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step down

to stop doing a job or stop having a position. She stepped down as captain of the team.

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And, perhaps, if the god-driver had an ungovernable desire to step down, put up his flame-colored fists and manfully dispute the right of way, he would have probably been immediately opposed by a scowling mortal with two sets of very hard knuckles. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Crane, Stephen View in context Be not silent from any mistaken pity and tenderness for him; for, believe me, Hester, though he were to step down from a high place, and stand there beside thee, on thy pedestal of shame, yet better were it so than to hide a guilty heart through life. The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context And now, you've spoke up free, and I'll take it kind if you'd step down into that there cabin and get me a--well, a--shiver my timbers Treasure Island by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context More results

References in classic literature

And, perhaps, if the god-driver had an ungovernable desire to step down, put up his flame-colored fists and manfully dispute the right of way, he would have probably been immediately opposed by a scowling mortal with two sets of very hard knuckles.

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Crane, Stephen View in context

Be not silent from any mistaken pity and tenderness for him; for, believe me, Hester, though he were to step down from a high place, and stand there beside thee, on thy pedestal of shame, yet better were it so than to hide a guilty heart through life.

The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context

And now, you've spoke up free, and I'll take it kind if you'd step down into that there cabin and get me a--well, a--shiver my timbers

Treasure Island by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context

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