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Sentences ending with descend

This settled, he put on his belt and boots and prepared to descend. [13]
The litter stopped, and Argutis helped her to descend. [10]
So they set a great truss of straw on fire and threw it down the well, while we leaned on the curb and watched the glowing mass descend. [5]

Sentences containing descend two or more times

For years he had used this rope-ladder to get down to his boat, and often, when they were first married, Kathleen used to come and watch him descend, and sometimes, just at the very first, would descend also. [11]

More example sentences with the word descend in them

At last the youth encased his telescope, and turned to descend the hill to the town. [11]
Now his forehead would pucker into deep folds and his eyebrows were lifted, then his eyebrows would descend and deep wrinkles would crease his cheeks. [2]
But the boat would float on, and the boulder descend again, and then we could see that when we had been exactly above it, it must still have been twenty or thirty feet below the surface. [5]
I said these words did him extreme credit, but that he must not throw away the imperishable distinction of being the first man to descend an Alp per parachute, simply to save the feelings of some envious underlings. [5]
The stern Balbilla will at last descend from the lofty Olympus of her high-anti-mightiness and no longer disdain that immutable foundation-rock, the adoration of her faithful Verus. [10]
If you wish to see what abysses servility can descend, present yourself before a Baden-Baden shopkeeper in the character of a Russian prince. [5]
They might try to resist the law through him, but, if violence was shown, he would first kill Arrowhead, and then destruction would descend like a wind out of the north, darkness would swallow them, and their bones would cover the plains. [11]
I drew aside to let a stately train of beauty and of fashion descend, and saw it sweep through the hall, and enter the drawing-rooms, until it was lost in a sea of shifting color. [4]
A dread seemed to descend upon him and deaden his natural buoyancy. [11]
But when trying to descend the rope-ladder from the high ship into the skiff in which sailors had rowed from the land, he made a misstep with his stiff leg and fell into the boat. [10]
One has only to cross the mountains of New South Wales and descend into the westward-lying regions to find that he has left the choice climate behind him, and found a new one of a quite different character. [5]
They could see the man descend and gather the feather, then he plunged deeper still and they lost sight of him. [11]
You descend beneath the level of human understanding by madly wallowing in the mire; and the more clearly you are convinced that you have seized the truth, the more utterly you are involved in the toils of a miserable delusion. [10]
They will find that when I am ready for them my hand will descend upon them, in their secret places, as unerringly as the hand of fate. [5]
And she hoped that none of her scholars would ever descend to that base competition to outdo one's neighbours, so characteristic of the country to-day. [9]
It is notorious that men by themselves at lunch or dinner usually shun grave topics and indulge in persiflage, and even descend to talk about wine and the made dishes. [4]
I only know that I descend to the sea there by broad interior flights of steps, which lead through galleries and corridors, and high, vaulted passages, whence extend apartments and caves far reaching into the solid rock. [4]
He well knew that Colonel Carvel would not descend to ask an inferior concerning the conduct of a superior. [9]
The misty sky still seemed to descend evenly and imperceptibly toward the earth, the air was still, warm, and silent. [2]
They are the souls of the thousands whom grim death has snatched away, laden with the curse of the Hebrew, unburied, unshielded from corruption, to descend the rounds of the ladder leading to the eternal world. [10]
We were not sorry, towards sunset, to descend along the Elk River towards Cranberry Forge. [4]
You descend into some of the streets by long, deep stairways; and in the strong moonlight, last night, these were very picturesque. [5]
Single tones had reached his ears, but he did not feel in the mood to descend the stairs. [10]
But Edward, too polite to descend to personalities, was silent.... [9]
And the first person she saw descend, after Hugh, was Mrs. Kame. [9]
I persuaded John Paul to descend with me. [9]
In this corner of the West was such a revival as none could remember--not even those who had been to camp meetings in the East in their youth, and had seen the Spirit descend upon hundreds and draw them to the anxious seat. [11]
The maternal gift of song would certainly descend to him, and perhaps it was allotted to the Emperor's son to amaze his generation by the presence of hero and singer in one person, like a second King David. [10]
Seeing the glimmer of a light beyond, he went up a few steps, and came face to face with Elise, who, candle in hand, was about to descend the stairs again. [11]
But death, while it hovered over him, did not descend, for the rider waited for the twitching fingers, the downward flash of hand that did not come. [13]
But my clemency is always ready to descend upon the vanquished. [2]
It was then I began to descend toward the valley of disappointment and sorrow; it was then I cast my little bark upon a mysterious ocean of wedlock, with him who then smiled and caressed me, but, alas! [5]
It would do her good to descend to the lowest ranks and measure her own better fate by their misery. [10]
As if we had so many superfluous hours at our disposal ere we descend into Hades. [10]
Already two attempts had been made to descend, but they had not been successful. [11]
No matters of great consequence have come to our ears, save that it is thought your navy may descend on Louisburg; that Ticonderoga is also to be set upon, and Quebec to be besieged in the coming summer. [11]
And to descend from history down to my own poor chronicle, Mr. Cooke's railroad case, my first experience at the bar of any gravity or magnitude, had tied to it a string of consequences then far beyond my guessing. [9]
We descend, skirting for some distance the monastery walls, over which patches of ivy hang like green shawls. [4]
We climbed 1,000 feet higher, then began to descend, and presently got down to Darjeeling, which is 6,000 feet above the level of the Plains. [5]
It is easy enough to decide at night to go next day; but in the morning, when the soft sunshine comes in at the window, and when we descend and walk in the garden, all our good intentions vanish. [4]
From them did descend the writer of this history. [4]
Now we will descend into the crypt, under the grand altar of Milan Cathedral, and receive an impressive sermon from lips that have been silent and hands that have been gestureless for three hundred years. [5]
But should she descend from the height which she has hitherto occupied--would you still be ready--" "With me," he interrupted quietly, "what she does or does not do matters nothing. [10]
Allow me to descend from my four-legged cothurnus, for at present you are forced to look up to me, and from all I have heard of your talents from Pontius, nothing can be more absolutely the reverse of what it ought to be. [10]
It contains the coarsest and most uneatable of fish, such as the cat-fish and such genus, and as you descend, its banks are occupied with the fetid alligator, while the panther basks at its edge in the cane-brakes, almost impervious to man. [5]
He had been called to the side of Mr. Clay, in his last moments, in order that the genius of "popular sovereignty" might duly descend from the dying man and settle upon him, the living and most worthy successor. [7]
Faith, but you are a lucky dog," said my Lord, shaking his head in mock dolefulness; "for there is no man in London, in the world, for whom she would descend a flight of steps, save you. [9]
When the steamer approaches, a band of young ladies in military ranks, clad in light marching costume, each with a broom in place of a musket, descend to the landing and delight the spectators with their warlike manoeuvres. [4]
In the Chinese annals it is said, "Music hath the power of making heaven descend upon earth. [1]
As she was about to leave the room to descend the stairs, there came a knock at the door. [11]
We descend through a village, twisting about in its crooked streets. [4]
You can descend a staircase here a hundred and fifty feet down, and stand at the edge of the water. [5]

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