In silence they began to descend, perforce walking quickly because of the steep gradient.
'Let the Holy Ghost descend upon us now,' the revivalist pleaded with restrained passion; and then, opening his eyes and looking at the clock in front of the gallery, he repeated, 'Now, now, at twenty-one minutes past seven.
The oak staircase creaks somewhat as I descend, but not much:—I am in the carré.
Paulina would still have lingered, but I inclined to descend: we went down.
Well, if so much of unholy force can arise from below, may not an equal efflux of sacred essence descend one day from above?
I longed to leave them as the criminal on the scaffold longs for the axe to descend: that is, I wished the pang over.
Certainly, at some hour, though perhaps not your hour, the waiting waters will stir; in some shape, though perhaps not the shape you dreamed, which your heart loved, and for which it bled, the healing herald will descend, the cripple and the blind, and the dumb, and the possessed will be led to bathe.
Where to go to get some breakfast I could not tell; but I proceeded, not without hesitation, to descend.
To do so would be to descend to the level of these poor peasants, who are not content with a mere fiend dog but must needs describe him with hell-fire shooting from his mouth and eyes.
" "Since Rodger Baskerville, Sir Charles's younger brother died unmarried, the estate would descend to the Desmonds, who are distant cousins.
" We heard the steps of our visitors descend the stair and the bang of the front door.
She stood with her hand on the fastening of the gate, and looked steadily at them, with an expression that hardly attained to interest, but did not descend to curiosity.
As she never offered to descend to breakfast next morning, I went to ask whether she would have some carried up.
He ran to the window and I to the door, just in time to behold the two Lintons descend from the family carriage, smothered in cloaks and furs, and the Earnshaws dismount from their horses: they often rode to church in winter.
" And the sailor was about to descend, when he was preceded by the nimble Jup, who slid down to the sand.
It was easy to descend to the bottom of the well by employing the rope ladder which had not been used since the establishment of the lift.
They were not even trying to replace the ladder, by which it would have been easy to descend; perhaps in their terror they had forgotten this way of escape.
This mode of communication obliged them first to climb Prospect Heights, making a detour by the river's bank, and then to descend two hundred feet through the passage, having to climb as far when they wished to return to the plateau.
It was therefore practicable, and, provided that the declivity did not increase, it would be easy to descend even to the level of the sea.
To return to the Chimneys, it was enough to cross the plateau obliquely for the space of a mile, and then to descend to the elbow formed by the first detour of the Mercy.
