All 16 Uses of
descend
in
Frankenstein
- ...when at morning's dawn I descended to the carriage which was to convey me away, they were all there—my father again to bless me, Clerval to press my hand once more, my Elizabeth to renew her entreaties that I would write often and to bestow the last feminine attentions on her playmate and friend.
Chpt 3 (definition 1)descended = came
- Presently a breeze dissipated the cloud, and I descended upon the glacier.
Chpt 10 (definition 1) *descended = came suddenly
- The surface is very uneven, rising like the waves of a troubled sea, descending low, and interspersed by rifts that sink deep.
Chpt 10 (definition 2)descending = moving downward
- The sun is yet high in the heavens; before it descends to hide itself behind your snowy precipices and illuminate another world, you will have heard my story and can decide.
Chpt 10 (definition 2) *descends = moves downward
- The air was cold, and the rain again began to descend; we entered the hut, the fiend with an air of exultation, I with a heavy heart and depressed spirits.
Chpt 10 (definition 1)descend = arrive
- I walked and, I believe, descended, but I presently found a great alteration in my sensations.
Chpt 11 (definition 2)descended = moved downward
- He was descended from a good family in France, where he had lived for many years in affluence, respected by his superiors and beloved by his equals.
Chpt 14 (definition 3) *descended = came from (as through genetics)
- I saw him descend the mountain with greater speed than the flight of an eagle, and quickly lost among the undulations of the sea of ice.
Chpt 17 (definition 2)descend = move down
- We had agreed to descend the Rhine in a boat from Strasbourg to Rotterdam, whence we might take shipping for London.
Chpt 18 (definition 2)descend = go down
- The river descends rapidly and winds between hills, not high, but steep, and of beautiful forms.
Chpt 18 (definition 2)descends = goes downward
- I have visited the lakes of Lucerne and Uri, where the snowy mountains descend almost perpendicularly to the water,
Chpt 18 (definition 2)descend = slope downward
- Beyond Cologne we descended to the plains of Holland; and we resolved to post the remainder of our way, for the wind was contrary and the stream of the river was too gentle to aid us.
Chpt 18 (definition 2)descended = moved downward
- The sun had far descended, and I still sat on the shore, satisfying my appetite, which had become ravenous, with an oaten cake, when I saw a fishing-boat land close to me, and one of the men brought me a packet; it contained letters from Geneva, and one from Clerval entreating me to join him.
Chpt 20 (definition 2)
- The moon had reached her summit in the heavens and was beginning to descend; the clouds swept across it swifter than the flight of the vulture and dimmed her rays, while the lake reflected the scene of the busy heavens, rendered still busier by the restless waves that were beginning to rise.
Chpt 23 (definition 2)descend = move downward
- Suddenly a heavy storm of rain descended.
Chpt 23 (definition 1)descended = arrived
- The snows descended on my head, and I saw the print of his huge step on the white plain.
Chpt 24 (definition 2)descended = came down
Definitions:
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(1) (descend as in: thieves descended upon us) to come or arrive -- especially suddenly or from above or as an attack
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(2) (descend as in: descend the mountain) move or slope downward
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(3) (descend as in: descend from royalty) figuratively, to have come down a path from the past; i.e., to originate or come from -- such as in reference to ancestors or evolutionary origins