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descend the mountain
Definition
move or slope downward
- I now heard her descending the great stairs.Chapter 11 (95% in)
descending = moving downward
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- There was a grass-grown track descending the forest aisle between hoar and knotty shafts and under branched arches.Chapter 37 (3% in)
- From every enjoyment I was, of course, excluded: my share of the gaiety consisted in witnessing the daily apparelling of Eliza and Georgiana, and seeing them descend to the drawing-room, dressed out in thin muslin frocks and scarlet sashes, with hair elaborately ringletted; and afterwards, in listening to the sound of the piano or the harp played below, to the passing to and fro of the butler and footman, to the jingling of glass and china as refreshments were handed, to the broken hum...Chapter 4 (12% in)
- I slowly descended.Chapter 4 (35% in)
- The afternoon came on wet and somewhat misty: as it waned into dusk, I began to feel that we were getting very far indeed from Gateshead: we ceased to pass through towns; the country changed; great grey hills heaved up round the horizon: as twilight deepened, we descended a valley, dark with wood, and long after night had overclouded the prospect, I heard a wild wind rushing amongst trees.Chapter 5 (15% in)
- Again the bell rang: all formed in file, two and two, and in that order descended the stairs and entered the cold and dimly lit schoolroom: here prayers were read by Miss Miller; afterwards she called out — "Form classes!"Chapter 5 (37% in)
- I now ventured to descend: it was deep dusk; I retired into a corner and sat down on the floor.Chapter 8 (1% in)
- Having descended a staircase, traversed a portion of the house below, and succeeded in opening and shutting, without noise, two doors, I reached another flight of steps; these I mounted, and then just opposite to me was Miss Temple's room.Chapter 9 (70% in)
- I recalled the time when I had travelled that very road in a coach; I remembered descending that hill at twilight; an age seemed to have elapsed since the day which brought me first to Lowood, and I had never quitted it since.Chapter 10 (23% in)
- I thought when the coach stopped here there would be some one to meet me; I looked anxiously round as I descended the wooden steps the "boots" placed for my convenience, expecting to hear my name pronounced, and to see some description of carriage waiting to convey me to Thornfield.Chapter 11 (3% in)
- Traversing the long and matted gallery, I descended the slippery steps of oak; then I gained the hall: I halted there a minute; I looked at some pictures on the walls (one, I remember, represented a grim man in a cuirass, and one a lady with powdered hair and a pearl necklace), at a bronze lamp pendent from the ceiling, at a great clock whose case was of oak curiously carved, and ebon black with time and rubbing.Chapter 11 (39% in)
- Descending from her chair, she came and placed herself on my knee; then, folding her little hands demurely before her, shaking back her curls and lifting her eyes to the ceiling, she commenced singing a song from some opera.Chapter 11 (62% in)
- Mrs. Fairfax stayed behind a moment to fasten the trap-door; I, by drift of groping, found the outlet from the attic, and proceeded to descend the narrow garret staircase.Chapter 11 (93% in)
- I brushed Adele's hair and made her neat, and having ascertained that I was myself in my usual Quaker trim, where there was nothing to retouch — all being too close and plain, braided locks included, to admit of disarrangement — we descended, Adele wondering whether the petit coffre was at length come; for, owing to some mistake, its arrival had hitherto been delayed.Chapter 14 (6% in)
- She was dressed in pure white; an amber-coloured scarf was passed over her shoulder and across her breast, tied at the side, and descending in long, fringed ends below her knee.Chapter 16 (72% in)
- She would thus descend to the kitchen once a day, eat her dinner, smoke a moderate pipe on the hearth, and go back, carrying her pot of porter with her, for her private solace, in her own gloomy, upper haunt.Chapter 17 (12% in)
- For a moment they stood grouped together at the other extremity of the gallery, conversing in a key of sweet subdued vivacity: they then descended the staircase almost as noiselessly as a bright mist rolls down a hill.Chapter 17 (30% in)
- We descended.Chapter 17 (43% in)
- Colonel Dent, their spokesman, demanded "the tableau of the whole;" whereupon the curtain again descended.Chapter 18 (18% in)
- And the door at the end of the gallery opened, and Mr. Rochester advanced with a candle: he had just descended from the upper storey.Chapter 20 (8% in)
- Descending the laurel walk, I faced the wreck of the chestnut-tree; it stood up black and riven: the trunk, split down the centre, gasped ghastly.Chapter 25 (12% in)
- I know not whether the day was fair or foul; in descending the drive, I gazed neither on sky nor earth: my heart was with my eyes; and both seemed migrated into Mr. Rochester's frame.Chapter 26 (10% in)
- The solicitor addressed me as he descended the stair.Chapter 26 (73% in)
- While the rain descends so, must I lay my head on the cold, drenched ground?Chapter 28 (48% in)
- "You should have waited for my leave to descend," she said.Chapter 29 (49% in)
- They clung to the purple moors behind and around their dwelling — to the hollow vale into which the pebbly bridle-path leading from their gate descended, and which wound between fern-banks first, and then amongst a few of the wildest little pasture-fields that ever bordered a wilderness of heath, or gave sustenance to a flock of grey moorland sheep, with their little mossy-faced lambs:— they clung to this scene, I say, with a perfect enthusiasm of attachment.Chapter 30 (5% in)
- The breeze was from the west: it came over the hills, sweet with scents of heath and rush; the sky was of stainless blue; the stream descending the ravine, swelled with past spring rains, poured along plentiful and clear, catching golden gleams from the sun, and sapphire tints from the firmament.Chapter 34 (56% in)
- He descended the one step, and advanced slowly and gropingly towards the grass-plat.Chapter 37 (10% in)
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