set down

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set down something

to write or print something. He set down his memories of his trip to Italy as a child. When you get a chance, set your ideas down on paper.

Related vocabulary: lay down something

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As the place of meeting was lonely and the time midnight, the State Official set down the Dome of the Capitol, and commanded the supposed traveller to throw up his hands. Fables by Aesop View in context Then I set down in a chair by the window and tried to think of something cheerful, but it warn't no use. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain, Mark View in context "You were assaulted without provocation, of course," said the District Attorney, preparing to set down the answer. Fantastic-Fables by Bierce, Ambrose View in context More results

References in classic literature

As the place of meeting was lonely and the time midnight, the State Official set down the Dome of the Capitol, and commanded the supposed traveller to throw up his hands.

Fables by Aesop View in context

Then I set down in a chair by the window and tried to think of something cheerful, but it warn't no use.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain, Mark View in context

"You were assaulted without provocation, of course," said the District Attorney, preparing to set down the answer.

Fantastic-Fables by Bierce, Ambrose View in context

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