Yet, the empress-mother never descended to the baseness of Irene, so as to seek the injury of her ungrateful son.
Martina descended from the throne with indignation and sought a refuge in the female apartment of the palace.
The product of Pulcheria's instruction, however, was a ruler who descended below even the weakness of her father and uncle.
The stranger descended and knocked twice at the door: it was opened by an old man, whose exaggerated features, bended frame, and long beard, proclaimed him of the race of Israel.
No lackeys were behind; I mounted the footboard unobserved, and descended and hid myself when the carriage stopped.
He descended from his carriage when about a hundred yards from the abode, and proceeded on foot to the appointed place.
Thomas Idle yielded his arm to the ready Goodchild, and descended from the vehicle.
Accordingly, the party descended to the rugged and stony banks of the stream; and here again Thomas lost ground sadly, and fell far behind his travelling companions.
The Norman family of that name descended from Humphrey de Bohun, who accompanied the Conqueror and was ancestor of the Bohuns, Earls of Hereford, Constables of England.
The Dukes of Newcastle, Devonshire and other great families bearing the name of Cavendish (pronounced Candish), descended from the Gernons and Montfichet.
The Cabells of Virginia are descended from the Cabells of France, in Somersetshire.
From this William de Belwar descended the House of Cholmondely.
Henry IV, the daughter and heiress of Colwick of Notts; and from him descended Lord Byron, the poet.
From this line descended George Washington, the great American General.
The Baronets Boughey are maternally descendedfrom Fletcher.
Breckinridge weredescended on the maternal side from the Cabells--a famous Norman family.
A third or more of this English population is Norman, directly descended from the Norman migration that preceded, accompanied, or followed the Conquest.
Pacific seas, a prosperous and cultivated population descended from some surviving element of the present American stock.
Clay, are descended from the same remote ancestor.
The principal family of these wasdescended from the Barons of Tancarville, Chamberlains of Normandy; also, Chamberlaine, Chamberlin, Chamberlayne.
The musicians themselves, huddled together under the shelter of a mound of rocks where the road descended into the ravine, did not get their share of this early morning radiance, but remained in the shadows.
Both parents were descended from families that were looked upon as among the best in New England, and this became a matter of no little pride to their son.
From one of their openings descended a deep ravine, widening as it issued on the prairie.
He descended into the ravine, loaded the rifles, and mounted his horse.
The sun was up, but was still hid from me behind the great bulk of the Spyglass, which on this side descended almost to the sea in formidable cliffs.
With this interjection, the knife descended on the puff, and it was in two, but the result was not satisfactory to Tom, for he still eyed the halves doubtfully.
Mrs. Tulliver stood with her arms open; Maggie jumped first on one leg and then on the other; while Tom descended from the gig, and said, with masculine reticence as to the tender emotions.
He descended the steps as if he were a statue, and at last entered the palace.
On reaching the river shore, Poëri descended a few steps cut out of the slope of the bank, and bent down as if he were casting off a rope.
The king descended from the chariot, and bowing his head, entered the hut.
Huge columns of prodigious height upbore the blue ceiling studded with stars like the heavens; innumerable lines of hieroglyphs ascended and descended along the walls between the panels of symbolic frescoes painted in bright colours.
So, being strong against tides, as some old poet says of the whale, Miss Prince descended the stairs calmly, and advised Priscilla to put off the special work that had been planned until still later in the week.
They descended the hill, at the same break-neck pace as before, and entered the miserable mushroom town of diamond-grubbers.
Then he descended cautiously on to the six-foot-way, and held out his hand to help Elma from the carriage.
The deep intuition that descended to both was enough to put them in sympathy at once without the need of articulate language.
As the shades of night descended from the hills, Fauns and Faun-women, Nymphs and Pans, came huddling beneath the shelter of the tombs along the roadside, and there under the kindly empire of the infernal powers would enjoy a brief repose.
He descended the hill by a hollow way, and seeing on either side the grapes of the vines that hung down from the branches of the elms, he stretched out his arm and blessed the clusters.
The church bells knelled the peaceful ending of the day, while the purple shades of night descended sadly and majestically on the low chain of neighbouring hills.
On coming to himself, he smelt the perfume of myrtles and roses, and looking out of window saw a garden that descended in successive declivities to the sea.
The transparent shadow vanished away in the light of dawn, which descended clear and white on the hills; and the tombs of San Giovanni grew wan and silent once again in the morning air.
They had agreed, however, to land and explore the island in the hope that they might find some clue to their comrades, and with that intention had descended to the large open space where the reducing operations had been carried on.
After a hasty supper everything about the camp was put in order and with their revolvers freshly oiled and plenty of ammunition in their pockets the adventurers descended by the mound-builders' path to where they had moored the canvas boat.
They were still shouting their loudest, when the vengeance of Heaven descended in judgment on them all.
My lord descended one side of the hollow, his heavy foot bringing down the dead leaves and loose earth; the Italian glided down the opposite side, disturbing the economy of the forest as little as a snake would have done.
We groped our way through the passage to the stairs, noiselessly descended them, and found the outer door unchained, unbarred, and slightly ajar.
We turned and descendedto the green lane and the deserted houses.
As I descended the steps into the growing light outside, I found Master Pory at my side.
Thus occupied, he passed the interval of twilight,--short in these latitudes; nor did he terminate his vigil until darkness had descended upon the deep.
So, instead of going up the steps to the front door, he descended into the area.
This way and that the lights were blurred into a misty radiance; overhead was mere blackness, whence descended the lashing rain.
Rain had just begun to fall, and with it descended the smut and grime that darkened above the houses; the pavement was speedily over-smeared with sticky mud, and passing vehicles flung splashes in every direction.
They crossed Wilmington Square and descended by the streets that slope to Coldbath Fields Prison.
If you took up the mallet to smite upon a spring and make proof of how far you could send a ball flying upwards, your blow descended upon the head of some other recent foeman.
Samuel left the dark room, and with slow step descended to the kitchen.
To enter from the obscurer end, you descended a flight of steps, under a low archway, in a court itself not easily discovered.
Pennyloaf could not even ward off the blows that descended upon her head; she was pinned against the wall, her hat was torn away, her hair began to fly in disorder.
Dispiriting reports ascended (like the smoke) from the basement in volumes, and descended from the upper rooms.
Myriads of holy verses have descended from the heaven of might and grace, yet no one hath turned thereunto, nor ceased to cling to those words of men, not one letter of which they that have spoken them comprehend.
Consider how with this one verse which hath descended from the heaven of the Will of God, the world and all that is therein have been brought to a reckoning with Him.
These ancient Beings, though delivered from the womb of their mother, have in reality descended from the heaven of the will of God.
Such is the share of the pure in heart of the bread that hath descended from the realms of eternity and holiness.
In like manner, those words that have streamed forth from the source of power and descended from the heaven of glory are innumerable and beyond the ordinary comprehension of man.
This verse descended from the heaven of the Primal Will at a time when Ḥamzih had already been invested with the sacred mantle of faith, and Abú-Jahl had waxed relentless in his opposition and unbelief.
Brita stood long looking after him as he descended the rocky slope, and she could hardly conceal from herself that she felt relieved, when, at last, the forest hid him from her sight.
About ten o'clock the bridal processiondescended the slope to the fjord.
She colored a little, for she was not descended from the Brewsters of Lynn.
Emily descended the creaking stairway and rode home with a certain new elation, such as we sometimes feel after contact with some electric character, some grand reservoir of human vitality.
The knoll which Bertha and Sire had descended made a grade like the pitch of an old gable roof.
You might have descended by the mail chute," said Emily, laughing outright, "and then the postman would have collected you just before breakfast.
Will you describe to the court, without any omissions, everything you did and everything you saw Mr. Floyd do from the time he opened the study door until you descended the stairway and discovered the room afire?
Meanwhile Emily, as Shagarach predicted, had descended the stairs much more doubtfully than she had mounted them.
Shagarach had not once descended to mimicry of his assistant's dialect.
A schism having thus arisen in the church, Queen Joan favored the schismatic pope, upon which Urban caused Charles of Durazzo, descended from the kings of Naples, to undertake the conquest of her dominions.
They then descended into the city, which they happily recovered, to Niccolo's disgrace, and with the loss of great numbers of his men.
The damp upon the spirits of the party was most evident, when all had descended from the carriages, and were collected in the woods.
They had already descended to having no prospect at all.
But that he was helpless, befooled, he recognized; and with a final muttered imprecation he turned and slowly descended the stair.
He descended the stair and went along the passage; but ere he reached the door of the room on the ground floor: "Hello!
Ere long he stood up, descended again, but by the back stair, and stood staring reflectively at the door communicating with Kazmah's inner room.
Sin Sin Wa shuffled across to another door, and, followed by Sir Lucien, descended a stone stair to a little cellar apparently intended for storing coal.
Then he settled his hat more firmly upon his red head and descended the stairs.
A pair of wooden steps rested below, and Sir Lucien, who evidently was no stranger to the establishment, descended awkwardly, since there was barely room for a big man to pass.
Cutting through the blackness like a scimitar shone a ray of light from above, widening as itdescended and ending in a white patch on the floor.
Bolognese painter, whose real name was Francesco Raibolini, his father being Marco di Giacomo Raibolini, a carpenter, descended from an old and creditable family, was born at Bologna about 1450.
I descended softly to my own room for a peculiar instrument which I had used for holding small slippery substances, such as minute spheres of glass, etc.
Filled with happy imaginings, he fared onward, the bells of his mules keeping time with the melodious joy of his heart, until he had descended from the tierra caliente to the wilder region on the hither side of Jalapa.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "descended" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
