Sentence examples for fell downstairs from inspiring English sources

There's a Chinaman here fell downstairs and broke his leg".

She stepped in a paint pot and fell downstairs.

He threaten-to attack one woman, and in her effort to escape him, she fell downstairs & became crippled.

Milt Jaffee, a sporting friend of the family, fell downstairs and broke either an arm or a leg.

"My bonds and shares, may fall downstairs.

Claimed he hadn't fallen downstairs in a hundred years & had no intention of starting now.

"I wasn't feeling at all good, my back hurt from falling downstairs after a rag two weeks before.

But within moments of being seated, I felt like the character in the Gershwin musical who sings: "My bonds and shares may fall downstairs.

Mrs Copperfield, horribly, fails to protect David from his stepfather, while Bleak House's Mrs Jellyby lets the children fall downstairs and get their heads stuck in railings because she is so busy with her charitable works.

This was the noisiest World Series to date, with the California fans endlessly whacking those scarlet or black-and-orange plastic ThunderStix together (the sound is like a shipment of tin pails falling downstairs), and the teams knocking out a hundred and forty-two hits and a record twenty-one homers and eighty-five runs.

At one point, Sage, writing of her mother's insistence on having her daughter's wayward teeth fixed, casually drops a bomb: she tells of the time her mother lost her own front teeth, "because they'd been smashed when she was 16, and had fallen downstairs in the dark, running to separate Grandpa and Grandma, who were fighting like fiends in the kitchen".