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descend as in: descend the mountain
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We saw the rocket descend.
descend = move downward
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The path descends to the bottom of the mountain.
descends = slopes downward
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She saw him as he was descending the stairs.
descending = going down
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Jack and Jill went up the hill, and then they descended.
descended = went down
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The dangling, shiny prize of peace just out of grasp until finally her body descends to the bottom and settles in murky quiet.
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descends = goes downward
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At least once a day, Hans Hubermann would descend the basement steps and share a conversation.
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descend = move down
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I think of concealed pits, descending nets, a thread that when broken sends a poisonous dart into your heart.
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descending = falling
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Lina's arms were just long enough to reach past Poppy and hold on to the ladder. She descended very slowly.
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descended = climbed down
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Baba was fattening his pipe and I was asking him to tell the story about the winter a pack of wolves had descended from the mountains in Herat and forced everyone to stay indoors for a week,
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descended = come down
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And the deeper I descended, the cruder the game graphics got.
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descended = moved down
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It was on the downhill side of the street, and we had to descend a set of stairs to get to it.
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descend = go down
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After descending about eighty feet, I got back on reasonably solid ground.
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descending = moving downward
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Kinney turned the plane again, descended very low over camp, and dipped his wings.
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descended = moved downward
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The helicopter descended rapidly.
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Wearing his new sandals, he descended the stairs silently.
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descended = walked down
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We nodded as she slowly descended the stairs.
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descended = came down
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Harry, Ron, and Hermione descended Professor Trelawney's ladder and the winding stair in silence,
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descended = moved downward
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She bent her knees, and her board started to descend.
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descend = move downward
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The road descended through a jungle of...
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descended = sloped downward
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Slowly the great creature turned around so that the shadow was behind them, so that they saw only the stars unobscured, the soft throb of starlight on the mountain, the descending circle of the great moon swiftly slipping over the horizon.
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descending = moving down
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At first we saw nothing but a kudzu-covered front porch, but a closer inspection revealed an arc of water descending from the leaves and splashing in the yellow circle of the street light, some ten feet from source to earth, it seemed to us.
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descending = moving downward
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Vittoria looked down at the staircase descending into the void and suddenly wanted to turn back.
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descending = going down
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The board walk ended and he moved a little ahead of me as we descended a sloping path toward our first class.
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descended = moved down
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Noah slipped off his boots, then ran up the stairs, descending a minute later.
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descending = moving downward
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Okonkwo's machete descended twice and the man's head lay beside his uniformed body.
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descended = moved down
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I plop yoga mats on the rooftop, and we sit cross-legged to watch the sun descend.
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descend = set (move downward)
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They knew very well why he hadn't: because of the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh; because of the unbearable blood.
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descending = moving downward
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With something like panic Kit watched Goodwife Gruff descend the ladder and stride ahead of her husband along the wharf.
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descend = climb down
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He listened as she descended the stairs.
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- But this optimism lasted only a moment, because as they descended into the valley, they saw that it wasn't as beautiful as it might have been-indeed, as it once was. (source)
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Above, vultures circled, preparing to descend on the body as well.
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descend = move down
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Descending the ancient staircase was far worse than clutching at vines on the cliff face above.
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descending = moving down
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A metal ladder descends to the sand.
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Through the window he sees palm trees and banana trees, a damp, drab sky The wheels touch the ground, the aircraft is sprayed with disinfectant, and then they descend onto the tarmac of Dum Dum Airport, breathing in the sour, stomach-turning, early morning air.
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descend = move downward
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Nadia did not offer a prayer, or scatter rose petals, but knelt down and put her hand on the mound, damp from the recent visit of a grave-tender with a watering can, and shut her eyes for a long while, as the sound of a jetliner descending to the nearby airport came and went.
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descending = moving downward
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The fat hand descended onto the globe, stopped the spinning.
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Down goes Veruca! Down the drain!
And here, perhaps, we should explain
That she will meet, as she descends,
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With only a few seconds before they descend on him, Cedric slips out of his turry black vest-Donald quickly grabs it-and drops his bookbag full of clothes.
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Finally, the machine's pitch descended to a steady hum before slowing to a halt.
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descended = moved downward
- He descended through the dark with her. (source)
- They descended the Gianicolo on winding paths, streets, and stairs. (source)
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...a great bird like an eagle high in the air, descending slowly in wide circles down towards the earth.
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…flag of the idea which I am fighting: the idea that need is a sacred idol requiring human sacrifices-that the need of some men is the knife of a guillotine hanging over others-that all of us must live with our work, our hopes, our plans, our efforts at the mercy of the moment when that knife will descend upon us-and that the extent of our ability is the extent of our danger, so that success will bring our heads down on the block, while failure will give us the right to pull the cord.
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descend = move downward
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The mossy roof of an ancient stone dovecote rises from the mass of colour; as we watched, three white doves descended onto it as if they'd been expecting us.
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So too were the stepped pyramids, the deep-dug fighting pits with their rings of descending seats, the sulfurous fountains and gloomy wine caves, and the ancient walls that encircled them.
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descending = progressively lower
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Caspian found himself descending a dark stairway into the earth,
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descending = moving downward on
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Sam raised his lance and a jagged line of light ran up into the heavens, provoking a dozen more to descend upon the field.
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descend = come down
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Their summits were streaked with snow, and the clouds above them were turning to fire as the sun descended on the last few minutes of its daily journey.
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descended = moved down
- Hurriedly, lest he should have time to become frightened, he descended the steps and crossed the narrow street. (source)
- As the three men descended the stairs he moved a step or two forward. (source)
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As they flew over the crematorium, the plane shot upwards on the column of hot air rising from the chimneys, only to fall as suddenly when it passed into the descending chill beyond.
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descending = moving downward
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With Jordan's slender golden arm resting in mine, we descended the steps and sauntered about the garden.
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descended = moved down
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…is no other one but one now, one, going now, rising now, sailing now, leaving now, wheeling now, soaring now, away now, all the way now, all of all the way now; one and one is one, is one, is one, is one, is still one, is still one, is one descendingly, is one softly, is one longingly, is one kindly, is one happily, is one in goodness, is one to cherish, is one now on earth with elbows against the cut and slept-on branches of the pine tree with the smell of the pine boughs and the…
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descendingly = in a manner that moves downward
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They cross to R. steps, increasing speed, descend steps into theatre aisle and run off in an increasing blaze of light.
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descend = move down
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Then came the search for a place to descend, which descent was ultimately made by the aid of the rope, and night found them back on the river with a quarter of a mile to the day's credit.
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descend = move downward
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If God himself descended from heaven into their club and said you were innocent, they would disbelieve him.
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descended = came down
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They descend the hill in a series of spine-jolting jumps,
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It descends so steeply over the harbour that part of the bank has fallen away, and some of the graves have been destroyed.
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descends = slopes downward
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She moved her hand about here and there in the air and descended on one of the saucers.
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descended = moved downward
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Then he descended the steps of the Temple
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descended = moved downward on
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Time to turn back and descend the stair,
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descend = climb down
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Such a tile was about to descend upon the elegant and decorous public now assembled to hear the music.
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descend = fall downward
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But she did not listen to him and rapidly descended the stairs.
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descended = moved down
- He passed the spot where the gibbet of his ancestor and Sue's had stood, and descended the hill. (source)
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Instead of ascending he was descending...
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Its front is ornamented with a portico of half-a-dozen wooden pillars, supporting a balcony, beneath which a flight of wide granite steps descends towards the street.
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descends = slopes downward
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I now heard her descending the great stairs.
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The sky was gloomy, and the shortest streets were choked up with a dingy mist, half thawed, half frozen, whose heavier particles descended in a shower of sooty atoms, as if all the chimneys in Great Britain had, by one consent, caught fire, and were blazing away to their dear hearts' content.
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descended = moved downward
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He retired with bowed head, traversed the antechamber, and slowly descended the stairs, as though hesitating at every step.
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descended = walked down
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With this interjection, the knife descended on the puff, and it was in two, but the result was not satisfactory to Tom, for he still eyed the halves doubtfully.
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descended = moved down
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We passed through a range of low arches, descended, passed on, and ... arrived at a deep crypt,
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they were descending the steps leading to the cavern.
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The sun is yet high in the heavens; before it descends to hide itself behind your snowy precipices and illuminate another world, you will have heard my story and can decide.
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It is true there were short and fleeting moments, when the fiery eyes of Magua were seen glittering, like the fabled organs of the basilisk through the dusty wreath by which he was enveloped, and he read by those short and deadly glances the fate of the combat in the presence of his enemies; ere, however, any hostile hand could descend on his devoted head, its place was filled by the scowling visage of Chingachgook.
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descend = move downward
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The territory comprehended in the first region descends towards the north with so imperceptible a slope that it may almost be said to form a level plain.
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descends = slopes downward
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They had descended two more floors when another set of quiet joined theirs.
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The main pass had descended from Landi Kotal through Shinwari territory to Landi Khana.
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descended = sloped downward
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To descend into the confines of the canyon, however, is to arrive in another world.
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descend = move downward
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Louie took out his binoculars, descended to the greenhouse, and began scanning.
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descended = moved down
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William's heavy hand descended on his shoulder.
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descended = came down
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The road began to descend, and Mike Bowman concentrated on driving.
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descend = slope downward
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I wait, hopefully, for a parachute to descend from the sky.
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descend = come down
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From there I was able to descend the ladderlike frame of the scaffolding.
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descend = move down
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It would be hard to miss the wall of fire descending on me.
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descending = moving down
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We descended in single file. The steps groaned under Baba's weight.
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descended = climbed down (stairs)
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"You've become quite the celebrity these past few days," he said as we began to descend.
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descend = move down
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I have about five minutes to eat a bowl of hot grain and stew before the prep team descends.
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descends = goes down
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"Lobby," I said hoarsely, and the elevator began to descend.
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descend = move downward
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Then, reminding myself to breathe, I crawled outside and descended the ladder.
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descended = moved down
- She waved to me as she descended the steps. (source)
- I walked to the northern edge of the hilltop and descended the crumbling cliff face I found there. (source)
- As I descended the staircase, my sword began to glow. (source)
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If he could just reach it — But as he stretched out a hand towards it, a centaur's hoof descended upon the wand and it broke cleanly in half.
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descended = came down
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"David?" Mama questioned unbelievingly as Christopher-John and Little Man descended eagerly and dashed after Stacey and me toward the barbed-wire fence.
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descended = moved downward
- In this case it was a joy-riding teenage couple in a stolen EMV outside the traffic lanes, accelerating to Mach 1.5 with all lights and transponders off to avoid detection, who defied all odds by colliding with Aunt Tetha's ancient Vikken as it descended toward the Bussard City Opera House landing apron. (source)
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They descended the long stone stairway, and when they came out into the main tunnel, Lina stood still, staring at the river.
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Then, three miles up, the wind steadied and bore it in a descending curve round the sky and swept it in a great slant across the reef and the lagoon toward the mountain.
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A week earlier I'd skied over to the southeast side of the mountain to take a look at the route by which I'd intended to descend the peak after climbing the north wall, a route that Fred Beckey, the legendary alpinist, had followed in 1946 in making the first ascent of the Thumb.
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descend = move down
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Muldoon didn't like Wu standing there with the door open, and he was about to say so, when he saw a shadow descend from above, and he realized at once what had happened.
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As he descended, Kinney saw POWs scattered over the paddy, looking "dirty, ragged and haggard," and a lone man trying to pull them back.
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descend as in: in descending order
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The three most populous countries in descending order are China, India, and the United States.
descending = moving from larger numbers to smaller numbers
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She practiced by playing a descending scale.
descending = moving downward (figuratively) to a lower pitch
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These are my goals in descending order of importance.
descending = moving downward (figuratively) on a scale of importance
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The three largest countries in descending order are Russia, Canada, and the United States.
descending = larger to smaller
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Print one list by name in alphabetical order and another by amount contributed in descending order.
descending = moving from larger numbers to smaller numbers
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They seemed to be numbered in descending order.
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descending = moving downward from larger to smaller numbers
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And when you're a man who is variously described as dutiful, deferential, obsequious, slavish and brown-nosingly corrupt, in descending order of distinction, you need to make a show of character now and then.
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descending = moving downward on a scale from most to least distinct
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The ballot itself was a long, narrow piece of paper with the parties listed in descending order to the left, and then the symbol of the party and a picture of its leader to the right.
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descending = from largest to smallest (probably from the party with the most members to the one with the least members)
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Very slowly, "Oh, Ford, Ford, Ford," it said diminishingly and on a descending scale.
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descending = moving downward in lowness of pitch
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For the office of the dead they adopt a tone so low that the voices of women can hardly descend to such a depth.
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descend = move lower
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descend as in: descend from royalty
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She descended from an old Italian noble family.
descended = came from (had as an ancestor)
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They say all dogs are descended from wolves.
descended = came from (evolved from)
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A group of languages that descend form a common language ancestor is known as a language family.
descend = come from (in the past)
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I descended from Armenian immigrants.
descended = came from (had as ancestors)
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It is a tradition descending from an over-1000-year-old religious practice.
descending = coming from (in the past)
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She concludes that all mammalian species are likely descended from a common ancestor.
descended = came from (evolved from)
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My dead father, who liked a joke, peace to his bones, used to say, talking of our ancestors, that the ancient stock of the Simeonov-Pischins was descended from that identical horse that Caligula made a senator.
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descended = came from (as through genetics)
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Some people believe that the Pashtuns descend from one of the lost tribes of Israel, and my father said, "It is as though we are the Israelites leaving Egypt, but we have no Moses to guide us."
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descend = come genetically
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Like every other animal on this planet, we're descended from a single-celled organism that lived millions of years ago.
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descended = evolved from
- Descended from the dinosaurs. (source)
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It was at her soirees in this house that Anna mastered the ancient art of descending a staircase.
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descending = originating or coming from
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A third layer of nativeness was composed of those who others thought directly descended, even in the tiniest fraction of their genes, from the human beings who had been brought from Africa to this continent centuries ago as slaves.
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descended = come from (genetically)
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Do you believe we're descended from apes?
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descended = evolved
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I remembered Randolph telling me something about that—how the Chase family was descended from ancient Swedish royalty, blah, blah, blah.
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descended = genetically
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The Sukuma people of Africa say that the language is kinatuns, the tongue of the ancestors of all magicians, who are thought to have descended from one particular tribe.
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descended = come (genetically)
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The tribal lineage descends from the father's side, the male ancestors.
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descends = comes (genetically)
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Well, they have a queen, like Attolia, so the throne can't descend only in the male line.
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descend = pass onward
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And well they might, for these two were King Frank and Queen Helen from whom all the most ancient Kings of Narnia and Archenland are descended.
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descended = come from (genetically)
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They're an ancient line, descended from the First Men.
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descended = genetically
- And of course they were descended from the ancient kings of Ireland, as every Irishman is. (source)
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Some say that he is a bear descended from the great and ancient bears of the mountains that lived there before the giants came.
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descended = come (genetically)
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The builders did not know the uses to which their work would descend;
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descend = originate or come from
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The Carraways are something of a clan, and we have a tradition that we're descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch, but the actual founder of my line was my grandfather's brother, who came here in fifty-one, sent a substitute to the Civil War, and started the wholesale hardware business that my father carries on today.
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descended = related through an ancestor
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For example, the clans of the American hunting tribes commonly regarded themselves as descended from half-animal, half-human ancestors.
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descended = having come (as though genetically)
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He thought it eccentric of Lancelot, to say the least, to lose his reason over a lover's tiff—and he wanted to find out, by looking up the Ban genealogy, whether there had been a streak of lunacy in the family which could account for it. If there were, it might descend on Galahad.
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descend = pass (genetically)
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I am going among the latter, who claim to be descended from Attila and the Huns.
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descended = come from (genetically)
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Beneath a great tree in the neighborhood fell the German general, Duplat, descended from a French family which fled on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
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descended = came from (as through genetics)
- He was descended from a good family in France, where he had lived for many years in affluence, respected by his superiors and beloved by his equals. (source)
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They are descended, on the maternal side, from the same noble line; and, on the father's, from respectable, honourable, and ancient—though untitled—families.
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descended = come from (genetically)
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But with the blood of this ancient royal race, many of their infirmities had descended to Athelstane.
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descended = passed genetically
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Let us recollect the situation of France seven hundred years ago, when the territory was divided amongst a small number of families, who were the owners of the soil and the rulers of the inhabitants; the right of governing descended with the family inheritance from generation to generation; force was the only means by which man could act on man, and landed property was the sole source of power.
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descended = came (through inheritance)
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Others say that he is a man descended from the first men who lived before Smaug or the other dragons came into this part of the world, and before the goblins came into the hills out of the North.
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descended = come (genetically)
- For most of them (together with their scattered relations in the hills and mountains) were descended from the ancient tribes that never went to Faerie in the West. (source)
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Such was this war, made by the princes descended from Louis XIV.
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descended = who came from (as through genetics)
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...yet no sooner were the victuals put there, than he proved that the appetite of his Saxon ancestors had descended to him along with their other qualities.
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descended = passed (as through genetics)
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Who would have thought that you, noble Athelstane—that you, descended of Harold's blood, and that I, whose father was not the worst defender of the Saxon crown, should be prisoners to a vile Norman, in the very hall in which our ancestors held such high festival?
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descended = come (genetically)
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That its life has descended to the stalwart and well-shaped heir who approaches,
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descended = passed (as though genetically or through time)
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And yet it is wonderful to see how this false notion of pleasure bewitches many who delight themselves with the fancy of their nobility, and are pleased with this conceit—that they are descended from ancestors who have been held for some successions rich, and who have had great possessions; for this is all that makes nobility at present.
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descended = genetically
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With equal pleasure I have as often taken notice that Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people--a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs, and who, by their joint counsels, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established general liberty and…
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descended = having come from (as through genetics and shared culture)
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With fire and sword pursue the perjur'd brood;
Our arms, our seas, our shores, oppos'd to theirs;
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descend as in: descend into poverty
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Partisan politics has descended to new lows.
descended = move downward (figuratively) to a worse condition
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When she got sick, the family descended into poverty.
descended = move downward (figuratively) to a worse or less prestigious situation
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- I will not descend to hurling insults in return.
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The country descended into chaos.
descended = move downward (figuratively) to a worse condition
- She predicts the country will descend into anarchy.
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Shawn said it was time to mount, and I climbed onto the barn roof, sure the corral would descend into violence.
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descend = figuratively, move downward to a worse situation
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Once again in his tormenter's clutches, Louie descended back into a state of profound stress.
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descended = moved (to a lower or less good condition)
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Felt myself slipping, but even that's a metaphor. Descending, but that is, too. Can't describe the feeling itself except to say that I'm not me.
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descending = moving to a worse situation
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That night the electricity went out, cut off by the authorities, and Kensington and Chelsea descended into darkness.
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descended = transformed (to a lower or less good condition)
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While Fantine had been slowly descending from wretchedness to wretchedness, her native town had prospered.
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descending = moving to a worse situation
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To see me now, Thomasin, gives you no idea of what I have been; of what depths I have descended to in these few last days.
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All approach as near to it as they can; some as they rise, others as they descend.
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descend = move downward (figuratively) to a worse or less prestigious situation
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Having descended into proper madness, I begin to make the connections that crack open the long-dormant case of Russell Pickett's disappearance.
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descended = moved (to a lower or less good condition)
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Having, through various causes, failed in his business, he had descended to the calling of a carter and a laborer.
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The lower she descended, the darker everything grew about her, the more radiant shone that little angel at the bottom of her heart.
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descended = moved to a lower or less good condition
- Had this rough and unlettered man gathered a perfectly clear perception of the succession of ideas through which he had, by degrees, mounted and descended to the lugubrious aspects which had, for so many years, formed the inner horizon of his spirit? (source)
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descend as in: descend into deeper thought
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The further you descend from more abstract to more concrete words, the easier it is to visualize the word's meaning.
descend = move from more general to more specific
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We descended into a deeper conversation.
descended = moved from more superficial to deeper thought
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The problem became much clearer when my investigation descended into details.
descended = moved from the more general to the more specific
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Our conversation descended from philosophical goals to political maneuvering.
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You're going to need to descend the abstraction ladder to explain that to me.
descend = move from more general to more specific
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Did he descend to any details?
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Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him, that, after having descended into these depths, after having long groped among the darkest of these shadows, he had at last found one of these diamonds, one of these truths, and that he now held it in his hand, and he was dazzled as he gazed upon it.
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descended = thought more deeply
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... if, after having established the general principles of government, it descended to the details of public business;
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descended = moved from the more general to the more specific
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descend as in: thieves descended upon us
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Despair descended upon us.
descended = came suddenly
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Night descended upon us.
descended = arrived
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Thieves descended upon us.
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A feeling of hopelessness descended upon us.
descended = came
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A seriousness descended on the crowd.
descended = came suddenly
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These moods descended on her suddenly and for no apparent reason.
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The city was silent and emptied of people and traffic as if a plague had descended.
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descended = arrived
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An uncomfortable silence descended.
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descended = developed or arrived
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At last the term ended, and a silence deep as the snow on the grounds descended on the castle.
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descended = came or arrived
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What surprised her was how quickly the Juvey-cops had descended on them.
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Blackout descended, and a hush fell.
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A long silence descended over the room.
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But really, I'm sure it was because she loved throwing a little end-of-the-year party for her bees, seeing them descend on the supers like they'd discovered honey heaven.
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Everyone descended on the table in a chaotic flurry, knocking over glasses and sending forks onto the floor and picking up plates (which did not match, Phoebe pointed out to me) and saying, "That's my plate."
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Every August, recruiters from prestigious law firms descend on New Haven, hungry for the next generation of high-quality legal talent.
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In the midst of peace, the enemy has now descended upon us.
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A forlornness would descend on her like a shroud then and would lift only when Eid had passed.
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The remainder of the afternoon went by in the gentle gloom that descends when relatives appear, but was dispelled when we heard a car turn in the driveway.
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If the children loiter too long on your side of the loop, all the many years from which they have abstained will descend upon them at once, in a matter of hours.
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Walking back to the school grounds from the railroad station in the descending darkness we overtook a lone figure sliding along the snow-covered edge of the street.
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Arena attendants, all dull-eyed Silvers, descend on us like a flock of pigeons.
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As I neared my cabin, I felt an unaccustomed tiredness descend on me like a cold drizzle.
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- Tita no longer had a mother but she couldn't get rid of the feeling that any minute some awful punishment was going to descend on her from the great beyond, courtesy of Mama Elena. (source)
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Stillness descended on them.
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A smart crackle of blows, a few agonized howls, and silence and order descended suddenly on the room.
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By which time, may the peace of White Imagination have descended on the queendom.
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The following day experts descended like buzzards, recovering Missy's remains and bagging the sheet along with whatever else they could find.
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But the cedar waxwings didn't just descend on the tree willy-nilly.
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A sharp fear descended also, and the call to prayer they had often heard in the distance from the park was silenced.
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Another pledge to myself: once I became a god again, I would descend upon this camp and take away all their horns.
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With the preparation under way, a peaceful silence descended upon them.
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We're going to need at least five battalions of those people before the Sardaukar descend on us.
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- And then professionals will descend on the house, neatly and efficiently separating the valuable from the sentimental, lingering only over items of indeterminate origin or worth. (source)
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That is to say, a sense of awe seemed to descend on them.
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- I breathed deeply, remained in one spot, waiting to feel the peace that is supposed to descend upon the dead, waiting to see the light that hangs above the fields of the landscapist's lament. (source)
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Next an ancient fog, an Entoto mist full of shifting shapes and animal sounds descended on me, and by the forty-ninth day I had lost consciousness.
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On moonlit evenings the boys would descend upon them, set them running, and try to outrace them in the wagon; they seldom did, for the scrawniest coyote can hit fifty miles an hour, whereas the wagon's top speed was thirty-five, but it was a wild and beautiful kind of fun, the wagon skidding across the sand, the fleeing coyotes framed against the moon-as Bob said, it sure made your heart hurry.
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They don't know it, but the wrath of the Lord is about to descend upon them.
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Eager to escape before the lot of them could descend upon him, Eragon slipped away between the rows of tents, pleased with what he had accomplished.
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Then quiet descended.
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Media scrutiny, after all, creates a powerful incentive: if two sumo wrestlers or their stables have been rigging matches, they might be leery to continue when a swarm of journalists and TV cameras descend upon them.
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And just as he did realize this, the players on his team fused instinctively with the players on the other team into a single, howling, bloodthirsty mob that descended upon him from all sides with foul curses and swinging fists.
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For years I had seen the shadow of madness descend upon him.
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- Ann has stayed behind to practice her aria for Assembly Day—the day when our families will descend upon Spence and see what marvels of womanhood we're becoming. (source)
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Ser Stafford will put himself between Robb's army and Lannisport, which means the city will be undefended when we descend on it by sea.
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And as the media descend onto Parkland Hospital even in the midst of Jackie's lonely Pieta, there is no way in the world Jackie will allow John Fitzgerald Kennedy to be photographed in this state.
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And so, its high command, facilities, colors, and shoulder insignia squared away, Camp Pendleton began molding the assault force that would descend upon that ugly, as-yet-nameless scab.
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I was careful not to come too close to the rug now, and when I felt the hot whiskey breath descend upon me like a cloud of foul air I reached out and grabbed the leg of a chair.
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- He had a terrible feeling of doom about to descend on all of them. (source)
- Some spoke of him in shrill curses-others whispered, with a look of guilt and terror, as if a nameless retribution were now to descend upon them-some tried, with hysterical evasiveness, to act as if nothing had happened. (source)
- If you hesitate, if you question, if you refuse, then the full fury of this cadre will descend upon you in terrible force, and together we will drive you out of this school in forty-eight hours. (source)
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I've always admired those reporters who can descend on an area, talk to key people, ask key questions, take samplings of opinions, and then set down an orderly report very like a road map.
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A horde of demons had tried to descend upon the City at that moment, but the power of the weird held them back.
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Silence descended on the murmuring crowd
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A sense of complete helplessness had descended upon him.
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She knew that she and Frank were already in the Yankees' black books, because of Tony, and disaster might descend on them at any hour.
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"And at last the darkness of the night descended and softly kissed the surface of the watery grave and the only sound was the lonely rustle of the ancient trees," I wrote as I penned the final line.
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A blight seemed to have descended on her.
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At the moment they vanished they were everywhere, the cool benediction of the night descended, the stars sparkled, and the whole universe was a hill.
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The gainer, the inheritor of rewards, since it will now descend upon the morganatic wife of-- Shall I say that too?
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- I felt a fearful weariness descend upon me. (source)
- The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her from a plump active little woman with a neatly-turned foot and ankle into something as vast and august as a natural phenomenon. (source)
- THE grey warm evening of August had descended upon the city and a mild warm air, a memory of summer, circulated in the streets. (source)
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Absolutely between ourselves I should not be surprised to see the red hat of a cardinal descend upon my unworthy head within the next eight months.
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An eddying murmur filled my ears, and a strange, dumb confusedness descended on my mind.
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This may seem like a ponderous weight of wisdom to descend upon the soul of a young woman of twenty-eight—perhaps more wisdom than the Holy Ghost is usually pleased to vouchsafe to any woman.
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- She felt a sudden safeness descend upon her, and for an hour or so her mind was at rest. (source)
- When one grows older, the power, usually, departs, but while it lasts it may descend upon a man at any moment. (source)
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The storm of rain and wind descended upon them towards eight o'clock.
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But my clemency is always ready to descend upon the vanquished.
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The young girls passed hours in listening to it, the vocal mothers were upset by it, brains were busy, punishments descended in showers.
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In that grand order of battle in which Captain Ahab would probably marshal his forces to descend on the whales, these three headsmen were as captains of companies.
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At that crisis, a sudden inspiration descended on me; I was moved to rise and denounce Jabez Branderham as the sinner of the sin that no Christian need pardon.
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The influence for all good, which she came to exercise over me at a later time, begins already to descend upon my breast.
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- A being was commissioned to arrest the fatal hand of death about to descend on him. (source)
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At half-past nine he rose and went to the City, and she was almost free till dinner-time, to make visitations in the kitchen and to scold the servants; to drive abroad and descend upon the tradesmen, who were prodigiously respectful; to leave her cards and her papa's at the great glum respectable houses of their City friends; or to sit alone in the large drawing-room, expecting visitors; and working at a huge piece of worsted by the fire, on the sofa, hard by the great Iphigenia clock,…
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Suddenly a heavy storm of rain descended.
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"Come on, Alicia!" yelled Lee into the silence that had descended on the crowd.
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A brief silence descended and Johann thought the time had come.
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This was the second time this morning that her uncle's wrath had descended on her head.
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The search for him resumed, and the police descended again on the Watanabes.
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Now and then a cold shiver descended on his head and spread down his body.
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- "Yaa!" replied the thunderous crowd,— then silence descended from the sky and swallowed the noise. (source)
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He descended into a dream, and the Bird rose up over him.
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A deathly silence descended on Okonkwo's compound.
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As soon as the Stark boy starts north, Ser Forley and Ser Daven will descend on Riverrun.
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A new order is about to descend upon Alagaesia, and I would have you be a part of it.
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And if it goes the other way, he can descend on us while we are weakened.
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They do not descend upon hale and healthy animals.
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- But they had been quick enough to descend on Castle Black for the wedding. (source)
- He thinks your uncle will descend on them and kill them all, as Urron did. (source)
- "Any chance we might convince the Dornishmen to descend on the Marches?" asked Tyrion. (source)
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Soon, winter would descend on Shadbagh, winter and its icicles and weeklong snowdrifts and winds that cracked the skin on the back of hands in a minute flat.
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Harry, Ron and Hermione had barely taken their seats when Neville, Dean, Fred, George and Ginny descended upon them.
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Armco representatives would descend on towns like Jackson and promise (truthfully) a better life for those willing to move north and work in the mills.
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Once a semblance of silence had descended, I got on the public comm channel, which had the same effect as turning on a giant PA system.
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Those in violation of the decree, anyone whose statue was not in pristine condition, found themselves hauled off to Blaxik, where--in a bit of irony Redd found pleasing--they were forced to make the statues until death descended upon them.
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Every one of those bees could have descended on me like a flock of angels and stung me till I died, and it wouldn't have been the worst thing to happen.
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SOMETIMES SOMEONE from the press would descend on Saeed and Nadia's camp or work site, but more often denizens would themselves document and post and comment online upon what was going on.
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Saeed was grateful for Nadia's presence, for the way in which she altered the silences that descended on the apartment, not necessarily filling them with words, but making them less bleak in their muteness.
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- The boy began climbing and descending the many stairways of the palace, keeping his eyes fixed on the spoon.† (source)
- Then there would be footsteps descending; then silence, a black outline looming outside the closed oblong of my bedroom door.† (source)
- The challenge that morning was to descend in silence—not just Edgar, but Edgar and Almondine together.† (source)
- I explained to her that I lived an hour away from Hollywood; as for famous people, I thought of telling her that my father is directly descended from the Prophet Muhammad, but I knew that wasn't the kind of famous person she was inquiring about.† (source)
- As it rose to its highest point, a great waning crescent moon descended slowly in the sky behind it.† (source)
- Slipping on my sneakers, I opened the bedroom door and walked down the hallway to descend the stairs.† (source)
- Descending one flight, he exited the belfry and traversed the hall to the main stair, as was his habit.† (source)
- I was so caught up in the financial aspects of Mamaw's death and spending time with relatives I hadn't seen in months that I didn't realize Mom was slowly descending to the same place she'd traveled after Papaw's death.† (source)
- By the time I got to Columbine, hundreds of desperate parents and relatives, police officers, bomb squads, reporters, and onlookers had already descended on the area around the school, and complete pandemonium reigned.† (source)
- Before you descend into the Underworld, you must go to Santa Monica.† (source)
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- The walls are made of stone, and the ceiling slopes, so I feel like I am descending deep into the heart of the earth.† (source)
- I descended to a level of savagery I never imagined possible.† (source)
- As I left town, I watched the sun set and darkness descend across the county landscape as it had for centuries.† (source)
- The car looked like a normal people carrier from the outside, but when the rear passenger door was unlocked a ramp descended from the side and lowered to the ground.† (source)
- Near the bridge, as they were descending the steps, a barefoot man dangled dead from a crane, his ears cut off, his neck bent at the end of a rope.† (source)
- Seat belts, please," Teabing's pilot announced as the Hawker 731 descended into a gloomy morning drizzle.† (source)
- Then, with surprising speed, the Griever pushed itself back outside the shattered frame of the window and began descending toward the ground below.† (source)
- I find that descending too often into the hustle and bustle of the main school clouds my Inner Eye.† (source)
- The board slowed for a second, trying to climb, but then shivered and continued to descend.† (source)
- He started to descend the stairs but then he turned and leaned and kissed the child on the forehead.† (source)
- Once in a while a flock descends into one of the huge lindens on the grounds and seethes beneath its leaves.† (source)
- He slipped down into it, behind the coffin, and down and down and still further down, down to the tiny stone steps cut into the center of the hill, and those he descended until he reached the stone chamber.† (source)
- We pick up speed as we descend the hill.† (source)
- First, we descended from Hermes, and decelerated our orbital velocity so we could start falling properly.† (source)
- The city's population of fifty thousand was scattered about its sloping terrain in a descending hierarchy that closely followed the lay of the land.† (source)
- There was a gilded mirror on the wall, and we all turned to take one last peek as we descended.† (source)
- The four tall windows, frosted with vapor from the steam radiators, allowed a gray snowfall light to descend into the courtroom.† (source)
- It takes a long time, but a ruby-throated hummingbird finally descends and eats from the tip of my unmoving, sweetened index finger.† (source)
- There was a figure getting into the truck, and Mae knew it was Mercer, as the cameras descended upon him.† (source)
- Everything was arranged in descending steps.† (source)
- Rose descended the stairs, carrying the kerosene lamp, which she set on the newel post at the bottom.† (source)
- On Saturday, November 15, only a few weeks after the attack, hundreds and hundreds of people (it was hard to count, as people came and went all afternoon) descended on the Marriot Grand Ballroom for a silent auction that included over five hundred items.† (source)
- Barb Wiggin had difficulty locating them in the "pillar of light," while simultaneously illuminating the Descending Angel, Owen Meany.† (source)
- There is no dying, there is only an ascending or a descending, a moving on to other planes.† (source)
- She stepped closer to the archway and froze when she saw the steps that descended into the murky darkness.† (source)
- I keep running until I reach the stairs and I descend them as fast as I can, taking two at a time.† (source)
- I grabbed the top of it and followed, descending hand over hand until it stopped at a metal floor, where she was waiting.† (source)
- With one arm around each man's shoulders, Ned managed to descend the steep tower steps and hobble across the bailey.† (source)
- Usually it kicks off in 12 and then goes in descending district order to 1, followed by the Capitol.† (source)
- Blackness descends and I cross her floor from memory and reach the window.† (source)
- I climb the ladder up to the house, over worn wood shaped to the hands that ascend and descend every day.† (source)
- A remarkably foul odor hung in the air, and the passage descended to a lonely black door with an iron padlock.† (source)
- But how she would descend the slope was another matter, and then, when she was down among the trees, would she have the sense to chart a course for herself, and keep to it?† (source)
- The mother's feet, plump and polite, descended like white pigeons from the sea of pillow, across the linoleum roses, down down the wooden stairs, over the chalk hopscotch squares, 5, 6, 7, blue sky.† (source)
- She lit up as she descended the stairs to the hall, knowing that she would not have dared had her father been at home.† (source)
- In fact, there are some theories that posit that all squirrels are descended from the flying squirrel.† (source)
- He felt as if he had been racing blindfolded to the edge of a cliff and had been grabbed and saved just as he was about to descend into a pit from which there was no escape.† (source)
- Mercifully, the sun was descending toward the horizon.† (source)
- With their backs to my mother as she descended were a group of adults—very official and frantic-looking—wearing black and navy with cool slants to their hats and boots.† (source)
- Watching her made him feel dizzy, off balance, so he tore his gaze away and watched the numbers above the doors descend.† (source)
- Closing my eyes as the car descends.† (source)
- By a curious coincidence, "None at all" is exactly how much suspicion the ape-descendant Arthur Dent had that one of his closest friends was not descended from an ape, but was in fact from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse and not from Guildford as he usually claimed.† (source)
- But apparently our little corporate-image Santa Claus is not descended from a Turkish saint, he is a shadow of San D'Klass, the third king of the Frond Elfin dynasty.† (source)
- That night a numbing chill descended on the ghetto.† (source)
- And we descend into soft black.† (source)
- And in between, I've been in a kind of bardo state, flying around in a gray roar, climbing with drop-spattered windows to laddered sunlight, descending to rainclouds and rain and escalators down and down to a tumble of faces in baggage claim, eerie kind of afterlife, the space between earth and not-earth, world and not-world, highly polished floors and glass-roof cathedral echoes and the whole anonymous concourse glow, a mass identity I don't want to be a part of and indeed am not a part of† (source)
- All of us, for example, are descended at some point from huntergatherers, and many hunter-gatherers, by all accounts, had a pretty leisurely life.† (source)
- He has descended into depression and a life of glue sniffing.† (source)
- I have to squeeze my eyes shut against the thought, and against the thought of dozens of glittering blades descending on her.† (source)
- Kim's up to the part of Operation Distraction, when Brooke Vega and a dozen assorted punks descended upon the hospital.† (source)
- Another thing I noticed—and I could see it tied in—was the big hush that would descend around certain veterans when they went off on "courses"—which even we knew had to do with becoming carers.† (source)
- A sense of dread descended on me.† (source)
- As the Kull's arm descended, a slim steel blade suddenly sprouted from his chest.† (source)
- The road descended into the outskirts of town, turning northwest past the junior college and the tennis courts, then past Chautauqua Park, where the picnic tables were spread with sheets of colored plastic and where picnickers sat in lawn chairs and listened to the high school band playing Sousa marches under the band shell.† (source)
- His father must have sensed his presence, however, because he began to descend the steps, blocking out part of the brightness that spilled in from the cellar outside the recreation room.† (source)
- Whispers of morning, whispers of night, children without faces tormenting with a word, descending like a torrent of leaves, like the blaze of dawn.† (source)
- The Great Sadness had descended and in differing degrees cloaked everyone whose lives had touched Missy's.† (source)
- A chopper that had been cycling above started to descend and move toward the crowd.† (source)
- His environment had left its unlikable marks on him, but in the ante bellum South, I could have found myself at the mercy of someone much worse—could have been descended from someone much worse.† (source)
- The darkness seemed to descend over her, choking her, weighing her down.† (source)
- The Three Score and Ten will not let me descend into the Cleft beyond the basilica.† (source)
- I descend the stairs and step from the gutter up onto the curb.† (source)
- As we waited in silence, I learned what people mean when they describe the swarm of locusts that descends just before they faint.† (source)
- She shrugged easily "But I've never had things descend to that level.† (source)
- But when I descended the wooden stairs carrying us from the platform, with Mr. Itchoda one step behind me, I came upon such a shock that for a time I forgot everything else.† (source)
- We began to descend towards the coast, the roadside growing more populous, the smell of the ocean in the air.† (source)
- Another legend claims that we descended from wolves — and that the wolves are our brothers still.† (source)
- It's one of the things she's always hated about life here: these chilly, abbreviated days of early winter, darkness descending mere hours after noon.† (source)
- In running from her past, Mommy has created her own nation, a rainbow coalition that descends on her house every Christmas and Thanksgiving and sleeps everywhere-on the floor, on rugs, in shifts; sleeping double, triple to a bed, "two up, three down," just like old times.† (source)
- As the balloon kept descending, I tried to calculate how fast we'd need to jump out of the basket and run for our lives.† (source)
- Why should someone try to compare modern fishermen with these legendary heroes, many of whom were descended from gods?† (source)
- Nathaniel descended a circular staircase to the basement, then walked down a long hall and into a carpeted space with one belowground window that threw scant light into the room.† (source)
- Though that too sounded odd, to a Radchaai who knew what it meant for a Tanmind stationer to descend to the Underworld and return.† (source)
- He began to count the steps as he descended, but quickly gave up, distracted by the decorations on the walls, the ceiling and even the floor.† (source)
- The widows were busy washing sheets and freezing pies for the hundreds of tourists descending on the town to witness Living History.† (source)
- The train passed over the fair's fence, then descended to the terminal at the rear of the Transportation Building.† (source)
- A medical team descended on me and rushed me into the back, gave me a shot in each butt cheek, and put an IV in each arm.† (source)
- "Poisonwood," she added flatly, emphasizing the descending syllables as if she were equally tired of all three.† (source)
- The elevator clashed into life and began to descend with the screaming, raving thing penned up inside.† (source)
- I struggled to push him back and to keep the dark curtain of unconsciousness from descending over me.† (source)
- The sun descending in the west.† (source)
- A cloud of helplessness descended over me.† (source)
- When she saw the strange monk descending from the pulpit of St. Mary's Church, she felt as if she were dreaming.† (source)
- Scientists wanted to grow cellular clones—lines of cells descended from individual cells—so they could harness those unique traits.† (source)
- And a hush descended like that gray cloud until all the sound was collected in one echoing persistent cough.† (source)
- She descended on Clary with a hug that nearly overbalanced her.† (source)
- The path descends a little here.† (source)
- To hear him talk, you'd have thought he'd descended from generations of Ole Miss Rebels.† (source)
- The ride became rocky as Parker descended through the clouds, and it occurred to Ryan that they were on the leading edge of the same storm he'd endured the night before.† (source)
- As the plane was descending toward Qingdao, Mary said, "Li, take a deep breath and enjoy your family."† (source)
- Hence, she is also important in Babylonian, Assyrian, Canaanite, Hebrew, and Ugaritic myths, which are all descended from the Sumerian.† (source)
- To Nicolas, Amanda's hostility was like a pestilence that had descended between them.† (source)
- You had to descend farther to reach the front door.† (source)
- He promptly left Congo—which recently descended once again into civil war—and hopes to reunite with his family, either in the U.S. or Europe.† (source)
- The earth rumbled beneath its mighty footsteps as nearly a ton of twisting steel and raging porcelain descended upon our heroes.† (source)
- The men spurred their horses and descended into town.† (source)
- Two days later they descended to the luminous plain where the joyful town of Valledupar was located.† (source)
- How did I know that someday-at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere-the bell jar, with its stifling distortions, wouldn't descend again?† (source)
- I have no doubt he did—I mean, after all, who wouldn't have loved five brothers and sisters descending upon your house and food supply on a regular basis?† (source)
- An air car descends near us and disgorges more Officials.† (source)
- Downward came the bird, lazily looping through the haze, gray in gray descending, gliding, a summer sledder down a slope of sunsmoke.† (source)
- The factory crawler turned, began to descend.† (source)
- A calmness descended over Virgil Byrnes, and when I think back, it was the most chilling part of the whole incident.† (source)
- In the corner, a student, still in medical greens, was trying to read a magazine and not be noticed but as soon as the kids were tired of the machine, they descended on him, pulling at his magazine and pushing their hands into his pockets.† (source)
- But one time we climbed down, sliding on our bottoms, grabbing onto roots, descending into the underworld.† (source)
- I especially didn't want to think about the possibility that I was descended from one of the Nephilim.† (source)
- The hovering Mr. Curran descends, and we are led to the table where the necessary forms are signed and dated.† (source)
- Felix descended on him, slashing in every direction.† (source)
- It took little more than an hour to descend back to Base Camp.† (source)
- I thought of all the times when I was a small child and had watched the miners descend into the darkness.† (source)
- These are Veruca's new-found friends That she will meet as she descends, And this is the price she has to pay For going so very far astray.† (source)
- She turned one corner, then another, descending a single step to enter a more modern wing with pale turquoise walls.† (source)
- Pumper trucks kept arriving from other towns, the men descending heavily in their rubber boots and old-fashioned hats.† (source)
- Apollo Eight has circumnavigated the moon and descended to sixty-nine-point-eight miles over the lunar surface.† (source)
- I'd love to hear them confess: Who do they become when night descends, a cool puff of smoke, and vampires come out to party?† (source)
- Our line of sight chooses an area of concentrated brightness and, focusing there, silently descends to it-a sea of neon colors.† (source)
- The engines' pitch changed while the helicopter banked and descended into the mouth of a small side canyon.† (source)
- She could break him: for, to match her will, he would be compelled to descend to stratagems far beneath him.† (source)
- I can smell them as I descend.† (source)
- The Buffalo descended, and the town of Bumba appeared, a rotting tropical port spread out along the Congo River.† (source)
- I wondered if she could hear the hum of the überconsciousness, the superorganism who kept this from descending into chaos.† (source)
- I'll take witnesses from here and from Sounis and Attolia as well, and when it is gone, Eddis's throne will descend in the same way as the thrones of other countries.† (source)
- I descend the final flight of stairs (couldn't risk waiting for the elevators in case the Finnish brigade suddenly turned up), then pause to catch my breath.† (source)
- Her children would have descended upon the beautiful house and stripped it of all that was valuable and sold the rest to Mattie.† (source)
- Nor did Perry, descending the post-office steps with the Mexican box balanced on a shoulder, observe the prowling car and the policemen in it.† (source)
- "Some other time," Inigo said, making another, feeling quite bright about the whole thing, sensing the pleasure in having Fezzik visibly relax as they descended, so he smiled and clapped Fezzik on his great shoulder for the good fellow he was.† (source)
- The spoon descended and a hot—but not burning—swallow poured in.† (source)
- Both of them descend into big, howling laughs.† (source)
- SIX DAYS LATER responsibility descended upon Roscoe Brown with a weight far beyond anything he had ever felt.† (source)
- She disappeared behind a white swinging door, and we could hear the uneven flap of her footsteps as she descended into the basement.† (source)
- In memory she descended the hill, coming down into the shadows with each step, looking back to the heights and the light.† (source)
- I grab a ropy branch and clutch it while I try to descend, but the mud slips under my feet and I end up hauling myself back up.† (source)
- More Americans descended on the enemy's flanks and Mawhood and his redcoats were soon in full flight toward Trenton.† (source)
- I expect him to stop once we're in the stairwell, but he descends the entire way.† (source)
- They descended slowly, and when their feet reached the ground of the airfield, one of the men raised his rifle and aimed it at them.† (source)
- I didn't see Bailey descend to the floor, but I rolled over once and he was kicking and screaming too.† (source)
- When the plane descended toward Havana, Farmer stared intently out the window, making exclamations.† (source)
- All my birds leaving and my wastrel son and his wretched wife descending upon me.† (source)
- Yossarian left money in the old woman's lap — it was odd how many wrongs leaving money seemed to right — and strode out of the apartment, cursing Catch-22 vehemently as he descended the stairs, even though he knew there was no such thing.† (source)
- I am descended from a people who know there is a God with the same certainty that they know walking into a river will get them wet.† (source)
- I made up that we are descended from an ancestress who stubbed her toe and fell when running from a rapist.† (source)
- They get to descend from a heroic white witch, and we get the demon seed.† (source)
- "For God so loved the world that he gave his only son—" By then, two U.S. marshals had descended, hauling him out of his seat and dragging him up the alley, as the news cameras swiveled to follow the action.† (source)
- He sang them while accompanying himself on the accordion his grandfather gave him, the one who'd moved in after Misha's grandmother died and, according to Misha, her soul descended on the Summer Gardens in St. Petersburg in the form of a flock of geese.† (source)
- They descended the steps to the beach where the dark ship bobbed on the water.† (source)
- Someone brought a candle, and as blackness descended around us, its small, flickering light added to the surrealism of the scene.† (source)
- At my mother's name, an embarrassed quiet descends.† (source)
- I watched a woman emerge from a cell on the top tier and descend the stairs on the opposite side of the unit.† (source)
- As the elevator descended, she rode the entire thirty floors just blinking her eyes and looking straight ahead.† (source)
- She had been on the point of going into the hotel corridor to kick in her neighbours' door when silence descended over the room.† (source)
- JFK takes liberties for granted, even as generation after generation of children descended from slaves have never known such opportunities.† (source)
- At the end of an hour they had gone a mile, or maybe a little more, and had descended many flights of stairs.† (source)
- I saw it as a dark, amorphous cloud that would descend from above and enclose us forever.† (source)
- Before many months had passed, no one on Watership knew or particularly cared to know whether he himself or his mate was descended from one or two Efrafan parents or from none at all.† (source)
- In the distance they could see the descending form of the Winter King, who was moving to join the fray.† (source)
- They lock up; descend the smooth and silent elevator to the street.† (source)
- Shock, relief, and mortification all descended upon me at once, and with such force that I burst into tears.† (source)
- She turned around when Mr. Tuffett descended to brass tacks: In his time he had come across all varieties of students, he said, some of which carried pistols to school, but never in his experience had he witnessed such an act of depravity as greeted him when he came up the front walk this morning.† (source)
- Tom glanced over and saw the boy's wide eyes looking back at the beasts now descending on the village.† (source)
- As he observed Sergeant Watson descending, Colonel Johnson calculated he could risk a larger force and grabbed a field telephone.† (source)
- The floor slanted downward, and as they walked, Vlad felt like they were descending deep into the earth.† (source)
- She took the stairs behind the faux panel in the hallway, descended a level, and cut through the pool area with its black-bottomed lagoon and tropical greenery.† (source)
- With Baig, Mortenson had stood on a meadow high above Zuudkhan, watching a dust cloud descend from the Irshad Pass.† (source)
- At that moment, a blue-clad figure flies with familiar grace out of the mists, silver braid shining, descending upon Red Platoon like a falling star.† (source)
- Others began to descend on the boys, but instead of pulling them apart, they darted between the trees, scooping items into their arms.† (source)
- Now the movement has descended to the municipal level, with a town here or there passing an English-only ordinance, which has little effect.† (source)
- The conversion of potential energy to kinetic energy is what drives the roller coaster, and all of the kinetic energy you need for the ride is present once the coaster descends the first hill...Once you're underway, different types of wheels help keep the ride smooth.† (source)
- At first, of course, she laughingly refused, but then a giant hand descended from the sky and shoved her to her knees.† (source)
- Now she was descended from two pioneer fam'lies, the Toys and the Willises both.† (source)
- The prairie here is huge but above it the hugeness of this ominous grey mass ready to descend is frightening.† (source)
- She descended to the center of the web and there she began to cut some of her lines.† (source)
- Three levels underground I pushed upon a heavy metal door marked "Danger" and descended into a noisy, dimly lit room.† (source)
- The gray-haired switchboard operator gave a final nod, descended the steps and walked rapidly down the block.† (source)
- Reporters had descended on New Haven like a plague of flies, gobbling up and spitting out every available detail.† (source)
- They parked the van in the center of the main street, beneath the hovering helicopter, and signaled for it to descend with the ladder.† (source)
- They preferred that the country descend into civil war rather than have majority rule by peaceful means.† (source)
- In a few minutes they would descend into the stadium.† (source)
- Obviously a madre patria, descended of purebred Spaniards, he carried himself with a cocky, worldly-wise confidence.† (source)
- The characteristic had surfaced, to a greater or lesser degree, in nearly every horse to descend from his great-grandsire, Hastings, a thousand-pound misanthrope for the ages.† (source)
- When a disgruntled servant informed Doña Zaida about the changes in her country house, she descended on the ranch in a fury and restored the villa to its former state.† (source)
- I could feel the helicopter start to descend toward the empty rooftop.† (source)
- Tomorrow we rise early to descend to the Seiser Alpe, and I'm so tired!† (source)
- The sun was descending to the peaks in the west.† (source)
- She led the way down the steps they had already descended, and along another corridor and so finally out into the open air.† (source)
- The conversion of potential energy to kinetic energy is what drives the roller coaster, and all of the kinetic energy you need for the ride is present once the coaster descends the first hill...Once you're underway, different types of wheels help keep the ride smooth.† (source)
- The last thing I heard before the death spirits descended on us was that Snow Flower was pregnant again.† (source)
- She was across the barn and through the door by the time Dart began to descend the stairs.† (source)
- Oscar eased Stinky forward while Cristian pressed his joystick forward, causing the robot to descend.† (source)
- With the runway now clear, the tower told the pilot he was free to descend to 1,500 feet, instructing him to listen to radar advisories to aid his instrument approach in the rainy, foggy weather.† (source)
- On our side the level ground descended in a sharp, steep bank to the water; on the other stood a line of low, reddish cliffs.† (source)
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