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    1. The glaciers descend, grinding up all rocks and mountains in their path, remineralizing the soil


    2. Prince Omar offers his hand to help him descend, sidles over to Ahmed and takes his arm


    3. On their first orbit within landing distance of their old site, they did not descend


    4. “My son, if you receive my words, and store my commands within you, inclining your ear to wisdom, and applying your mind to reason; if you appeal to intelligence, and lift up your voice to reason; if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures – then will you understand reverence for the Lord, and will discover the knowledge of God; for the Lord gives wisdom, out of His mouth comes knowledge and reason; He has help in store for the upright, He is a shield to those who walk honestly; He guards the paths of justice, and protects the way of His pious ones; then will you understand rectitude and justice, and will keep to every good course; for when wisdom finds a welcome within you, and knowledge becomes a pleasure to you, discretion will watch over you, reason will guard you – saving you from the way of evil men, from men who use perverse speech; who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in ways of darkness; who delight in doing evil, exult in wanton wickedness’ who are crooked in all their ways, and tortuous in their paths – saving you from the wife of another, from the adulteress who plies you with smooth words, who forsakes the companion of her youth, and forgets her pledge to God; for her paths lead down to death, and her tracks descend to the Shades; none who go to her come back again, or reach the paths of life – helping you to walk in the way of good men, and to keep to the paths of the righteous; for the upright will live in the land, and the honest will remain in it; while the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the faithless will be rooted out of it


    5. Barely an hour later, they crested a large mountain and Jake started to descend


    6. Half an hour or so out of Prinnish, we descend into the plan of the river valley and I see the town of Gloster in the distance


    7. ‘What do you think, Tilly?’ I asked as we descend the stairs again


    8. Unfortunately, these Scathers were trained very well; they regrouped quickly and held off the second attack giving the main troops time to descend


    9. Allcock stood on the platform as fellow travelers disembarked, some having reached their destination, and watched the hawkers descend on them, extolling the best hotels and restaurants, the finest tours of the city, the most affordable saloons, the shows, the gambling, and on and on


    10. As the big blue and yellow flailing brushes descend on the car, I pat Sam’s head, she’s not too sure about this bit and cowers down on the seat

    11. Harry expected the storm to descend any day now


    12. In order to descend, he would have to turn the slightest bump into a handhold


    13. The trail started to descend,


    14. (After walking a long ways)… I came to an opening where the country seemed to descend to the west; and due east; and the country appeared so fresh, so green, so flourishing, everything being in a constant verdure or flourish of spring that it looked like a planted garden


    15. If he was to have any rest, her husband knew he must once more descend into the garden


    16. For poised above the entry were five iron gates ready to descend at the slightest sign of trouble


    17. expected his captor’s hand to descend on him at any


    18. sense of optimism seemed to descend over the group


    19. fall, Jean realised that he needed to descend rapidly or


    20. that two beauties descend from heaven on the same day

    21. When they reached the cliffs, they forced the girls to descend before them


    22. descend and tell the officer that he was my professor


    23. But when land was considered as the means, not of subsistence merely, but of power and protection, it was thought better that it should descend undivided to one


    24. That the power, and consequently the security of the monarchy, may not be weakened by division, it must descend entire to one of the children


    25. descend the cliff by way of metal steps along the side


    26. When he reached the roof and looked out over the city he felt a stillness descend over him


    27. Minor attacks from small bands were common enough, but never before had the ern been able to form such an army in the east as the one that were preparing to descend upon Saparen


    28. But as the shuttle was on the brink of leaving the atmosphere, it started to descend


    29. “Quick I’m going to open three cans of apricot jam and throw them down the trench when these shit house flies descend on them shovel your grub down before they get back


    30. But the Blessed God will descend, teaching that His death shall bring the captive/despairing hope/rest

    31. “How dare you turn up dressed that way I’ve a good mind to have you slung in a cell and brought up on charges? Well what have you got to say in your defence and it had better be good?” I could feel the black mood begin to descend on me but I thought careful you could be shot for clouting a fucking wind bag like this Captain so I said


    32. Since grandparents tend to be smart people, I waited for the wisdom of the ages to descend and provide me with some guidance


    33. The Spaceguard monitor would recommend the necessary upgrade; in the meantime a missile was about to descend


    34. They moved at the same time, him jumping from his seat and running to the stairs to descend to her level, her moving hurriedly across the stage, dress trailing behind her, to reach the steps and meet him on the descent


    35. Halon prayed that the bats would not descend into this tunnel and attack them, digging their tiny razor sharp claws into their skin, biting their faces


    36. It was as he began to descend that Gerrid noticed the other craft


    37. “For the shall descend from heaven , with the , and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first” (1 Thessalonians 4:16)


    38. He tossed the torch down into the pit, and she watched it descend, falling its way down until the light winked out of sight


    39. Lo, the angels shall ascend and descend Upon The Son of Man, without ceasing,


    40. As the reality of his thoughts came to him he started to race in the direction of the bank, looking for a safe place to descend into the canyon

    41. Gary felt a large hand descend on his shoulder


    42. Conal stood awkwardly, feeling a coldness descend on the office


    43. He had a rope dropped also, so that he could descend, but it missed, and he was marooned up there for six cold days before being rescued by some mountain climbers


    44. Within seconds he was already steadily climbing up the steep winding path that would take him between the two dominant mountain peaks, and afterwards probably on a shallow descend to the Land of God


    45. Up on the crane, the access door to the cab opened, the man emerged and began to descend its long ladder


    46. ” He began to descend the iron ladder, using it backwards, facing forward to keep his pistol steadily trained on Mike, his skinny friend and Comandante Cobra who sat glaring at him


    47. He needed a story to release officially that plugged all the holes, created no difficulties with Nicaragua and didn’t cause the American DEA to descend on Limon like a swarm of locust


    48. She had been half expecting to see a contingent of police descend upon the table and haul her away! Why he hadn’t asked more directly was beyond her, but relief was palatable


    49. With Colling carrying his suitcase and the canvas bag, and Elizabeth her own, they used the stairs to descend to the basement


    50. While passing through the doorway, a crushing weight seemed to descend upon her chest and burning pain shot through her shoulder and along her left arm












































    1. Sam’s ears burned with Kira’s bellowing as he escaped the office and descended the stairs


    2. He gazed out the window, picturing himself gently leaping from cloud to cloud as they descended Juneau


    3. In places down here this tunnel floor was wet, meaning that they had descended to a floor below dock level


    4. The heat of Noonsleep and Afternoonday was only a tiny bit blunted as they descended into the Gengee, but they had lost only a few hundred feet of altitude, just enough for him to notice


    5. If she was ever at all curious to find out if she really descended from Oliar, any downtown lab could tell her for an iron


    6. The jaw descended til it rested on the fore deck, crushing the rail to splinters, and there it paused before beginning the mayhem of their destruction


    7. His eyes locked on Kate as he descended the mountain


    8. Ashley was befuddled when she descended the mountain tears streaming down her face


    9. She then descended and dispatched many more


    10. Kate and Daniel descended the mountain quickly and went to the Hall

    11. ” Michael and Sally had descended


    12. The thicker, thicker reddening of Kortrax as he descended, the way the sky reddened around him


    13. ‘No … that is because she is descended from the last line of kings


    14. They descended the mountain and walked with an air of confidence that wasn’t present before


    15. A great sadness had descended on Dragons Hill


    16. The wild dragons came over the ridge, lined up and descended for their final run


    17. From out of the heights descended the biggest black they had ever seen


    18. “As a direct descended of one of the ‘First Ones’, it has been my family’s hearth for generations


    19. His ass hit the bull’s rump as he descended, causing both man and bull to bellow and the crowd to roar once again


    20. Somehow, somewhere along the way they had crossed a line and descended into insanity

    21. Naria could see that Boras had lost what little grip he had on his sanity and had descended into madness


    22. 25And the rain descended and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that


    23. 27And the rain descended and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that


    24. “This is the Swiss Alps,” she whispered and the chair descended


    25. descended and the forest disappeared


    26. When night’s shadow had finally descended, the


    27. and silence descended over the campsite


    28. It was still a week or so to go before the first round of tourists descended upon the village


    29. The pressure is rising again and Billy can feel bubbles of nervous energy floating in his gut, as if, having descended into the depths, he is rising too quickly


    30. ’ She said as they descended again

    31. She has descended from heaven into an alien mortal realm


    32. Allcock carried a letter-sized black leather pouch which he passed to Harry as they descended the stairs to the lobby


    33. and then descended the stairs to greet the newcomers


    34. Instantly they both ran up the step, the same way Jim had descended


    35. Light was quickly being swept away by the hovering dark cloud that had descended the valley, blanketing all that stood still in a heavy coat of snow


    36. arm on Roman’s shoulder as they descended the stairs


    37. Through a hitherto unnoticed doorway off the Long Gallery, Harry descended a little lighted flight of steps down into the Clive House undercroft


    38. As dusk descended they all stood on the front hanging decks and looked out toward the Tahoe


    39. Therefore, she descended the steps to check, since not knowing would keep her awake


    40. Her heart was beating fast as she swiftly descended the first six steps, she could hardly hear the music

    41. As he descended the stairs on his way out, the old


    42. I could see all the junk as we descended, the boxes of papers or


    43. “Look how they did that, it looks just like water out there,” he said as he descended the steps


    44. The remaining agents descended on Roman again, only to be met with a


    45. I descended a little on the side of that delicious vale, surveying it with a secret kind of pleasure, though mixed with my other afflicting thoughts, to think that this was all my own; that I was king and lord of all this country indefensibly, and had a right of possession; and if I could convey it, I might have it in inheritance as completely as any lord of a manor in England


    46. This plaza was still over seventeen hundred feet above the basin floor, pleasantly warm as the dusk descended, as comfortable as any dusk could be in Dos


    47. " The Holy Spirit descended on Jesus as a dove during his Baptism, and in his Farewill Discourse after the Last Supper Jesus promised to send the Holy Spirit to his disciples after his departure


    48. the time I’d descended to the bridge over the youthful


    49. " A wall of darkness descended as he closed the curtain


    50. It is from this Origin Race that we have all descended, for much like the Plague, they set out to conquer the universe














































    1. Johnny’s yell reverberated off the walls of the quickly descending elevator


    2. We don’t know what to expect down there,” Johnny said as he held out his hand protectively while peering into the darkness of the descending stairs


    3. descending into the dimpled earth,


    4. There were some reports he should go over instead of staring down between his feet at Sol and the trouble they were descending into


    5. The sun rose slowly and its rays flowed into the room through a large stained glass window high above sending colorful prisms of light dancing about the room in a descending pattern


    6. The captain held his head in his hands, staring thru the invisible table at the yellow star they were descending back down to


    7. that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,


    8. The sound of footsteps, hollow as though they are descending a staircase


    9. An eighth becomes a quarter, becomes a half, becomes the whole, or in a descending pattern of whole to half, to quarter, to eighth


    10. He said in a descending voice, “Let me tell you about love

    11. They couldn't have walked more than a few feet, after descending the deck steps


    12. After descending the steps to the cobblestone walk, she asked


    13. descending to the arch of her back until they found her bottom


    14. The girl descending the steps, and passed only inches from her


    15. It was at that moment, that Mandy, Jameson, and Titania came up behind the shouting couple, while at the top of the ramp, descending behind the Captain were Harold, Chloe, Hipolyta and little Hannah in her mother's arms


    16. two companions before descending towards the Abbey


    17. She recognized Luray's voice instinctively but took over a second to think that she might be in the starship descending over her


    18. He seemed unconcerned with her corporeal state or his lack of bonds, but stood staring at the world's sun -- a hazy blue ball rapidly descending to the horizon


    19. And though he still tied her far back in a descending tunnel when he went out alone, he’d leave a water skin close enough to reach with her mouth


    20. Descending in an elevator suggests that you are being grounded or coming back down to reality

    21. Just as the Elf was starting to wonder how deep they were descending, they reached an ancient ledge, an immense terrace or balcony, wrought from the living stone of the planet


    22. A long finger of air from a funnel cloud started descending out of the sky as Mars was dragged upwards


    23. Suddenly there was a dull thud and they were pressed into the partition momentarily as the car stopped descending


    24. I could feel the black depression descending on me again and the almost tangible hate that I felt for those shirking bastards stood at the bar waving their money and drinking


    25. frantically at the monsters descending from above


    26. He stumbled onwards with a heavy heart, brooding just like his Battle Angel, the two of them descending into endless circles of flames


    27. Carl had admitted hearing screams of men and women in the palace of Nordhel, late at night, which none of his immortal guards ever heard, so it must have been a sign that Carl too was descending into madness


    28. Now he drove home in silence, the car cutting through the early evening darkness, a chill descending upon the air


    29. alone that the scales descending on the counter made a merry sound, or


    30. ‘No, not yet,’ she said and burst into another round of hysteria, her tears rapidly descending down her cheeks

    31. Galeron flew back into space, arced into the center of the pit, and with arms and legs flailing, he began descending into the darkness


    32. sound of Cal’s horse descending the trail


    33. She studied Truman’s face for a clue, but he was captivated totally by the broad shouldered man descending the ladder


    34. They were descending deep down in the lower levels of the Disciplinarium, places that Ursempyre had always been loathe to visit for he was aware of the acts usually being performed in those chambers


    35. Amonas found out Hilderich’s unorthodox way of descending the steps to be quite efficient and fast, so he copied it and they were both making good progress, rapidly going down the steps


    36. It wasn’t night falling, but thousands of fruit bats descending on the law enforcement group


    37. They turned sharply onto a rapidly descending gravel road, came around a bend and stopped


    38. He snapped a couple of awesome photos of the sunset descending behind snow capped mountains


    39. He looked up in awe at a mixture of white and turquoise colours, and saw climbers descending with picks in hand


    40. Slowly descending in wide

    41. “And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, having the glory of God


    42. The smallest of snippets of all these “sounds?” seemed to be endlessly descending upon my inner mind, as snowflakes on a windless winter, seeming to tell me of things beyond that of even the most vivid of any imaginary guesses


    43. Every head in the room turned to see Libuse descending the staircase, her long blue dress trailing behind her


    44. and could see through the tiny slits created between leaf joins as a large band of curiously hungry looking flora descending on the


    45. was forward to sacrifice Isaac our progenitor, and shuddered not at the sight of his own paternal hand descending down with the


    46. ' And from there I went to another place, which was still more horrible than the former, and I saw a horrible thing, the great fire there which burnt and blazed, and the place was a chasm as far wide as the abyss, being full of great descending columns of fire, neither its extent or magnitude could I see, nor could I conjecture; Then I said: 'How fearful is the place and how awful to look on!' Then Uriel answered me, one of the holy angels who was with me, and said to me: 'Enoch, why have you such fear and intimidation?' And I answered: 'Because of this fearful place, and because of the spectacle of the pain


    47. but it does not prevent us from descending from the midst of it into the burden of Sheol


    48. Woe to you, you sinners, on account of the words of your mouth; And on account of the deeds of your hands which your godlessness has brought, in blazing flames burning worse than fire shall you burn; And now, know you that from the angels He will inquire as to your deeds in Heaven, from the sun and from the moon and from the stars in reference to your sins because on the Earth you execute judgement on the righteous, and He will summon to testify against you every cloud and mist and dew and rain; for they shall all be withheld because of you from descending on you, and they shall be mindful of your sins; And now give presents to the rain that it be not withheld from descending on you, nor yet the dew, when it has received gold and silver from you that it may descend; When the hoar-frost and snow with their chilliness, and all the snow-storms with all their plagues fall on you, in those days you shall not be able to stand before them


    49. If He closes the windows of Heaven, and withholds the rain and the dew from descending on the Earth on your account, what will you do then? And if He sends His anger on you because of your deeds, you cannot petition Him; for you spoke proud and insolent words against His righteousness; therefore you shall have no peace; And see you not the sailors of the ships, how their ships are tossed to and fro by the waves, and are shaken by the winds, and are in sore trouble? And therefore do they fear because all their goodly possessions go on the sea with them, and they have evil forebodings of heart that the sea will swallow them and they will perish in it


    50. 26 And the rain was still descending on the Earth, and it descended forty days and forty nights, and the waters prevailed greatly on the Earth; and all flesh that was on the Earth or in the waters died, whether men, animals, beasts, creeping things or birds of the air, and there only remained Noah and those who were with him in the Ark










































    1. when the still night descends on clouds of sleep,


    2. A glass wall descends between them


    3. descends about 50 yards and arrives at the


    4. descends steeply toward the sea


    5. He, Jesus states further that heaven and earth will pass before the law fails, this is scriptures -and yet we have the good theologians calling these very same statutes of scriptures, “Jewish Culture” not applicable today! Well then, let me not judge, but rather state that I do not wish to be part of this cesspool of vile crap which only descends into DIRE consequences!


    6. how do men say that the water which 9 descends in rain is from the sea? And the angel said, The water which descends in rain; This


    7. His body descends as the planet’s gravity takes over


    8. Darkness descends around me


    9. He has raised his arms towards the arc of its flight but when it descends no lower, he brings them to his side again


    10. 1 And when I had learnt all these things from the archangel he took and led me into a fourth 2 3 Heaven; And I saw a monotonous plain and in the middle of it a pool of water; And there were in it multitudes of birds of all kinds but not like those here on Earth; But I saw a crane as great as 4 great oxen; and all the birds were great beyond those in the world; and I asked the angel What 5 is the plain and what the pool and what the multitudes of birds around it? And the angel said Listen Baruch : The plain which contains in it the pool and other wonders is the place where the 6 souls of the righteous come when they hold converse living together in choirs; But the water is 7 that which the clouds receive and rain on the Earth and the fruits increase; And I said again to the angel of the Lord But what are these birds? And he said to me They are those which 8 continually sing praise to the Lord; And I said Lord and how do men say that the water which 9 descends in rain is from the sea? And the angel said The water which descends in rain; This also is (ascending) from the sea and from the waters on Earth; but that which stimulates the fruits is only from 10 the latter source

    11. Conversely, as a vessel descends a river or body of water the green buoys are on the right and red buoys are on the left


    12. heart centre during the intensive phase of the death process as it descends


    13. Legend has it that on the Chinese New Year, the Masked Dragon descends from the stars to dance along the rooftops


    14. Or when a hero or a villain descends into the absurd, it can be a cautionary tale


    15. An overwhelming peace descends upon him and in this holy state he remains fixed for many untold hours


    16. been said that the Christ offers Himself as a Sacrifice when He descends into


    17. "That one"—pointing to a copper-bound door opposite that which opened into the corridor—"leads to a corridor which runs to a stair that descends into the catacombs


    18. Eric stands up, Razor Mick is scary but Steve was in a completely different league, Eric had seen him put five tough bikers in the hospital because one of them owed him money, they learnt that five against one wasn't enough! Eric puts his jacket on and with a final look at a worried Carol and a smiling Dippa he opens the door and descends the stairs


    19. �Do you need some help on the stairs?� asks Steve to Curly Pete's retreating back as he descends the stairs carrying his friend as if he is no weight at all


    20. The door holds and satisfied, he runs down the stairs, as he descends he sees Dave and Steve waiting for him by the front door; �See if you can mend that catch will you so we can shut the door after us

    21. One descends, one sees no longer but one has seen


    22. make sense since the whole passage is about a specific event that happens when the Lord descends


    23. descends on the Earth with this army of the redeemed following him and destroys the armies of the


    24. We are told that a great city descends out of heaven from God, and that this is “the bride of Christ”


    25. The Greeks had a name for this energy which descends from the


    26. Glacia drives out of the complex and Victoria’s navigation system directs us through the city to a ramp that descends underground: the Main Throughway


    27. My Pretty Lotus descends from the heaven above to feed me with ice cream


    28. when Adonai descends onto the mountain


    29. He descends onto the Mount of Olives


    30. descends upon the mountains and speaks the commands for all to hear

    31. a beach, looking over some water, as the sun slowly descends and kisses the horizon


    32. If God descends at earlier time, the alternative faith will decrease in height


    33. A sudden idea is a balloon with a light bulb descends from Heaven to echo the Bible “Let there be light” and “God is light” an area in the brain shines from within


    34. God descends in the spirit of man under an empire of words


    35. Michael when the archangel descends the dragon back to his bottomless pit during the second coming


    36. The autumn harvest descends from heaven’s water which is pure and transparent


    37. God descends into the heart at the level at which we stand, begins to


    38. When Ulysses descends into Hades, Teireisias warns him carefully about what kind of danger awaits him when he reaches the island of Thrinacia


    39. But soon a life that is miserable and woeful will return, and the jinn’s damage will increase and its evil actions will prevail, until the spirit descends from a low grade to a still lower one, eventually reaching the lowest level of all


    40. Nevertheless, when Ulysses descends into Hades and speaks with Achilles, the most glorious hero of those times, Homer tells us that Achilles prefers even the most humble life of a country bumpkin over the glory given by dying in battle:

    41. Ulysses descends into Hades, with the help of the Sorceress Circe, and encounters there Teireisias, who predicts for him what the final solution to his conflict with Poseidon must be


    42. Every second Sunday she descends the mountain at sunset, the door-key in her pocket, and dances all night in some convivial _Gasthof_ in the town, coming up again at sunrise or later according to the amount of fun she was having


    43. ascends in an arch to the crown of the head, and then descends


    44. of the head and then descends in a straight line to the tip of


    45. I suppose I feel so because of the hush that descends on my soul when I get out of the close, restless house into that silent purity


    46. Remember the one where a thick mist descends from the mountains to cloak the land in fog?”


    47. Who but knows the inward peace that descends upon him who makes good resolutions and abides with him till he suddenly discovers they have all been broken? And what does the breaking of them matter, since it is their making that is so wholesome, so bracing to the soul, bringing with it moments of such extreme blessedness that he misses much who gives it up for fear he will not keep them? Such blessed moments of lifting up of the heart were Priscilla's as she sat in the churchyard waiting, invisibly surrounded by the most beautiful resolutions it is possible to imagine


    48. The figure is tall and imposing, with a billowing cloak that descends around its knees and eyes at could have slain the world and then again


    49. all the scenes shot of a particular script in hand descends down on the celluloid in a way he or


    50. freezing the waves as she descends the stairs





































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    Synonyms for "descend"

    descend fall settle come down go down condescend deign come derive decline deteriorate drop degenerate slip sink plunge dip alight come down on humble oneself stoop concede patronise patronize

    "descend" definitions

    move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way


    come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example


    do something that one considers to be below one's dignity


    come as if by falling