He held the ladder tight as his friend descended it one rung at a time.    From LearnThat.org. 

On this descend is a little lover's seat that gives an illusion of suspension in pictures taken there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hari Hareshwar, Paradise Calling] Reference

And who would descend from the light of the peaceful places.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Drift of Pinions] Reference

May she never descend from the height to which she has attained!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man's Rights: or, How Would You Like It?] Reference

German baron would not be proud to descend from the Eumaeus of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference

Hainan reported seeing a parachute descend from the debris of Lieutenant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dunn, Joseph P.] Reference

In other words, they all descend from a Jefferson, but I can't say which one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-07-01] Reference

They are supposed by Moslems to descend from the old Syrians expelled by Joshua.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

Did I really descend from the skies in the form of a small, bushy-tailed rodent?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Look, Ma! I'm a Squirrel!] Reference

"Descending to weep" to "streets" or squares, whither they descend from the housetops.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference

The path of pride you draw isn't just a path travelled by those who descend from the mountain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Genius in a Bottle] Reference

The Upsala glacier and six other glaciers descend from the South Andean icefield into the lake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sound Politics: Faith-based initiatives] Reference

The northern states of Mexico are heavily influenced by weather systems that descend from the north.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mexican Climate - A Thumbnail Guide] Reference

Just remember this, no matter what race we are, somewhere back in time we all descend from a common ancestor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is That Legal?: Fundraising Through Falsehood at VDare.com] Reference

By the divisions -- that is, the watercourses which descend from the eastern hills unto the Jordan and Dead Sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference

In both cases, you note, the groups descend from a common religious tradition but are now poles apart culturally.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » A Thought on American Jewish Demography] Reference

You'll have to pardon the pictures -- trying to grab a few snapshots as 100 sugar-craving guests descend is not so easy!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference

However, it has also been argued that things go the other way round, and that sika might descend from a red deer-like form.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference

But I have wandered away from my subject into the regions of thought, and must again descend to common work-a-day realities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roughing It in the Bush] Reference

In many parts of our country the coldest temperatures are associated with large cold air masses which descend from the arctic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » January Was the Warmest Temperature in World History] Reference

I had not a wish to descend from the propriety of wedded life, and I abhorred, decidedly abhorred, the acquaintance with Lord Lyttelton.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Mary Robinson] Reference

Those honours and titles descend to you, his son. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [River God]

For, if those titles descend to persons that degenerate into Vice, and break off the continued line of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &C, Volume 2] Reference

The “Arabian Odyssey” may, like its Greek brother, descend from a noble family, the “Shipwrecked.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

The other half goes to the brothers and sisters of the husband, whose titles descend to his own brothers and sisters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference

65 The memory of these Arctic fleets that seemed to descend from the polar circle left deep impression of terror on the Imperial city.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference

I descend from a long line of Shaman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dave M Murphy] Reference

I will descend, although that word, "descend," has too often raised false hope.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference

Mines In no country did artisans as a class 'descend' to organizing the unskilled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Chapter 9] Reference

In fact, the Average American black would be more likely to "descend" from slave owners.    From Wordnik.com.  ["The Spy Next Door" (2010)] Reference

The train had stopped, and all the passengers were preparing to "descend," as the French have it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harper's Young People, March 9, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference

Or do they irregularly "descend" on the local structures with expectations to be "received" as honoured guests?.    From Wordnik.com.  [SECTION B] Reference

These rooms were on the ground floor, so Mr. Pickwick had to "descend" from his bedroom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pickwickian Studies] Reference

Only for five minutes did the rain descend.    From Wordnik.com.  [CHAPTER IX] Reference

"descend" to the minutest particulars, such as the dispensing with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another World Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah] Reference

European relations could again descend quickly into acrimony.    From Wordnik.com.  [EUROPE: COZYING UP TO CONDI] Reference

Be patient: The media gnats are about to descend on Bradley, the Goreans know.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Buzz About Bradley] Reference

But the Saudis fear the Haj, when millions of Muslims from around the world descend on Mecca.    From Wordnik.com.  [Worst-Case Scenarios] Reference