So abased, so monotonous is everything that meets the eye, that when the Ganges comes down it might be expected to wash the excrescence back into the soil.
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
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— to lower in rank, office, prestige, or esteem
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— lower on an escutcheon than is usual
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