All 8 Uses of
descend
in
David Copperfield
- I must not forget that we went on board the yacht, where they all three descended into the cabin, and were busy with some papers.†
Chpt 1-3
- Into this shop, which was low and small, and which was darkened rather than lighted by a little window, overhung with clothes, and was descended into by some steps, I went with a palpitating heart; which was not relieved when an ugly old man, with the lower part of his face all covered with a stubbly grey beard, rushed out of a dirty den behind it, and seized me by the hair of my head.†
Chpt 13-15
- The old-fashioned brass knocker on the low arched door, ornamented with carved garlands of fruit and flowers, twinkled like a star; the two stone steps descending to the door were as white as if they had been covered with fair linen; and all the angles and corners, and carvings and mouldings, and quaint little panes of glass, and quainter little windows, though as old as the hills, were as pure as any snow that ever fell upon the hills.†
Chpt 13-15
- The influence for all good, which she came to exercise over me at a later time, begins already to descend upon my breast.
Chpt 16-18 *descend = come
- But Miss Mowcher, finding that I was not at present disposed for any decoration within the range of her art, and that I was, for the time being, proof against the blandishments of the small bottle which she held up before one eye to enforce her persuasions, said we would make a beginning on an early day, and requested the aid of my hand to descend from her elevated station.†
Chpt 22-24
- Traddles thanked me, and descended.†
Chpt 28-30 *
- 'I descended — as I might have known I should, but that he fascinated me with his boyish courtship — into a doll, a trifle for the occupation of an idle hour, to be dropped, and taken up, and trifled with, as the inconstant humour took him.†
Chpt 55-57
- Mr. Micawber immediately descended to the bar, where he appeared to be quite at home; and in due time returned with a steaming jug.†
Chpt 55-57
Definitions:
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(descend as in: thieves descended upon us) to come or arrive -- especially suddenly or from above or as an attack
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(descend as in: descend the mountain) move or slope downward