How To Use Descending In A Sentence

The snow relented and we were back to a rocky descending path.
Look, if you want a descending obligato, do it in the privacy of your own home away from us normal people.
If you hit him back, you'll only be descending to his level.
To neatly convey the choice of sizes in the case of such items as drawer pulls, the entire range might be lined up on the page in descending order.
And then there is the current reprehensible practice of offering only two minutes of news throughout the day, with five minutes condescendingly given at certain selected times.

Bena and her husband, a condescending, philandering doctor named Ted, arrive in Pueblo, Colo., in the midst of a drought, as well as the Depression. As The Pages Turn
Descending downstairs feels like entering a 1970s vision of decadence – all red and gold sequinned drapes, geometric railings and carpeted walls. 10 of the best music venues in London
To my knowledge, the patient relations office never discussed the matter with the surgeon -- I certainly never heard from him -- but I did receive a termination letter followed by a series of surprisingly rude and condescending letters from their risk management attorney after I pointed out that HIPPA promises patients will not be "penalized" for filing a privacy complaint. Genital Photos, HIPAA and the Media
And the Gospel of Mark would declare that on my im - mersion, the heavens opened and I saw "a spirit like a dove descending. The Gospel according to the Son
The draft reflects a similar innocence about how the media operate, while presuming to call shots and issue admonitions and injunctions in an often condescending way.
The sealed road wends its way across the stark Anti-Atlas and startling scenery appears after Igherm while descending the Akka Valley.
Troopergate was about a dangerous renegade brother-in-law; Walt Monegan was "insubordinate;" Charlie Gibson's interview was full of "gotcha" questions; Katie Couric was just mean and condescending; the shouts of "kill him" and "terrorist" at her rallies were the fault of Bill Ayers; Wardrobegate was the fault of the McCain Campaign; losing the election wasn't her fault, it was George W. Bush and the economy. Shannyn Moore: Gobble Gobblegate
When one departs from the deeds of a specific group into speaking of the vices of a whole race or a people, one is descending to demonization and engaging in pure propaganda.
Rounding out the top five smart cities are in descending rank, San Francisco, San Jose, Raleigh, N.C., and Boston. D.C. is America's smartest city. (We won't lord it over you.)
You say cable news squanders its resources by descending to tabloid sensationalism, personality cult shows and aping talk radio with high-testosterone shout shows.
There would be descending lockage the whole way, and the Lake Erie water would have continued in the Canal until it arrived at the Hudson!
The results are expressed in descending numerical order .
Blood then courses down through the descending aorta and comes back to the placenta where it gets oxygenated again by way of two umbilical arteries.
Some faculty members seem to express a condescending, at times almost disdainful, attitude.
Descending into the cellar of the palace, he taped a speech agreeing to free elections and other liberal measures.
Iwas walking through a wood of medium-sized pine trees when I noticed a pink shower descending from one. Times, Sunday Times
Senior management, when in the lift, should always make a point of condescending to speak. Blaikie's Guide to Modern Manners
You can also use it in conjunction with other intensifiers, such as descending sets.
The machine whirred to life and slowly began descending.
Huw Thornton: without being condescending, I'd like to applaud your clearsighted enunciation of the current problem: what is the solution? On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Professor Hutter's manner is extremely condescending.
We do not want to watch his ‘out of control’ yet suspiciously manipulative antics nor listen to his condescending, holier-than-thou judgments.
It was a vivid reminder that descending the water column in a submarine is an unnatural act.
This quotation comes from a conversation between the artist and Sarah Martin in the exhibition catalog, which is essential to understanding the intent of the show—excepting the philosophically naïve yet slightly condescending initial essay, "Re-imagining Reality" by Sîan Ede. An Eruption in Margate
Neither ascendeth hee in Sommer time more Northward then the foresaide place where we arriued, but was euen then descending to the South. The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253.
The music opens impressively with its main - nay, only - theme: three descending tones, blazed out maestoso in unison on the brass.
Scout's slightly condescending love becomes adoring pride. Times, Sunday Times
She paused, descending into some distant, nether reverie, and stared at the fish as if in labored communication with it. Fish Story
Lise was descending the steps, the look on her face disapproving as usual.
I have some 900 friends -- I don't like to use the term followers because it sounds very condescending; they are my friends and not followers -- on Facebook and Twitter. Rediff.com
The word “angel,” of course, is the generic name for all members of the heavenly host, as well as the name assigned to the lowest rank in the descending scale of spiritual creatures. The Angels and Us
The customer also added that the car seemed to run strange whenever she was descending a hill or steep grade.
They say the Black Mariah is an eraser descending. Black Mariah
The Cheshire cat's wide, puckish smile descending from the heavens as a crescent moon; the caterpillar puffing opiate smoke into the face of Alice and snobbishly asking, Who ... Archive 2009-10-01
It is logical, then, that the use of the descending tetrachord leads Weelkes to introduce the phrygian mode in a yet more obvious fashion in the following phrase, ‘Care they for me’.
In descending the Shire, we found concealed in the broad belt of papyrus round the lakelet Pamalombe, into which the river expands, A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
How can a message of brotherly love be condescending?
According to what we understand about the effects of priming, the opposite would be predicted - lower thresholds derived from the descending than the ascending order.
The plane started descending at a steep angle.
The growth of the trunk or stem of all exogenous plants, or those which increase in size on the outside of the stem, is brought about by the descent of certain formative tissue called cambium, elaborated by the leaves and descending between the old wood and the bark, where it is formed into alburnum or woody matter. Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.
Safety hooks are often fitted to winding ropes, and although the damage to life and property is greatly reduced by the use of them, they do not protect a descending cage from injury in a case of overwinding; besides which, they are almost useless when a wild run takes place, an accident which, strange to say, has already occurred many times after engines and boilers have been laid off for repairs. Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885
Thence I marched to Changachelling, first descending to the Tengling river, which divides the Catsuperri from the Molli ridge, and which I crossed. Himalayan Journals — Complete
The pirates seize the vessel and use it to attack a shoreside target, descending upon their target from the air.
She listened to their complaints and she offered some criticism of her own but she was never patronizing or condescending.
While we were descending the icefall, there were two very large collapses of seracs (luckily not near us), and many places in the icefall which have looked the same all season but were not recognizable upon descent.
If we think of the average 18th-century male as being a condescending misogynist, then this man confounds our expectations.
Month after month this process continued until new memories were gradually harder to come by -- descending on the bell-shaped curve until they stopped altogether. Andrew Grove - An interview with author
With only 10 slots, the shuffled deck consists of 20 groups of cards that alternate between ascending and descending card orders.
Where the adjectives and adverbs have two or more syllables, most of them are compared by the use of the adverbs _more_ and _most_, or, if the comparison be a descending one, by the use of _less_ and _least_; as, _beautiful, more beautiful, most beautiful_, and Practical Grammar and Composition
The Clinton campaign declared Senator Obama's speeches won't hide what it called his condescending views of small town America and speaking for the first time on the controversy, Senator McCain accused Senator Obama of elitism. CNN Transcript Apr 14, 2008
The entrance was by way of a flight of steps descending from the side-walk to what was properly the cellar of the building. COFFEE-HOUSES AND DOSS-HOUSES
The 9th of May, after another such an up-and-down course, ascending hills and descending into the twilight depths of deepening valleys, we came suddenly upon the Mukondokwa, and its narrow pent-up valley crowded with rank reedy grass, cane, and thorny bushes; and rugged tamarisk which grappled for existence with monster convolvuli, winding their coils around their trunks with such tenacity and strength that the tamarisk seemed grown but for their support. How I Found Livingstone
He explains things without condescending to his audience.
In descending order, the most common side effects observed during hyperbaric treatment are barotrauma (2% incidence), sinus squeeze, serous otitis, claustrophobia, reversible myopia, and new onset seizure (which occurs in 1-3 per 10,000 treatments) [8]. BioMed Central - Latest articles
Since morning, supporters of the Left, who have called another bandh, have been descending on Khammam. Land clash sets off tit-for-tat game- Left settles Nandigram scores with sack cry
Without them, an audience would be hard pressed to sympathize with Walter without their reactions descending into pity.
Darrow, on the other hand, was at times condescending and contemptuous in his treatment of witnesses, jurists, opposing lawyers and even the judge.
From a Japanese standpoint, she would take to task the gaijin ladies in Japan who refused to comply with traditions with a condescending attitude, at the same time chastising Japanese obatarian who despaired of the big-nosed foreigners.
Lully was famous for his composition of extended passacailles, pieces based on the ostinato repetition of repeating bass line, usually on a four-bar, stepwise descending bass line, the minor mode tetrachord from do to sol.
But within the regular outline, it is divided obliquely into two irregularly shaped parts of unequal size that descending in height towards the centre are dovetailed together.
Reports say that thousands of eager spectators are descending on the town in anticipation of the event.
Lully was famous for his composition of extended passacailles, pieces based on the ostinato repetition of repeating bass line, usually on a four-bar, stepwise descending bass line, the minor mode tetrachord from do to sol.
So please stop trying to make me into your own personal straw man to knock over and then scoff at with little snidey remarks and condescending interjections. TEXAS FAITH: Glenn Beck and the culture of fear | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
Perhaps not surprisingly, they offer their female readership a male perspective, too, in a snarkily condescending column called "birdlife" by "Tone": Archive 2009-05-10
Many of them command such skills as cajoling, wheedling, thundering, condescending, and even insulting - but, of course, insulting with style.
The steep, descending sides are very soft and sodden, supporting a scanty growth of vegetation, including the small burr known as the "biddy-bid. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
Descending from the same Indo-European root there are a number of Greek words with meanings including "sweet" but also "pleasure" and "rejoicing.
Sarah Palin tore into Michelle Obama on Fox News Wednesday, criticizing the first lady for what she characterized as a recent condescending defense of her husband's presidency. Sarah Palin Slams Michelle Obama On Fox News Over Defense Of Husband's Presidency (VIDEO)
The following are the country's most widely planted varieties, red wine varieties first, in descending order of volume of wine produced.
If so, forgive me while I burst out in condescending laughter. Hagel criticizes McCain over Iran comments
The railings are broken, the steps descending into Terrace Field are now so wonky that they are impassable to some less agile walkers and many of the trees that once crowned the hilltop have died or blown over.
Departing passengers check in at the third level before descending to the concourse on the airside.
Normally, I’d say condescending is a flaw, but if the audience is meant to find Mike dumb, I doubt that we’d hold condescension against her. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » SVT’s Review Forum
Marco Reininger, a veteran and political science major at Columbia, wrote on The Huffington Post that, despite what he called the childish catcalls that greeted Maschek, the institution as a whole is neither as elitist nor as condescending as the media firestorm suggests. ROTC's return to universities a bumpy road
The entries are crisp and precise; simple without being simplistic, accessible without being condescending. The Times Literary Supplement
Scout's slightly condescending love becomes adoring pride. Times, Sunday Times
Instead, he published a condescending repetition of the same stuff he'd run in April.
If so, they were rewarded with a fresh perspective on a composer of astonishing versatility, one whose best work speaks to high- and lowbrows alike without condescending to either.
Truss's voice is deadpan, her asides are witty, and she is never condescending about misuse of the language.
As we began descending from mountains into the desert, I saw agaves, cacti, and ocotillo thriving on the dry, rugged slopes.
If the aircraft is climbing or descending this type of distrail can seem to punch a hole through a cloud. Times, Sunday Times
Only then do we move to Kashmir, setting of Shalimar itself — Shalimar being the ancient name for "the great Mughal garden … descending in verdant liquid terraces to a shining lake. Hobbes in the Himalayas
One such painting was a small, sky-blue tondo with two rough vertical white lines descending partway from the top.
The pirates seize the vessel and use it to attack a shoreside target, descending upon their target from the air.
Senior management, when in the lift, should always make a point of condescending to speak. Blaikie's Guide to Modern Manners
He evaluates the host culture from his own perspective and approaches it with a condescending or even contemptuous attitude.
Did I not martyrize myself into a human mule by descending to the bottom of a dreadful pit (suffering mortal terror all the time, lest it should cave in upon me), actuated by a virtuous desire to see with my own two eyes the process of underground mining, thus enabling myself to be stupidly correct in all my statements thereupon? The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
A second rank list was produced by ranking genes in descending order of the degree of upfold regulation upon PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
These days, you'd have a whole horde of wardens descending on that convoy in a swarm. Times, Sunday Times
In the right lower quadrant you are feeling mainly for the terminal ileum, the cecum, and the ascending colon, and for the descending colon in the left.
It's quite condescending, from my perspective, but I would like to suggest that perhaps promotion of religion and religious activity, on a macro level, might be an effective deterrent for child abuse.
Why, they took him down to the cock-pit, as they called the midshipmen's berth on the lower deck, where we're going now," replied the Captain, leading the way down the companion and an interminable series of other ladders afterwards, as if they were descending to the kelson, the space getting all the narrower and darker as they went down. Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel
Out of the eerie, swirling opening chords a distinctive descending tune emerges, plucked on an acoustic guitar. Times, Sunday Times
He tends to adopt a condescending manner when talking to young women.
The conclusion shows that the optimal strategy of predator is the quadratic equation of time and the profit is the descending function of temporary impact coefficient.
Professor Hutter's manner is extremely condescending.
Never anything remotely close to condescending or evil, The Reader nevertheless suffers chiefly from a distasteful thematic overemphasis, though not far behind is the film's rather insistent self-flattery. Review Catch-Up: Doubt, Slumdog Millionaire, Defiance, The Wrestler, The Reader
This attitude is condescending and short-sighted. Times, Sunday Times
“Christians are the new gays,” more than one person told me, rolling their eyes at the condescending voguishness evangelicals are currently enjoying in Hollywood. Rapture Ready!
The resting took longer than the walking up the steep talus; and at 7.45: after a total of nine hours and a morning's work of two hours and a half, which occupied two in descending, we stood upon the corona or lip of 'Teyde.' To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
When the Confederate armies are scattered; when their leaders are banished from power; when the people return to a late repentant sense of the wrong they have done to a government they never felt but in benignancy and blessing, then the Constitution made for all will be felt by all, like the descending rains from heaven which bless all alike. His Reply to Breckenridge
Descending rows of dots and extended tubular shapes meander across pale blue and green backgrounds.
And I don't use that term condescendingly, I use it as a matter of factual concern. The Purdue Exponent
Descending for the first time, I encountered a thermocline so intense that I thought something was wrong with my eyes.
The verse riff consists of three pairs of lower-higher swung descending arpeggios that themselves feel like two pairs of augmented thirds, and then a little dip down a step from the higher arpeggio which it lands on for a while.
To this day, I still have recurrent dreams of the Corryvreckan, in which I find myself descending a watery spiral staircase to hell.
Policy is not dictated from above and there is no descending chain of responsibility and authority.
What remains of the balloon after burst is dragged earthward by the descending near spacecraft.
Even the most obvious and patently true observation therefore runs the risk of appearing condescending, arrogant or snobbish.
Ascending and descending needs to appear to be effortless and natural.
The jet was descending steeply, but its pilot was able to pull it out just in time.
He reverted back into draconic form and launched himself high into the sky, gaining altitude, then descending on the hapless one-horn in the kind of deadly dive dragons and accipiter hawks had in common. The Elvenbane
After a short rest he started descending but quickly realised he'd taken the wrong turn.
touristic" and "colonialist", which I assume to mean that the film was presenting a "Western" and therefore condescending view of Indian culture. Opus
`So you Barn owls say," the Tawny drawled in his rather condescending tone. THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
That he would use this term, as well as the equally condescending "zany" in referring to this latter comedy makes his valuation of it clear enough, but later he also remarks that "Evelyn Waugh, alas, still represents the great image of English comedy in the 20th century, rather than his subtler and gentler contemporary, Henry Green. Comedy in Literature
Here again, the descending limb of the loop of Henle in freely permeable to water but not to solute.
There were fears that the country was descending into turmoil or even civil war.
Is my sympathy condescending and patronizing?
At the same time I uppercut a solid right hand, bringing it up into his descending face like a hammer. FOOLS GOLD
This is where operators prioritise in descending order the exchanges where they want a presence.
There was an icy tailwind and blowing mist as she, Amy, and Pat began to pick up too much speed descending the long hill down the backside of the Tehachapi pass.
A truckload of logs descending a steep grade is not an easy thing to manoeuvre or stop - I know, because I've tried it.
John Henry is speaking to an acquaintance in the lobby and a beautiful young woman, followed closely behind by a companion, is descending the stairs.
But by the time the plane was descending into the London mist, Emma had returned for the dozenth time to the undeniable truth. The Black Madonna
Then he walked back to the bridge site to meet his wife, who was coolly descending from the iron basket.
Cleaning ladies and janitors would stop by her desk to chat, and as Deidre was never condescending, she seemed to get better service simply because she didn't consider them invisible nonentities.
Being pretentiously condescending to people doesn't make you suddenly right. Super Obamario Wins The Nobel Peace Prize! » E-Mail
The title descending to heir males, I must have the title by outliving my brother, if I do, but hang it all, she [sic] has a daughter, and she will have the estates. Varney the vampire; or, The feast of blood. Volume 3
Observe, It is no disparagement for those who have power to be condescending, and sometimes even to beseech, where, in strictness of right, they might command; so does Paul here, though an apostle: he entreats where he might enjoin, he argues from love rather than authority, which doubtless must carry engaging influence with it. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
The aortic arch is anchored with the neck vessels including the left subclavian artery, and the descending thoracic aorta is fixed to the thorax by the ligamentum arteriosum and by the intercostal arteries.
The sensation of feeling and hearing the force of water striking rocks in inaccessible corners is an experience that can be lived on the kayak and raft, descending Michoacán's rivers. Guide to alternative tourism in Michoacán
But I could feel that we were descending slowly - after two solid days on aeroplanes, my inner ear was sensitive to the tilt of movement.
I sensed him smiling down in a condescending way and ushering me back into the building and onto the stage, tears and all. Christianity Today
I'm back at work tomorrow night and just the thought of it is like a cloud descending over me, closing me in and darkening my mood.
Quickly she fashioned a suitable maid-of-honor dress, complete with a dainty little hennin-a long conical hat with a bit of material descending from it. Harpy Thyme
Imperceptibly descending towards the mountain summit, it cast the land in an array of shadows.
Last week's festival slaked the thirst of over 1,000 visitors, real ale veterans and virgins alike descending on Troon for three days of eager boozing.
In addition, he possessed of himself all the natural attributes of chiefship: the gigantic stature, the fearlessness, the pride; and the high hot temper that could brook no impudence nor insult, that could be neither bullied nor awed by any utmost magnificence of power that walked on two legs, and that could compel service of lesser humans, not by any ignoble purchase by bargaining, but by an unspoken but expected condescending of largesse. THE BONES OF KAHEKILI
This is caused by the descending portion of the duodenum, and is known as the duodenal impression. XI. Splanchnology. 2i. The Liver
November 13th, 2007 at 4: 49 pm stunney: Calling you clownish is called "descending to your opponent's level". Carry-Over Thread
Going down in the lift, in the long drop from the 59th floor, Malone felt his spirits descending, too. YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
It is patter, further marred by a condescending tone.
His plot moves at the pace of a glacier descending a mountain. Times, Sunday Times
As the runners were descending from England's highest mountain, they heard a scream and frantic blasts on an emergency whistle.
We finally got over the dune and we began descending.
Since many elderly patients are unable to walk, the robust young lad carried them on his back when ascending or descending stairs for daily treatment.
Finally, narrow-bodied and wide-bodied planes would land on separate runways, with the narrow bodies descending more steeply. Times, Sunday Times
Below is the chromatic scale, both ascending and descending.
No, being condescending is sometimes entirely justified and is not being a jackass at all. The Volokh Conspiracy » District Court Upholds Ban on Possessing Guns While an Illegal User of a Controlled Substance
Descending the shotline the Brighton emerged at around 40m on a sand and shingle seabed at 48m.
Even when youth activism is accepted it is usually in a condescending or patronizing manner when older and more experienced organizers run and co-opt youth efforts.
Heiress, a wedding dress from 1957 with chevron pleated handkerchief linen descending in tiers banded with handmade Irish crochet, demonstrates the concept at its most magical.
Even if someone was formal with him, they would have to be familiar with biochemical jargon and terminology, or Edward would act condescendingly to them.
Dried salmon and other fish also adorned others, pleasingly hinting of the general honesty and mutual confidence of the humble natives, poor as they were, for strangers were never thought of; the road, such as it was, merely mounting up to "the hill" (the lofty desert of sheepwalk) on one hand, and descending steeply to the river Tivy on the other. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845
The Times columnist was blithely condescending to the songwriting team's canon.
Ex. 4 shows an octave of the chromatic scale beginning on C, notated in sharps ascending and flats descending.
He is free in condescending to us, while we are shy of ascending to him. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
And, of course, avoid anyone who is patronizing or condescending.
The sculptor held the condescending and false view that the imagination was only active in art. Times, Sunday Times
An enema shows a normal sized rectum and small caliber sigmoid and descending colon with a transition zone in colonic caliber occurring at the level of the splenic flexure.
One deals with the devastation to individuals and families; the other with the condescending attitude Western nations have towards developing ones.
And his attitude is condescending. Times, Sunday Times
You will see here how condescending, arrogant, and patronizing these people can be.
Going down in the lift, in the long drop from the 59th floor, Malone felt his spirits descending, too. YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
They have considerable difficulty ascending or descending stairs, and so you may find them in elevators.
There is clearly a descending scale of culpability in non-deliberate deception from that amounting to professional misconduct to that which does not.
This attitude is condescending and short-sighted. Times, Sunday Times
He was awkward, prickly, ill-tempered, condescending and unpredictable.
'The evolution of the epidemic is now on its descending phase,' said Jose Angel Cordova, Mexico's health minister.
The anterior descending branch passes at first behind the pulmonary artery and then comes forward between that vessel and the left auricula to reach the anterior longitudinal sulcus, along which it descends to the incisura apicis cordis; it gives branches to both ventricles. VI. The Arteries. 2. The Aorta
All the other ingredients, including water, have to be listed in descending order by weight.
One finds the same complacency, the same condescendingness, in a far higher degree in the essays of Mr. A.C. Benson. The Art of Letters
On a descending pass, the space station will travel from the northwest toward the southeast.
Far less condescending to call that black candidate an aphasic idiot than to call him or her "articulate. BREAKING: Biden Unloads On Clinton, Obama, Edwards
We also discussed descending into the VFR delta pattern over Whidbey Island to minimize the amount of time the motor would be windmilling following shutdown.
Hit with a descending blow, and even take a small divot.
I'm just trying to compose my face into the right look of condescending congratulation when she heaves on to the deck not one but six beautiful, silvery, shiny mackerel.
She looked around fearfully and shivered slightly as she entered, the cool darkness descending ominously upon her.
Those descending the ramp see the agency's work projected on a series of theatrical scrims.
‘They come from parts of the country where jobs are hard to find,’ an acquaintance condescendingly excuses the enlistees.
Most feminists I had come across, especially the ones close to my age (20s) are pro-porn (or at least, "pro free speech" to the point of being indifferent to porn) and are condescending to those of us who are against pornography - * especially* when someone, like me, is against porn because of her emotions and gut and has no educated, rational, research-backed reasons to give. Women's Space
I didn't like his tone of voice; I felt he was being condescending.
There was a whiff of that artificial, condescending little-ladyism that is sort of like the cockroach and the spiky horsetail plant, those life forms that have defied the odds and survived intact since remotest prehistoric times, while seemingly hardier creatures were going extinct right and left. Did She Take The Hill?
Her foot caught on a root and she fell head first down the hill they were descending.
The descending mantle current tends to drag the crust down with it, forming a deep trench or piling up young mountains.
Also, descending fourths appear in the accompaniment of the melody more than once.
Great Britain consented that the fishery assigned to the French, beginning at Cape St. John, passing to North and descending on the Western coast of the Island of Newfoundland, should extend to the place called Cape Raye, situated in 47° 50 'lat. -- the French to enjoy this as they had the right to enjoy that which was assigned to them by Treaty of Utrecht. The French Shore Question and Newfoundland
Outside it slowly got darker, a gloomy purple descending on the car as it stood in the empty lot.
Pentecostals have endured more than their share of dismissive scholarship, condescending analysis, and popular disdain.
They left the rock and hunted on, going netherward into a damp swale rich with the odor of places where galax grows, descending through scattered clumps of twisted laurel to a thin creek. Cold Mountain
But in March, when his trial began, protests suddenly escalated, with hundreds of people descending on the small local town to mount a demonstration.
Behold those camels, what a long train; twenty, thirty, a whole cafila descending the street. The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula
A descending scale from the top of the keyboard coincides with a rising one from the bottom, and the two hands meet in the centre on the tonic harmony, followed by an immediate pianissimo as the first theme returns.
Young, eager and unshockable, the maid arrives in the prim household, an unwelcome and disruptive presence for her condescending hosts.

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