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The gallery
descended
in the bed; perhaps several were being opened, for there were always three men hewing.
The Nautilus, driven downward by its propeller and slanting fins,
descended
to the lowest strata of this sea.
On that day he wore a collar even higher than usual; and, tightly buttoned in his tunic, his figure was so stiff and motionless that the whole vital portion of his person seemed to have
descended
into his legs, which rose in a cadence of set steps with a single movement.
It was to make faith come; but no delights
descended
from the heavens, and she arose with tired limbs and with a vague feeling of a gigantic dupery.
Often looking at her, it seemed to him that his soul, escaping towards her, spread like a wave about the outline of her head, and
descended
drawn down into the whiteness of her breast.
Julien learned, from the Bishop's speech, that the King was
descended
from Charles the Bold.
And yet this letter, intended to give M. de Frilair a trying hour with his patron, enumerated all the serious grounds for complaint and
descended
to the sordid little pinpricks which, after he had borne them, with resignation, for six years, were forcing the abbe Pirard to leave the diocese.
As nothing could be seen likely to interrupt the enjoyments and harmony of such a day, the sisters
descended
to the parlor, with a returning confidence in their brother's security, and their own happiness.
The blacks were the remnants of a race of negroes which had been entailed on his estate from Mr. Wharton's maternal ancestors, who were
descended
from the early Dutch colonists.
Tufts of wool, hanging to the briers, sufficiently denoted the origin of these tracks, and Frances rightly conjectured that whoever
descended
the mountain, would avail himself of their existence, to lighten the labor.
By taking a route over the back of the hill, they
descended
with great expedition, and but little danger.
His head nodded, and little by little his chin
descended
and touched the enemy, who seized it.
There was a garret above, pierced with a scuttle over his head; and down through this scuttle came a cat, suspended around the haunches by a string; she had a rag tied about her head and jaws to keep her from mewing; as she slowly
descended
she curved upward and clawed at the string, she swung downward and clawed at the intangible air.
Tom went first, cutting rude steps in the clay hill as he
descended.
He stooped and passed under; the narrow way
descended
gradually.
Innumerable trunks of trees rose up erect, like clusters of small gothic columns; the branches
descended
to the foreheads of the three holiday makers, whose only view was the expiring copper-like foliage, and the black and white stems of the aspens and oaks.
And beyond, on the Seine, on the hillocks,
descended
the serenity of night, a sort of vague bluish mist, which bathed the trees in transparent vapour.
At eight o'clock, Laurent went to his studio, Therese
descended
to the shop, while the paralyzed woman remained alone in the dining-room until noon; then, after lunch, she found herself without company again until six o'clock.
The goatherd descended, and reaching the place where Don Quixote stood, he said, "I will wager you are looking at that hack mule that lies dead in the hollow there, and, faith, it has been lying there now these six months; tell me, have you come upon its master about here?"
Anselmo praised this second sonnet too, as he had praised the first; and so he went on adding link after link to the chain with which he was binding himself and making his dishonour secure; for when Lothario was doing most to dishonour him he told him he was most honoured; and thus each step that Camilla
descended
towards the depths of her abasement, she mounted, in his opinion, towards the summit of virtue and fair fame.
and who more gallant and courteous than Ruggiero, from whom the dukes of Ferrara of the present day are descended, according to Turpin in his 'Cosmography.'
Nay, I come of no ungrateful stock, for all the world knows, but particularly my own town, who the Panzas from whom I am
descended
were; and, what is more, I know and have learned, by many good words and deeds, your worship's desire to show me favour; and if I have been bargaining more or less about my wages, it was only to please my wife, who, when she sets herself to press a point, no hammer drives the hoops of a cask as she drives one to do what she wants; but, after all, a man must be a man, and a woman a woman; and as I am a man anyhow, which I can't deny, I will be one in my own house too, let who will take it amiss; and so there's nothing more to do but for your worship to make your will with its codicil in such a way that it can't be provoked, and let us set out at once, to save Senor Samson's soul from suffering, as he says his conscience obliges him to persuade your worship to sally out upon the world a third time; so I offer again to serve your worship faithfully and loyally, as well and better than all the squires that served knights-errant in times past or present."
He
descended
the slope and approached the band near enough to see distinctly the flags, make out the colours and distinguish the devices they bore, especially one on a standard or ensign of white satin, on which there was painted in a very life-like style an ass like a little sard, with its head up, its mouth open and its tongue out, as if it were in the act and attitude of braying; and round it were inscribed in large characters these two lines—They did not bray in vain,Our alcaldes twain.
Though we may be
descended
in the direct male line from Hector of Troy himself, our mistresses never fail to address us as 'you' if they think it makes queens of them.
Cowardly, spiritless creature, art thou not in the very place the fair Magalona occupied, and from which she descended, not into the grave, but to become Queen of France; unless the histories lie?
Sancho kept looking about for the Distressed One, to see what her face was like without the beard, and if she was as fair as her elegant person promised; but they told him that, the instant Clavileno
descended
flaming through the air and came to the ground, the whole band of duennas with the Trifaldi vanished, and that they were already shaved and without a stump left.
The duke had now
descended
to the courtyard of the castle, and going up to Tosilos he said to him, "Is it true, sir knight, that you yield yourself vanquished, and that moved by scruples of conscience you wish to marry this damsel?"
With this they
descended
the slope and directed their steps to their village.
Mr. Pickwick was the very personation of kindness and humanity: he threw the reins on the horse's back, and having
descended
from his seat, carefully drew the chaise into the hedge, lest anything should come along the road, and stepped back to the assistance of his distressed companion, leaving Mr. Tupman and Mr. Snodgrass in the vehicle.
With these words Mr. Pickwick
descended
to the parlour, where he found breakfast laid, and the family already assembled.
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