"Letting down" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... short intervals during the day, for Stonor's horse was growing very tired. Whenever they halted they began to fence with words in much the same way, each trying to discover the other's weak joint without letting down his own guard. It seemed to Stonor that, under his cynical insolence, his prisoner was growing ever ...
— The Woman from Outside - [on Swan River] • Hulbert Footner
... asked the captain, letting down the chest he carried with a shock that caused the frail tenement to quiver from cellar ...
— The Young Trawler • R.M. Ballantyne |
