set down
verb- To write. · I set down this account so others may benefit from my experience.
- To fix; to establish; to ordain.
- To land. · The bush pilot set down on a sandbar.
- To regard (someone) in a particular way; to put down as. · I set him down as an idiot.
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The sun shone bright and the birds sang sweetly, and Dorothy did not feel nearly so bad as you might think a little girl would who had been suddenly whisked away from her own country and set down in the midst of a strange land.
“Thank you very much,” said the Scarecrow, when he had been set down on the ground.
And when a girl in the laundry set down a hot iron on my hand this afternoon I was all the way home making up that story about the Welsh rabbit.
He was not generally popular among the undergraduates, though it always seemed to me that what was set down as pride was really an attempt to cover extreme natural diffidence.
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