Descends

Examples

• When the air descends with a violence in some places, it may rise with equal violence in others, and form both kinds of whirlwinds. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The non-magnetic gangue descends in a straight line to the other side of the partition. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• While the rain descends so, must I lay my head on the cold, drenched ground? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• This mixture descends by gravity, and gradually fills the entire space between the two sets of molds. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The palm of Silas Wegg descends with a sounding smack upon the palm of Venus, and Wegg lavishly exclaims, 'Twin in opinion equally with feeling! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• We will not perish unrevenged--and mighty will our avenger be, when he descends in visible majesty, and scatters destruction among you. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The shade is so arranged, that in raising the end to cover the lens of one lantern, the farther end descends, and exposes, in an equal degree, the other lens. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• A forest valley, with rocky sides and brown profundity of shade, formed by tree crowding on tree, descends deep before me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Mr. Snagsby descends and finds the two 'prentices intently contemplating a police constable, who holds a ragged boy by the arm. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• As The Vengeance descends from her elevation to do it, the tumbrils begin to discharge their loads. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• As it descends the pins are automatically set on end, and when they rest on the spots on the alley the machine releases them and springs up to its original position. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The wetted paper is heaped upon a truck, which gradually descends, to keep the upper sheets on a level with the table, till the paper is piled up a yard in thickness. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• When the gun is fired the recoil raises the counterweight, and the gun descends and is locked in its lower position. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The paper feed is shown at the end of the press-lever, and consists of a push dog, or pawl, which operates to urge the paper forward as the press-lever descends. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• All her magnificent hair, which had before reached and now again descends much below her waist, had been shorn from her beautiful little head. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The supposed Evremonde descends, and the seamstress is lifted out next after him. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.

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