bring someone back down to earth with a bump

With the fall of dark the woman left him sitting gloomily asmoke on his soap-box before the fire, and went up into the van.

... wherein said foredraft part includes at least a moorage hull part, — Floating offshore structure : U.S. Patent Number 4,519,728, 1985

Is my friend all perfection, all virtue and discretion? Has he not humours to be endured?