Descended

Examples

• They descended into the passage, and thence into the cellars below. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• At two o'clock I descended again to the breakfast-room, a little anxiously. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But how many generations of the women who had gone to her making had descended bandaged to the family vault? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Presently a breeze dissipated the cloud, and I descended upon the glacier. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• A footman opened the door, and a small, stout man in a shaggy astrakhan overcoat descended. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The haggard head floated up the dark staircase, and softly descended nearer to the floor outside the outer door of the chambers. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• They descended to breakfast. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I descended to the bottom of the hollow, squeezed my way through a hedge, and got out into a lane. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Scarcely had the blow descended when I was confronted with a new danger. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Then they descended separately among the people. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Much depressed, and, to me, unaccountably so, I slowly descended to the street. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• I want to speak to him,' was his first remark as they descended the stairs. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The joint family system, he said, has descended to us from time immemorial, the Aryan patriarchal system of old still holding sway in India. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He heard a rustling on his left hand, a cloaked figure with an upturned face appeared at the base of the Barrow, and Clym descended. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Whatever those might be which descended to me, my noble young friend resolved should not be lost for want of culture. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• We descended and entered. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The sense of disease and mortality, the insecurity and the unsatisfactoriness of all happiness, descended upon the mind of Gautama. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• As we descended in great circles toward the navy docks a mighty multitude could be seen surging in the streets beneath. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• You will remember that on hearing the sound of the quarrel she descended and returned with the other servants. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• They were popularly supposed to inhabit the lesser moon, from which they descended upon Barsoom at long intervals. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Indeed it was from this famous family, as it appears, that Miss Sharp, by the mother's side, was descended. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• She descended in a subdued flutter. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• And amid the noise of merriment from below they descended. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Suddenly a heavy storm of rain descended. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I think he must be descended from a sheep, Becky whispered to Lord Steyne. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• They passed through the inner gate, and descended a short flight of steps. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I came at last to an old and worn flight, and, taking it for granted that this must be the one indicated, I descended them. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• On opening my eyes, I beheld at my side an aged man, whose white beard descended to his middle. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• He hastily descended, as the room-door opened, and the girl came out. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• 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. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

Editor: Luke