"Go down on" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Drive," said the mucker, with a grin, when the work was completed; "an' now I'll go down on de river ...
— The Mucker • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... Don't you know me? I know why you don't recognize me. You all think me dead, but I'm very much alive. I did not go down on the Abyssinia. I was picked up and taken to San Francisco and have been in a hospital there ever since. I have just come home. ...
— The Mask - A Story of Love and Adventure • Arthur Hornblow
... Baku, first class. I go down on the platform to the carriages. According to my custom, I install myself in a comfortable corner. A few travelers follow me while the cosmopolitan populace invade the second and third-class carriages. The doors are shut after ...
— The Adventures of a Special Correspondent • Jules Verne
... anybody, but to sort of intimidate Brown if he should catch him. Suddenly he saw an old fellow coming towards him carrying a gun about a foot longer than his own. The young fellow wilted right down on the ground and never moved. He happened to go down on a big prickly cactus, but he never stirred, cactus or no cactus. He thought Brown had caught him, and that he was done for. The old man kept coming nearer and nearer. He was almost to him. The young fellow concluded to make a brave fight. So he jumped up and yelled. The ...
— The Voyage of the Rattletrap • Hayden Carruth
... this holy mosque? And amongst the faithful prostrate here in prayer, none who will rise and make indignant protest? Who after this will speak to us of the fanaticism of the Egyptians? . . . Too meek, rather, they seem to me everywhere. Take any church you please in Europe where men go down on their knees in prayer, and I should like to see what kind of a welcome would be accorded to a party of Moslem tourists who—to suppose the impossible—behaved so badly as ...
— Egypt (La Mort De Philae) • Pierre Loti
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