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OUTLIER Word Stories · How I knew it

ADOWN

“I came across "adown" as a kid. My mom gave me the book Duncton Wood, and a line from the book stuck with me over the years: Let no mole adown our bodies, that may hurt our sorrowing souls.”

@threadwings · Duncton Wood by William Horwood

Found on Day 136

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