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Mr. Pickwick, on hearing this determination,
descended
to the drawing-room, where sat a grave man, who started up on his entrance, and said, with an air of profound respect:--'Mr.
How long this scene might have lasted, or how much Mr. Pickwick might have suffered, no one can tell, had not a carriage, which was driving swiftly by, suddenly pulled up, from whence there
descended
old Wardle and Sam Weller, the former of whom, in far less time than it takes to write it, if not to read it, had made his way to Mr. Pickwick's side, and placed him in the vehicle, just as the latter had concluded the third and last round of a single combat with the town-beadle.
With this direction, and having been furthermore informed that the hostelry in question was situated in a court, happy in the double advantage of being in the vicinity of Clare Market, and closely approximating to the back of New Inn, Mr. Pickwick and Sam
descended
the rickety staircase in safety, and issued forth in quest of the Magpie and Stump.
CHAPTER XXIV WHEREIN Mr. PETER MAGNUS GROWS JEALOUS, AND THE MIDDLE-AGED LADY APPREHENSIVE, WHICH BRINGS THE PICKWICKIANS WITHIN THE GRASP OF THE LAWWhen Mr. Pickwick
descended
to the room in which he and Mr. Peter Magnus had spent the preceding evening, he found that gentleman with the major part of the contents of the two bags, the leathern hat-box, and the brown-paper parcel, displaying to all possible advantage on his person, while he himself was pacing up and down the room in a state of the utmost excitement and agitation.
They have
descended
a gentle slope, and enter upon a level, as compact and dry as a solid block of marble, two miles long.
The occasion being an important one, he dressed himself with peculiar care, and
descended
to the breakfast-room.
And again the king of the goblins gave his leg a flourish; again it
descended
on the shoulders of the sexton; and again the attendant goblins imitated the example of their chief.
Having
descended
in safety from the wall, and not forgotten to devote a few moments to his own particular business in the same department, Mr. Weller then made the best of his way back to the Bush, where his prolonged absence had occasioned much speculation and some alarm.
Beg your pardon, sir,'continued Sam, touching his hat as Mr. Winkle descended, 'hope there warn't a priory 'tachment, sir?'Mr. Winkle grasped his humble friend by the hand, and whispered in his ear,'It's all right, Sam; quite right.'
They passed through the inner gate, and
descended
a short flight of steps.
What a rum thing time is, ain't it, Neddy?'The gentleman to whom these observations were addressed, who appeared of a taciturn and thoughtful cast, merely echoed the inquiry; Mr. Roker, shaking off the poetical and gloomy train of thought into which he had been betrayed,
descended
to the common business of life, and resumed his pen.
The door swung heavily after them, and they
descended
a small flight of steps.
So saying, the surly man leisurely
descended
from the wheel, on which he had been poising himself on the tops of the toes of his right foot, and having summoned the boy in the gray livery, opened the coach door, flung down the steps, and thrusting in a hand enveloped in a dark wash-leather glove, pulled out the old lady with as much unconcern in his manner as if she were a bandbox.
My uncle
descended
from his perch in a twinkling.
'Robbers!' cried Mr. Pickwick, running to the stair-head, as the two attorneys
descended.
We
descended
and started off once more for Briony Lodge.
As I descended, my old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door tightly behind him.
Kate made her way from the hall with the fixed, inward-looking eye, the flaming cheek, and airborne limbs of one on whom the mantle of the Spirit has
descended.
The road
descended
for miles, crossing the dry beds of many water-courses and once a broad river, where Fibby stopped for another drink, and would have lain down to roll in a melon-bed but that his rider spurred him on up the slope.
They
descended
the slope, which was covered with sharp stones and sleeping goats.
Tarvin measured the crisis which had suddenly
descended
on him out of the clouds; he achieved an instantaneous change of front, and met her smiling.
On one of those immense staircases, upon whose space modern civilization would build a whole house, ascended and
descended
the office seekers of Paris, who ran after any sort of favor--gentlemen from the provinces anxious to be enrolled, and servants in all sorts of liveries, bringing and carrying messages between their masters and M. de Treville.
Scarcely had he
descended
the first stair, when a hand of iron seized him by the belt and stopped him.
An instant after, the Guardsman
descended
in his turn.
Both
descended
to the chamber in which the wounded man lay.
The young woman and the young man, without taking the trouble to shut the door after them,
descended
the Rue des Fossoyeurs rapidly, turned into the Rue des Fosses-Monsieur-le-Prince, and did not stop till they came to the Place St. Sulpice.
Bonacieux, darting at her the most loving glance that he could possibly concentrate upon her charming little person; and while he
descended
the stairs, he heard the door closed and double-locked.
She then turned to the right, followed the course of a long corridor,
descended
a flight, went a few steps farther, introduced a key into a lock, opened a door, and pushed the duke into an apartment lighted only by a lamp, saying, "Remain here, my Lord Duke; someone will come."
While this dialogue was going on, the two young men and the poor lackey
descended.
There was a moment of silence; but at length the two Englishmen felt ashamed to draw back, and the angrier one
descended
the five or six steps which led to the cellar, and gave a kick against the door enough to split a wall.
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