All 6 Uses of
descend
in
The War of the Worlds
- Many people in Berkshire, Surrey, and Middlesex must have seen the fall of it, and, at most, have thought that another meteorite had descended.†
Chpt 1.2 *
- All about me gathered the invisible terrors of the Martians; that pitiless sword of heat seemed whirling to and fro, flourishing overhead before it descended and smote me out of life.†
Chpt 1.7
- Over that, above the blackened heather and ruined buildings that stretched far and wide, stood one as sentinel, while the rest abandoned their vast fighting-machines and descended into the pit.†
Chpt 1.13
- To me it is quite credible that the Martians may be descended from beings not unlike ourselves, by a gradual development of brain and hands (the latter giving rise to the two bunches of delicate tentacles at last) at the expense of the rest of the body.†
Chpt 2.2
- Already men, weeping with joy, as I have heard, shouting and staying their work to shake hands and shout, were making up trains, even as near as Crewe, to descend upon London.
Chpt 2.9 *descend = arrive
- The line on the London side of Woking station was still undergoing repair, so I descended at Byfleet station and took the road to Maybury, past the place where I and the artilleryman had talked to the hussars, and on by the spot where the Martian had appeared to me in the thunderstorm.†
Chpt 2.9
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