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Definition of the day : « descend »
- verb move down, lower a
- verb condescend
- verb trace ancestry from; be passed or handed down
- With a lowering face he watched her descend and, his hand on the newel, confronted her.
- Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke
- The explosion had blown in the wall and cut off the only path by which they could descend.
- Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- They could not now descend from the eminence on which they stood.
- Extract from : « Stories from Thucydides » by H. L. Havell
- At this stage it is not necessary or desirable to descend to detail.
- Extract from : « The Story of the Malakand Field Force » by Sir Winston S. Churchill
- The mountain that is easy to descend must soon be climbed again.
- Extract from : « The Biography of a Grizzly » by Ernest Seton-Thompson
- Be very careful how you descend the stairs, Nandy; they are rather uneven and worn.'
- Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens
- I must not descend so low as that, and carry you—so dear, so generous, so good—down with me.
- Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens
- Whatsoever fashion is set in England, is certain to descend.
- Extract from : « The Uncommercial Traveller » by Charles Dickens
- Aided by my Flicie, I dressed in haste and tried to descend, but it was impossible.
- Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
- I was at last able to descend myself, and I tried to remove the snow to one side.
- Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt