All 17 Uses of
descend
in
White Fang
- The grey light of day that remained lasted until three o'clock, when it, too, faded, and the pall of the Arctic night descended upon the lone and silent land.†
Part 1
- A great awe descended upon him.†
Part 3
- As the hand descended closer and closer, there raged within the cub a battle of the instincts.†
Part 3
- He would have been glad for the rattle of stones about him, flung by an angry squaw, glad for the hand of Grey Beaver descending upon him in wrath; while he would have welcomed with delight Lip-lip and the whole snarling, cowardly pack.†
Part 3
- White Fang sprang clear, just in time to escape the descending blow.
Part 3 *descending = moving downward
- Once, the man pointed at him, and White Fang snarled back as though the hand were just descending upon him instead of being, as it was, fifty feet away.†
Part 4
- One hand extended outward and began to descend upon his head.
Part 4descend = come down
- The hand continued slowly to descend, while he crouched beneath it, eyeing it malignantly, his snarl growing shorter and shorter as, with quickening breath, it approached its culmination.†
Part 4
- The god's hand had come out and was descending upon his head.†
Part 4
- He snarled more menacingly, crouched still lower, and still the hand descended.†
Part 4
- He stepped away from the rifle, and White Fang's lifted lips descended, covering his teeth.†
Part 4
- There it came now, the god's hand, cunning to hurt, thrusting out at him, descending upon his head.†
Part 4
- The hand descended.†
Part 4
- The hand lifted and descended again in a patting, caressing movement.†
Part 4
- And every time the hand descended, the ears flattened down and a cavernous growl surged in his throat.†
Part 4
- Then he and Judge Scott, revolvers in hand, cautiously descended.†
Part 5
- All his life he had tended and operated on the soft humans of civilisation, who lived sheltered lives and had descended out of many sheltered generations.†
Part 5
Definition:
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(descend as in: descend the mountain) move or slope downward