There was a garret above, pierced with a scuttle over his head; and down through this scuttle came a cat, suspended around the haunches by a string; she had a rag tied about her head and jaws to keep her from mewing; as she slowly descended she curved upward and clawed at the string, she swung downward and clawed at the intangible air.
His head nodded, and little by little his chin descended and touched the enemy, who seized it.
"She is my mother," Peter explained; and Jane descended and stood by his side, with the look in her face that he liked to see on ladies when they gazed at him.
As the city was sweating its way through a heat wave, I recently descended into the furnace that was the New York City subway and fled Manhattan for the soothing breezes of the Coney Island seashore.
Genuine depression was untreatable in the 19th century, and its victims often descended into madness or took their own lives.
She clasped her sister's waist, and together they descended the stairs.
All too soon, the clouds grew thicker, the moon descended below the treetop and my lunar encounter was at an end.
cn quoted a fisheries scientist as saying the adults that died had been "extremely precious" as they were directly descended from wild sturgeon.
You even descended so far in your menial office as to take a suck at that warm, insipid stuff yourself, to see if it was right -- three parts water to one of milk, a touch of sugar to modify the colic, and a drop of peppermint to kill those immortal hiccoughs.
I was starting to think we would never reach Winterfell, Robert complained as they descended.
" Then her voice came back to her, and she cried out loudly: "Yes, Mary, I did it," and straight-way rain fell from the sky and extinguished the flames of fire, and a light broke forth above her, and the Virgin Mary descended with the two little sons by her side, and the new-born daughter in her arms.
A sudden silence descended over the party.
Thinking desiring to know how he claimed kindred（,） to him, the poor fellow replied, We are all descended from one common father and mother viz.
It was a well, to paraphrase the mysterious Woodsman, that descended deep and retrieved strange, intoxicating water.
Hundreds of property punters descended on the area immediately after the announcement.
Alexander's mother was Olympias, princess of Epirus, who according to Plutarch was descended from Achilles' grandfather.
Great Dane As much as the literary-minded among us wish that this dog breed were named after Hamlet, the breed name comes from the French grand danois ('Great Dane'), and likely is descended from a mix of mastiff and greyhound or wolfhound.
Descended from a Cretaceous Era giant of the sea, the Mako of today tops out at around 500 pounds—and bears all the hallmarks of evolutionary success.
Several Chinese technology, white good and food companies have descended into the Australian market in recent times.
We descended through blustery rain and buffeting winds into sparkling sunny lakeland, checking the traps as we went.
