All 8 Uses of
descend
in
The Awakening
- He accepted the sunshade, and lifting it over his head descended the steps and walked away.†
Chpt 1
- When Mrs. Pontellier left him to enter her room, the young man descended the steps and strolled over toward the croquet players, where, during the half-hour before dinner, he amused himself with the little Pontellier children, who were very fond of him.†
Chpt 2
- They descended the steps, and walked away together toward the beach.†
Chpt 5 *
- This may seem like a ponderous weight of wisdom to descend upon the soul of a young woman of twenty-eight—perhaps more wisdom than the Holy Ghost is usually pleased to vouchsafe to any woman.
Chpt 6 *descend = come
- He had evidently already taken leave of the people over at the house, for he descended the steps and went to join Beaudelet, who was out there with an oar across his shoulder waiting for Robert.†
Chpt 15
- In the next room she slept, and in the third and last she harbored a gasoline stove on which she cooked her meals when disinclined to descend to the neighboring restaurant.†
Chpt 21
- She had been a little bewildered upon rising, or rather, descending from her cushions, and Monsieur Ratignolle gallantly took her arm and led her away.†
Chpt 30
- There was with her a feeling of having descended in the social scale, with a corresponding sense of having risen in the spiritual.†
Chpt 32
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