The swift descent had been the result.

THE DESCENT FROM THE CROSS, and the DEPOSITION, are two separate themes.

If that descent was a desperate business, the subsequent climb was heartbreaking.

We have seen that the descent from personality, as we know it in ourselves, to matter, as we know it under what we call inanimate forms, is a gradual descent in the scale of intelligence from that mode of being which is able to realize its own will-power as a capacity for originating new trains of causation to that mode of being which is incapable of recognizing itself at all.

Giddiness tickled me with her long, awl-like legs, and so I stayed where I was I have felt the descent, through the spine and the soles of the feet, and that as well as any one: the descent is the pinch.

A descent into his "lower deep" and "other deep," might be a plunge less horrible than two or three successive slides in one of our western caverns!

It is true that I could have made straight towards the Lot by the compass, but the descent of the precipitous cliffs into the deep gorge, unless one knows the paths, is only a task to be undertaken at nightfall with a light heart by those who have had no experience of this savage district.

Thy boasted descent is a fiction: base, and brutish, and insensible was thy stock.

Henry, Earl of Richmond, was at this time detained in a kind of honorable custody by the Duke of Brittany, and his descent, which seemed to give him some pretensions to the crown, had been a great object of jealousy both in the late and in the present reign.

We are repaid for an evil night by a fine day; and the descent into Italy will be pleasanter than we found the coming up.

The descent of water at this place cannot be less than seventy feet.

As he had predicted, the final descent was a decided scramble, but he held her up until the mossy bank was reached; and would have held her longer, but with a little breathless laugh she released herself.

From the base of this elevation the descent of the river is almost a precipice.

Not since the heartless barbarians made their ruthless descent upon the Roman Empire was there such havoc wrought in any one house, or did any individual member of society suffer so much from nervous prostration as Mrs. Fennell.

The DESCENT OF THE HOLY GHOST is a strictly scriptural subject.

For even in 1880 the descent upon London from the suburbs was a formidable phenomenon.

The descent is steeper, and in parts very trying.

You are a more devoted mother than wife, as you have always dwelt upon a lofty white peak of chaste womanhood, from which any descent into the earthly realms of life and love was repugnantso rarely "pure" and high your nature.

He hath this hand over fortune, that her injuries, how violent or sudden soever, they do not daunt him; for whether his time call him to live or die, he can do both nobly; if to fall, his descent is breast to breast with virtue; and even then, like the sun near his set, he shows unto the world his clearest countenance.

It is doubtful whether that family was purely Chinese, and in any case Li Shih-min's descent from it is a matter of doubt.

By this time, however, Raoul found he was so completely master of his movements as to be able to swing his legs out of the port by a very trifling effort; then the descent into the boat would be the easiest thing imaginable.

Our descent became a wild toboggan.