All 7 Uses of
descend
in
Ethan Frome
- Yet I had come in the degenerate day of trolley, bicycle and rural delivery, when communication was easy between the scattered mountain villages, and the bigger towns in the valleys, such as Bettsbridge and Shadd's Falls, had libraries, theatres and Y. M. C. A. halls to which the youth of the hills could descend for recreation.†
Chpt Open
- It seemed to be a part of the thickening darkness, to be the winter night itself descending on us layer by layer.
Chpt Open *descending = coming
- Mattie Silver was the daughter of a cousin of Zenobia Frome's, who had inflamed his clan with mingled sentiments of envy and admiration by descending from the hills to Connecticut, where he had married a Stamford girl and succeeded to her father's thriving "drug" business.†
Chpt 3
- It was the first scene of open anger between the couple in their sad seven years together, and Ethan felt as if he had lost an irretrievable advantage in descending to the level of recrimination.†
Chpt 7
- To this retreat he descended as soon as the house was quiet, and Zeena's steady breathing from the bed had assured him that there was to be no sequel to the scene in the kitchen.†
Chpt 8 *
- They had reached the point where the road dipped to the hollow by Ethan's mill and as they descended the darkness descended with them, dropping down like a black veil from the heavy hemlock boughs.†
Chpt 9
- They had reached the point where the road dipped to the hollow by Ethan's mill and as they descended the darkness descended with them, dropping down like a black veil from the heavy hemlock boughs.†
Chpt 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