The calm reporting of the prose seemed entirely appropriate to the strange events of the book; it could not fully respond to the events, so it would set down what had happened with the simplest manner possible.
Thompson ends by saying that "no pen, unless it were filled with Thompson's gravy, can describe Thompson's dressing, and there is not paper enough in the world to contain the thoughts and adjectives it would set down, and not marble enough to serve for its monuments".
I'd set down my pool cue and was coming across the room to her, that big room with its buffed floors and the carpets thick enough for anything, when I noticed she was all dressed up, and not in business clothes but in the fringed boots and gauzy top she wore when we were going barhopping.
He'd also started forming the memories he would set down with such eloquence in A Moveable Feast.
In Zambia, he said, the ants were a regular sight, and whenever he saw them on the march, he would set down his video camera and record them.
"It was one of the last places where people with very different agendas would set down their weapons and come to talk.
They would set down, on canvas, a document that would show how each person related to a particular area of the Great Sandy Desert — and to the long stories that had been passed down for generations.
We have looked up the word in a large dictionary and would set down that a vomitory is something used by anybody leaving an amphitheatre or a tier of seats; it is an exit.
His present wife would set down the telephone to announce that Herbie Edgerton's cancer had come back and appeared to be into his lymph nodes and bones now; thirty years ago, his first wife, Alissa, would hang up and ask him if they were free for drinks and take-out pizza at the Bradleys' this Saturday.
Claire Hickson, Saferworld's head of communications, said: 'This once again highlights the incoherence of UK policy which could result in British military equipment being used to commit human rights abuses abroad.' At the launch of the Human Rights Report, Beckett said: 'This report would set down what we were doing to promote human rights and fundamental freedoms around the world.
