Looking after sheep in the desert was a sad Downcome from the possibility of sitting on the throne of Egypt.
"Expositions of Holy Scripture Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers"
Alexander Maclaren
Peggy was anxious to make the girls as happy as she could, and feared that they must feel this a Downcome; but her hands were full of work, and her head of cares.
"Mr. Hogarth's Will"
Catherine Helen Spence
If it had only been the arm of flesh we had to encounter, we were noways afraid-though it was a sad Downcome from the solemn awe of coming to grips with the prince of darkness and his emissaries.
"The Dew of Their Youth"
S. R. Crockett