down six inside and ten out passengers (all voters) about ten minutes before Murphy marched up to the inn door, leading the black mare, and calling "ostler" most lustily. Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life
They had caught a glimpse of the landing stage and set down there, perhaps beaconed in by the torch left in the hut, which meant they no longer hunted by scope-or they would have known that for a decoy. Dark Piper
I smiled at her and she stopped cryin 'and tried to pretend she hadn't been, and then I got up and went and set down by her and took her hand an' kind of patted it, and let her dry her eyes. Drusilla with a Million
Yet when the deep-spacers who man this Pegasus of the void set down on Altair-4 and are confronted with a tinker-toyman called (close your ears) Roddy (sic) the Robot, they are flabbergasted. Will You Go See Avatar?
Garun's palanquin was set down beside the black stone throne. WATER BOOK ONE: ASCENSION
The others nodded in mute agreement, assenting to the terms set down by the car's owner.
Tristan shut the door, set down his tankard, then joined in the round of introductions. THE PERFECT LOVER
So here we/they are worshiping at - again in all inner rectitude - stones set down by one of their cruelest arch-nemeses for his own self-glorification and vanity and also as a sop (which many since have swallowed) to keep the people otherwise occupied, rather than in revolt. Robert Eisenman: The Greatest "Heritage Site" of All
At last I could knit a few rows, enjoy the process and then set down the needles.
Here then, plain upon this apparent arbitrarily levised trifle, this petty provincial money-token, this poor bawbee, that is, this coin not only of the very humblest order, but proverbially sordid at that, we find clearly set down, long generations ago, the whole [Page: 99] four-fold analysis and synthesis of civic life we have been above labouring for. Civics: as Applied Sociology
But, set down in the Globe, the production is simply visiting exotica.
While making a hasty exit, Mike and Debbie come face to face with some of the scariest clowns ever to set down this side of the midway!
The "Monthly Review" sneers at me, and asks "if 'Comus' is not _good enough_ for Mr. Lamb?" because I have said no good serious dramas have been written since the death of Charles the First, except "Samson Agonistes"; so because they do not know, or won't remember, that "Comus" was written long before, I am to be set down as an undervaluer of Milton! The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb
Ye auld donnert deevil!" she cried, with an addition too coarse to be set down, and threw herself upon him. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875
And when I am despairing, I shall recall these wonderful words of HPL, quoted in the Guardian today: I am well-nigh resolv'd to write no more tales, but merely to dream when I have a mind to, not stopping to do any thing so vulgar as to set down the dream for a boarish Publick. Hot 'n Humid
Finding one, he set down the apple on the counter near the small window and began to slice it into pieces; first into halves, then into quarters, and then into eighths.
The waitress set down a small gas range on the table, stuck an oiled tray on top, and poured on a mixture of greens and spicy chicken.
Out of the court, and a long way out of it, there is considerable excitement too, for men of science and philosophy come to look, and carriages set down doctors at the corner who arrive with the same intent, and there is more learned talk about inflammable gases and phosphuretted hydrogen than the court has ever imagined. Bleak House
Having received assurances that the appeal would not be set down in January, there was no reason for them to consult the notice board to check. Times, Sunday Times
The dozens of sports that set down this weekend left a wake of destruction and ruin.
Mrs. Ludgate was decided by the word patronize: she took the hat, and desired that it should be set down in her bill: but Mrs. la Mode was extremely concerned that she had made a rule, nay a vow, not to take any thing but ready money for the spring hats; and she could not break her vow, even for her favourite Mrs. Ludgate. Tales and Novels — Volume 02
As the Devil is ordinarily by no means wanting in shrewdness, the omission might perhaps be set down to his credit on the score of charity, but for his abominable taste in matters of diabolical vertûe, as shown by his penchant for sanguinary signatures to all compacts and bonds for bad behavior made with or exacted by him, in the course of his "regular dealings" with mankind, and hence it must be considered a clear case of ignorance or oversight, that this test, compared to which there is toleration for boils even, was not applied. Life in the Rocky Mountains
English public was set down as composed of sham heroes, and a valet or 'flunkey' world. On the Choice of Books
In order for his margraves, especially, to rule the conquered peoples, Charlemagne had their customs set down in writing.
He set down one foot after the other with the heaviness of a somnambulist.
He nodded, set down the fingernail clipper, then stood and shook my hand. GENIE ON THE LOOSE
French calf; heel one inch high, with steel nails; countered outside; straps narrow, of fine French calf put on "astraddle," and set down to the top of the back. Woodcraft
Was it perhaps something casually received recently by Skousen, never intended to be set down as if it were documentable? Milton Friedman: The Man Who Laughs, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
A bubbling sound from within made me look up, and I watched a refilled narghile being set down amid a circle of men. Peter Clothier: The Novice: A Book Review
Therefore here is the deficience which I find, that physicians have not, partly out of their own practice, partly out of the constant probations reported in books, and partly out of the traditions of empirics, set down and delivered over certain experimental medicines for the cure of particular diseases, besides their own conjectural and magistral descriptions. The Advancement of Learning
In sum, the rights and consequences of both paternal and despotical dominion are the very same with those of a sovereign by institution; and for the same reasons: which reasons are set down in the precedent chapter. Leviathan
They drew a line in the sand —or rather, in this case, in the rugged terrain in the middle of the Korean peninsula —where the 38th parallel had been set down at Potsdam.
There were whispered rumors that went even farther than these -- rumors which I dare not even set down here, for the busy tongues that dealt so mercilessly with the name and fame of Eliza Floyd were not unbarbed by malice. Aurora Floyd. A Novel
Writing: Set down notes on futurological audit story. Tech and Science
I noticed as he set down the box he'd been carrying that he was wearing a faded black shirt with holes ripped in the short sleeves and bottom hem.
In the quiet twilight, the cobbler slowly set down his tools, laying the wooden shoe at the foot of his stool and rising slowly.
Nor must there be omitted another strange attestation of the antiquity of the whale, in his own osseous postdiluvian reality, as set down by the venerable John Leo, the old Barbary traveller. Moby Dick; or the Whale
The language of the Weddas is regarded as a base descendant of the most complete and first known form of Aryan speech, the Sanskrit; and the Weddas are set down as descendants of the Sanskritic Aryans, who conquered India. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, March, 1880
It might be set down as an axiomatic statement that no large publishing house in this country could possibly live exclusively from what are known as miscellaneous books, by which is meant current fiction and other ephemeral publications. The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing
In her own mind she set down Nathanael Harper as "a very odd sort of youth" -- (_a youth_ she still persisted in calling him) -- and turned again to his brother. Agatha's Husband A Novel
When I turn a corner in snowball days, the boys with bulging pockets see a head held high and a step unquickened, but I know that I cringe inwardly; and this private mortification I set down against old The Promised Land
I won't circumlocute about how I got in and got set down on a chair alongside of the kitchen stove. Kilo : being the love story of Eliph' Hewlitt, book agent
Hae, man, there's a cawker to keep your heart warm; and set down that bottle of Deacon Jaffrey's best brown stout to get a toast. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction
It was possibly a sense of loneliness - or rather apartness - that compelled him to set down these reflections on his life.
They took about three hours to set down some new gripper strips, and lay down the new underlay and carpet.
But the corporation law has not set down the corporate charter invalidity system, so that if corporate charter is invalid in practice and so on, we can not solve it.
Passengers will be set down on request at all recognised stops along the route.
The Convention set down rules for deciding which country should deal with an asylum request.
He walked over to the demilune table and set down the Filofax, pulling a snow-white handkerchief out of the pocket of his shorts. The Merlot Murders
Please enjoy your stay,’ the bellhop said as he set down her bags.
For the garrulous voice of the crier is the voice of a hired servant, the words read by the proconsul from a written document constitute a judgement, which, once read, may not have one letter added to it or taken away, but so soon as it is delivered, is set down in the provincial records. The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura
I grabbed the pot she'd set down and scooped the grains onto my plate.
Then he drew a second pear, exactly like the former, except that one or two lines were scrawled in the midst of it, which bore somehow a ludicrous resemblance to the eyes, nose, and mouth of a celebrated personage; and, lastly, he drew the exact portrait of Louis Philippe; the well-known toupet, the ample whiskers and jowl were there, neither extenuated nor set down in malice. The Paris Sketch Book
An excellent discourse whereof, as likewise of the honourable expedition vnder two of the most noble and valiant peeres of this Realme, I meane the renoumed Erle of Essex, and the right honorable the lord Charles Howard, lord high Admirall of England, made 1596. vnto the strong citie of Cadiz, I haue set downe as a double epiphonema to conclude this my first volume withall. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01
For nearly as long, pilgrims with a bent for writing have felt compelled to set down what they experienced.
When he set down a brimming but unordered glass before me with coffee one night, I remonstrated… mildly.
It is necessary to set down these additional rules.
I set down my glass deliberately and traced the rim slowly with my finger.
The helmet was unstrapped and set down on the body of the bike, revealing a young woman's face.
Meanwhile, Venus Williams, the sixth seed, declared herself ready to break her title drought after clawing her way back from a set down against Schiavone. Top stories from Times Online
They had bent to accept the rules and diktats set down by the powers-that-be.
The notes of the tour, set down on his return to Chelsea and republished in 1882, have only the literary merit of the vigorous descriptive touches inseparable from the author's lightest writing; otherwise they are mere rough-and-tumble jottings, with no consecutive meaning, of a rapid hawk's-eye view of the four provinces. Thomas Carlyle
I have set down, and that, too, with all the circumstantiality of an eye - witness. 2 2 The Purcell Papers
I will not resist, therefore, whatever it is either of divine or human obligement that you lay upon me; but will forthwith set down in writing, as you request me, that voluntary Idea which hath long in silence presented itself to me of a better Education, in extent and comprehension far more large, and yet of time far shorter and of attainment far more certain, than hath been yet in practice. The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649
De hawn done blow, an all de han bin a set down rasslin wid cole bittle and trowin an ketchin foolishness one tur anurrer. The Anderson Surpriser. Written after He Was Seventy-Five Years of Age. The Author Was Born in Liberty County, Ga., on the 22d Day of February, in the Year of Our Lord, 1819, and United with the Methodist Episcopal Church in the Year 1839. This Book Conta
If you set down a face card, an ace, or a joker, then next person has a certain number of chances to set down one of those cards.
In some of the greatest homiletic prose ever set down in writing, St. Bernard of Clairvaux interpreted the Song of Songs as the Bible's way of expressing the nuptials of the soul and God.
The train stopped at the station to set down lots of waste.
But what can be stated is that tohunga or kaumatua should be consulted by whanau where makutu is suspected so that the whanau receive the correct expert advice as to how to deal with a situation, as such advice will be tempered by ensuring what is to be carried out by such exorcism remains within the laws of New Zealand as set down by Parliament," he said. Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
I guess he just set down to think of a good brand new excuse for not working, and kind of drowsed off. Cape Cod Stories
Shakespeare was the first to set down the ancestor word hollo, when he used it in his play Titus Andronicus: “Hollo, what storm is this?” The English Is Coming!
This yoong man, Muster Wharton, as is goin 'round so free, promisin' yer the sun out o 'the sky, iv yer'll only vote for' im, so th 'men say -- _ee_ don't coom an' set down along o 'you an' me, an 'cocker of us up as ee do Joe Simmons or Jim Hurd here. Marcella
Whether or not to solve this problem, it's a key to utilize the resource of the corporation effectively, set down the production program reasonable and improve the satisfaction of customers.
It wasn't really codification, because Congress did not set down a legislative rule to supplant the judicial one.
Babies are christened according to the principles set down by the Lutheran Church of Iceland.
remodelled" by Mr Sheldon; and _sixteen_, having no other distinguishing mark upon them, must be set down as "ancient" compositions. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
At one point, all 10 multi-instrumentalists set down their axes in the middle of a piece and sang in gentle, unearthly harmony.
It was important that the public were kept informed about the sludge plant proposal and it was vital that the sludges to be treated would be clearly set down.
The Convention set down rules for deciding which country should deal with an asylum request.
We set down in a heavy fog.
Christopher set down his cards, exposing a three, five, and ten of spades and the ace of diamonds.
In September, for example, an experiment there reported ghostlike particles known as neutrinos apparently traveling a tiny bit faster than light, an apparent breach of the cosmic speed limit set down by Albert Einstein. Physicists Close In on a Universal Puzzle
It may occur to some hypercritical person to suggest that the English language has frequently been murdered in my den, and that it is its horrid corse which is playing havoc at my home, crying out to heaven and flaunting its bloody wounds in the face of my conscience, but I can pass such an aspersion as that by with contemptuous silence, for even if it were true it could not be set down as wilful assassination on my part, since no sane person who needs a language as much as I do would ever in cold blood kill any one of the many that lie about us. Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others
We set down in a heavy fog.
They set down a policy to introduce initiatives, including the presumption that the council will consider prosecution in every case of fraud it uncovers.
this is exactly what the composer had set down on paper
Sighing, Valerian set down her needlework and followed the seven year old to the window of the solar.
He set down his mug and looked steadily across the table at me.
The wise men, vulnerable in ageing plaster, are borne as gifts to be set down among other treasures in their familial strangeness, mystery’s toys. Are You Smart Enough to Understand Geoffrey Hill? « One-Minute Book Reviews
Some of the more familiar conjugations of verbs in the American common speech, as recorded by Charters or Lardner or derived from my own collectanea, are here set down: Chapter 9. The Common Speech. 3. The Verb
So Sonny he told 'em to thess set down, an 'make out a list of questions thet they'd all agree was about of a' equal hardness to them thet had been ast, an 'was of thess the kind of learnin' thet all the reg'lar gradj'ates's minds was sto'ed with, an 'thet either he knowed Sonny, a Christmas Guest
He set down one of his items on the floor and stretched his hand for a handshake and I shook his hand as firmly as I could with my free hand.
The Convention set down rules for deciding which country should deal with an asylum request.
I set down the wooden spoon I'd been stirring the hot chocolate with.
Or, for that matter, could the intertribal warfare be reconciled with the intertribal peace requirements set down for the buffalo hunters by the Stevens treaties?
This I neither "extenuate" nor "set down in malice," but merely record the fact. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916
Passengers may be set down and picked up only at the official stops.
Teddy set down his cup, a definite clink resounding throughout the office, and leaned forward.
He's going abroad, he tells me, and ettles to set down about Dunkirk in France.
That the martial clangour of a trumpet had something in it vastly more grand, heroic, and sublime, than the twingle twangle of a Jews-harp; that the delicate flexure of a rose-twig, when the half-blown flower is heavy with the tears of the dawn, was infinitely more beautiful and elegant than the upright stub of a burdock; and that from something innate and independent of all associations of ideas; - these I had set down as irrefragable, orthodox truths, until perusing your book shook my faith. The Letters of Robert Burns
James set down his glass cup on the edge of the sink, unclenching his fist, and the clash of metal and glass seemed to reverberate harshly in her ears.
In the cases of rare birds the measurements of the extreme length from tip of beak to tail -- again from inner edge of gape to vent, the bill and tail being measured separately from those points -- should be carefully taken, as also the length of culmen, carpus, and tarsus, and set down in inches and tenths, on the label, or in the note book, when the matter becomes too voluminous. Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling a
My plane was set down in a heavy fog.
Realme, I meane the renoumed Erle of Essex, and the right honorable the lord Charles Howard, lord high Admirall of England, made 1596. vnto the strong citie of Cadiz, I haue set downe as a double epiphonema to conclude this my first volume withall. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
It seemed to be taking hours, long sluicy kisses that she disappeared into, distant, empty, feeling his hand brusque on her tit, but also practical all of a sudden, yes, pushing him off and going into the closet down the hall and getting the spare mattress for the child’s bed, a Jewish heirloom of the generations. Underworld
I smiled and cheered inwardly as I set down the telephone receiver.
Hae, man, there's a cawker to keep your heart warm; and set down that bottle, "quoth I, wiping the saw-dust affn't with my hand," to get a toast; I'se warrant it for Deacon Jaffrey's best brown stout. The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
I remember glancing at the barograph as I set down the telephone. Movie Night
The former of these I do report deficient; which seemeth to me to be such a deficience as if, in the making of an inventory touching the state of a defunct, it should be set down that there is no ready money. The Advancement of Learning
The horse sports ‘a woman's crupper of velour, which hath two letters for her name fairly set down in studs, and [is] here and there pieced with packthread.’
She set down her bag and kicked off her tan suede mules as she walked back to her bedroom.
Nor must they foist in a syllable or clip one of the verse, but must enounce firmly and repeat what is set down for them in due order. The Growth of English Drama
Try me once," said the little C.C. G.W. M. de L. Risdale, and Jack let C.lumbus set down a figure and carry it through the various processes until he told him the result. The Hoosier School-boy
Obtaining and implementing of Compulsory Acquisition Orders is the appropriate procedure set down for dealing with access to land where land-owners have not consented in respect of those landholdings.
She winced as the men set down her delicate escritoire with a thud, scraping the fragile satinwood finish on the granite walk. PAINT THE WIND
Maria had to come back from a set down against Ai Sugiyama, too, but that doesn't make her a slow starter.
So off we set down the beerhouse.
With the first second generation player Teal Bunbury starting to play in MLS, roots are going to be set down for clubs and that means a more feverant fan base, better support, better "derbies" and more revenue for the leagues. New England's Steve Ralston Signs with NASL St. Louis AC
I sighed, wished for an electric heater, then set down to the task of rekindling the fire.
The second passenger asked to be set down at the church.
African colonists insist that the native Christians are the worst -- this should not be set down to Christianity, but to the civilisation which goes with it, and, in place of Kaffir beer and such like home-fermented brews of comparatively mild exhilarant character, introduces the undisciplined native mind to the furious joys of trade fire-water. Pan-Islam
The notes of the tour, set down on his return to Chelsea and republished in 1882, have only the literary merit of the vigorous descriptive touches inseparable from the author's lightest writing; otherwise they are mere rough-and-tumble jottings, with no consecutive meaning, of a rapid hawk's-eye view of the four provinces. Thomas Carlyle
Having received assurances that the appeal would not be set down in January, there was no reason for them to consult the notice board to check. Times, Sunday Times
But what can be stated is that tohunga or kaumatua should be consulted by whanau where makutu is suspected so that the whanau receive the correct expert advice as to how to deal with a situation, as such advice will be tempered by ensuring what is to be carried out by such exorcism remains within the laws of New Zealand as set down by Parliament," he said. Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
He then took a headset down from a clip above him, and pulled the boom microphone around his chin to his lips.
Alan was well enough pleased to see his finery so fully remembered and set down; only when he came to the word tarnish, he looked upon his lace like one a little mortified. Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour
After the silence continues, the golden-haired woman set down her coffee and stepped behind her husband, resting her arms around him.
Any day now the 11,000th visitor will wander into a small shopping arcade off the bedraggled main street of Sittingbourne in Kent, between the cash-for-gold jeweller's and the discount shop selling bales of cheap loo rolls, set down their shopping bags, and watch the history of Kent being rewritten. How Sittingbourne discovered an archaeological treasure trove
The hotel was set down at the bottom of the valley
He set down his fork with an awful finality, a sign that had always heralded the start of an argument, but his voice was mild.
set down your bags here
Offers of pipes, clasp-knives, tobacco, etc., rained upon him from the very men who had cuffed and kicked him like a dog but a few days before; and even his refusal of these gifts, which would formerly have been set down to conceit and "uppishness," was now taken in perfectly good part. Harper's Young People, March 30, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly
Perhaps in her desire to secure my services for the cause she may have shown herself overkind; or perhaps I was still young enough to set down to my own charms a success due to quite different causes. The Letter
For no sooner had Blair's vision been laid out in the Commons on Thursday than his own counter-proposals were being set down.
A flock of sea gulls is set down in the field of alfalfa recently harvested, a study in green and white.
He set down a sparklingly clean coil on the red dropcloth, completing a perfect grid. THE CRASH OF HENNINGTON
The helicopter arrived and circled and set down in a whirl of dust out on the bajada. No Country For Old Men
I would not "set down aught in malice," I would rather "extenuate," yet am I bound in truth to say that Autobiography of a female slave,
Carlino's libreria at Bia Maiore (today Corso Garibaldi), with its cose magiche (magic things) — notebooks, pens, and ink — which could tradurre in segni la parola (translate the word into signs); and even more than an individual word, these magic instruments could set down whole thoughts, ideas, and stories. Grazia Deledda: Voice of Sardinia
The cold, unsatisfying breakfast, and the half-hour assigned to "chevy," followed in due course, and after that Paul found himself set down with a class to await the German master, Herr Stohwasser. Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers
The attendance at church was, of course, set down to "business considerations," and was held to be quite consistent with the scepticism and loose morality deducible from the French book and the unground coffee. Pages from a Journal with Other Papers
He set down the large shallow gathering basket and unslung the berrying bucket from over his shoulder, advancing warily toward the berry bush. Tran Siberian
It is necessary to set down these additional rules.
Davies, last year's beaten finalist, came back from a set down to secure a 3-2 win against the England captain.
I set down my grocery bags and put on my disposable gloves.
James set down his glass cup on the edge of the sink, unclenching his fist, and the clash of metal and glass seemed to reverberate harshly in her ears.
They will measure ground by geometry, set down limits, divide and subdivide, but cannot yet prescribe quantum homini satis, or keep within compass of reason and discretion. Anatomy of Melancholy
On reaching the door of the house, the burier set down the lantern near the body of a young man which had just been thrust forth. Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire
Here, meeting Jocelyn's eye, Sir Pertinax set down the small Reeve, who having taken up and put on his great bascinet, scowled, whereupon Duke Jocelyn questioned him full meek: The Geste of Duke Jocelyn
Tyler set down the basket and unrolled the blanket, intent on setting things up himself.
The female models an exquisite statant, increment nest, well set down in the crotch of a tree, but the kind of a tree selected and the materials used vary in different localities. Ohio Arbor Day 1913: Arbor and Bird Day Manual Issued for the Benefit of the Schools of our State
Forces, and to watch the Monsters and the Beasts that beset the great Pyramid, and measure and record, and have so full a knowledge of these same that, did one but sway an head in the darkness, the same matter was set down with particularness in the Records. The Night Land
I set down thesac à doson the cobbled sidewalk in time to reread the curlicue announcement but no sooner had I translated the first word than the shop door flew open setting off a commotion of cowbells. French Word-A-Day:
The 16 Länder (federal states) aim to check whether individual schools have fulfilled their tasks as set down in the education standards.
And yet, from the blindness or inconsiderate examination of his critics, this latent wisdom -- this cryptical science of poetic effects -- in the mighty poet, has been misinterpreted, and set down to the account of defective skill, or even of puerile ostentation. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2
Any day now the 11,000th visitor will wander into a small shopping arcade off the bedraggled main street of Sittingbourne in Kent, between the cash-for-gold jeweller's and the discount shop selling bales of cheap loo rolls, set down their shopping bags, and watch the history of Kent being rewritten. How Sittingbourne discovered an archaeological treasure trove
As is usual in hasty judgments, the many have been stigmatized with the vices of the few: the misconduct of reckless servants has been held forth as bespeaking the habits of the whole class, and the misdealing cupidity of a few purveyors of fashionable luxuries has been set down as the almost uniform rule of conduct of the worthiest classes in the empire. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 576, November 17, 1832
If, however, the disadvantages of lingering under a broken constitution, and of being able to devote to this subject only a small portion of his time, snatched from the active pursuits of a business life, (_active_ as far as his imperfect health permits him to be,) are any apology for its defects, he hopes that the candid will set down the apology to his credit. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
He set down the large, wide-mouthed glass cradled between his hands. Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire
Gradually a system of obligations and service emerged, especially relating to manorial agrarian management, and set down in records called custumals.
He hears the two-part clunk of the receiver being set down.
In a course of earnest intellectual work, the pupil must too often, with his present aids, become aware of absence of comprehension; he is ever and anon brought to stand still and cast about for the unsupplied preliminary facts and truths, for the unhinted hypotheses and inferences, which his situation and previous study do not enable him to supply, but which are necessary to a _comprehension_ of the results set down for him to deal with. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
That the martial clangour of a trumpet had something in it vastly more grand, heroic, and sublime, than the twingle twangle of a jew's-harp: that the delicate flexure of a rose-twig, when the half-blown flower is heavy with the tears of the dawn, was infinitely more beautiful and elegant than the upright stub of a burdock; and that from something innate and independent of all associations of ideas; -- these I had set down as irrefragable, orthodox truths, until perusing your book shook my faith. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
Robert C. Wood, whose book popularized the word "suburbia," set down his drink and was professorially patient. Martin Nolan: ''The Vice President is The Only Person The President Can't Fire.''
He unstrung his bow and propped it in the corner keeping it strung too long ruined bow and string alike set down his blanketroll and saddlebags beside the wash-stand and threw his cloak across them. The Dragon Reborn
All of them being there set downe in a round ring, and the Queen in the middest, as being the appointed place of eminency, she spake: The Decameron
For this reason no man of intelligence will venture to express his philosophical views in language, especially not in language that is unchangeable, which is true of that which is set down in written characters. The Seventh Letter, by Plato
An ancient testimonie translated out of the olde Saxon lawes, containing among other things the aduancement of Marchants for their thrise crossing the wide seas, set downe by the learned The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
I myself am lifted onto another stretcher, carried into the ambulance, and set down beside Michael.
The second passenger asked to be set down at the church.
Espied by some timid man-of-war or blundering discovery-vessel from afar, when the distance obscuring the swarming fowls, nevertheless still shows the white mass floating in the sun, and the white spray heaving high against it; straightway the whale's unharming corpse, with trembling fingers is set down in the log -- shoals, rocks, and breakers hereabouts: beware! Moby Dick: or, the White Whale
The boy went to the door and listened, but all was perfectly still; so he set down the boots, rolled his apron into what he called a cow's tail, the process consisting in twisting it up very tightly and tucking it round his waist. The Bag of Diamonds
Eric Dodd set down his wire cutters and leather gloves.
It would have formed an amusement to the circle at Merton, if intemperance were set down to the master of the house, who always so prematurely cut short the sederunt of the gentlemen after dinner. The Life of Nelson
It is rather pitiful that Cork hospitals are being so slavish in considering following the lead set down by Dublin.
These orders if you diligently obserue, you may thereby perfectly set downe in the plats, that I haue giuen you your whole trauell, and description of your discouery, which is a thing that will be chiefly expected at your hands. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
To set down such things in my note-books, which carried some mention of certain places in the land of Israel, or afforded some light into the chorography of that land. From the Talmud and Hebraica
The floors were made from highly polished white marble that appeared to be as new as the day it had been set down.
Mr. Harding carefully set down his glass tumbler without shifting his gaze from his son.

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