Sentence examples for down a son from inspiring English sources

From time to time, when the conversation threatened to become manageable, Tony would pause from doting on Flossie to shout down a son or daughter, observing that they had never had a single clear thought since being born.

In striking down a "Son of Sam" law, the Supreme Court held that the government can't sequester income from speech based on its content, even speech about crime, because that would punish the speech itself.

(d) Referred to a Secret Service agent who skied into him and knocked him down as a "son of a bitch".

Or their lives are turned upside down when a son or daughter needs to move back home, or when they find themselves without recourse when their grandchildren are torn from them in custody battles.

There's the deceptively bouncy circular narrative: boy is born, father walks out, boy grows up to join circus, it all goes wrong, he settles down, has a son, then he walks out, leading to the punchline, "But what will happen to the boy when circus comes to town?" You might be inclined to write off Nilsson Schmilsson if you've seen it filed alongside your auntie's Mantovani.

"Does my son know how proud I am of him?" This boils down to a son's innate need to be affirmed by his father.

She's the epitome of loyalty, sticking with Bernice when she's free to go back home and not risk her life trying to track down an ungrateful son who's gotten mixed up in human trafficking in Tijuana.

One of the most altruistic of the traditions surrounding port is the custom of a father or godfather laying down port for a son or godson.

Now, six days later, the couple sat with their backs to a 10th-floor window that looks east across a city that Mr. Malloy has governed since 1995, talking about an up-and-down battle with a son's depression and drug abuse.

"My grandfather looks down at the tofu cream cheese, and I always think the picture is going to fall down," said Mark Federman, 54, a son of one of the three daughters in the store's name.

Libya's relations with Switzerland broke down in 2008 when a son of Colonel Qaddafi was arrested in Geneva and charged with abusing domestic servants.