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This doesn't mean I was a bully, it was just that people couldn't get me down the way other teens would be cast down.
After a brief fillip Wall Street went into retreat, cast down by sombre corporate trading news from a range of companies.
They were a group of men who were very distressed, very cast down by their illness and its difficulties.
Then the boy and the girl would cast down and circle with the bottom couple.
He walked up the stairs and found Rena sitting on his bed and her eyes were cast down.
She looked as if she was shrinking into herself, her eyes cast down at the floor.
Her head bowed and eyes cast down, she made a poor figure upon the pedestal, and most people did not look twice after seeing her lame foot.
I was either cast down and disappointed, or raised up and elated, depending on whether I was feeling better or worse.
I jerked up my chin to see my uncles had already cast down their shovels.
Her shoulders slumped forward, some invisible burden pressing hard on her, and her eyes were cast down and away, as if inspecting the baseboards for dust.
And, while the joy which shone in his features bore witness to a clear conscience, the light of his countenance was not cast down to the ground.
His eyes cast down, Farrell seems to get smaller and weaker — his body implodes.
The statue depicts the figure of a woman, hooded and cloaked, head heavy, with her eyes cast down and her chin resting on her hand.
Here a radical challenge to the human was cast down in a work of anti-creation.
It is the same as we return to the story of Jesus Christ talking to his disciples concerning the stones of the temple being cast down.
And a host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground.
At the time of our greatest success, the enlargement to 25, we find ourselves cast down by doubts and recriminations.
For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
Far from being cast down by the goal, England concentrated on reaching half-time without falling further behind before switching to the attack with renewed vigour.
The joyful ones also tend to draw more friends, who would rather bathe in the sunshine of happiness than to be cast down into a gloomy depression.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Orinda cast down her beautiful eyes under the expressive glance of her admirer.
I was bitterly cast down, crestfallen, numbed with the blow of her refusal.
Camilla looked hastily away, and her whole set, abashed by so unseasoned an inquiry, cast down their eyes.
Mme. morrel cast down her eyes and a heightened color overspread her charming face.
For thee, oppressed king, am I cast down,Myself could else outfrown false fortune's frown.
Theodora bent her head and cast down her eyes, not in sullenness, but in sorrow.
She waited the reply, eyes cast down on the tatami, for she at least had some remains of modesty.
She was standing a little apart from me, her eyes cast down and thoughtful.
At that she cast down flint and firestone and stared blankly.
This angered Venus, and she resolved to cast down her earthly rival.
She sat with her dark, handsome face steadily averted, her eyes cast down, and the rich color in her cheeks warmer and deeper than usual.
She was not so materially cast down, however, but that a little time and the return of Harriet were very adequate restoratives.
At last he returned to his palace quite cast down, because he wished so much to have a real Princess for his wife.
The old man cast down his eyes at this reproof, and they met those of his daughter.
Rose Waterford cast down her eyes demurely to give greater effect to her reply.
Peggotty, standing with one hand on the gunwale of the boat, and his eyes cast down, put his disengaged hand before his face.
Perceiving their simplicity, he cast down a huge log into the lake.
The captain of the distressed vessel, at last heading the injunction, cast down his bucket, and it came up full of fresh, sparkling water from the mouth of the Amazon River.
My Lady cast down her eyes, and spoke in the littlest of little voices.
We voted against that saloon, and went out cast down with the knowledge that we had lost an evening and wasted twenty cents for beer that we didn't want.
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