All 5 Uses of
descend
in
The Time Machine
- An eddying murmur filled my ears, and a strange, dumb confusedness descended on my mind.
Chpt 3 *descended = came
- I determined to descend and find where I could sleep.†
Chpt 5 *
- I sat upon the edge of the well telling myself that, at any rate, there was nothing to fear, and that there I must descend for the solution of my difficulties.†
Chpt 5
- But even while I turned this over in my mind I continued to descend.†
Chpt 6
- Its evil eyes were wriggling on their stalks, its mouth was all alive with appetite, and its vast ungainly claws, smeared with an algal slime, were descending upon me.†
Chpt 11
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