Old mars' bein' 'long ago dead, de debt descends to Mars' Pendleton.
Our ears pop because of the change in air pressure as the plane ascends or descends.
However, this phenomenon is one which descends from our ancient ancestors who used it to keep warm and it may have even kept them alive by deterring predators -- but experts have deemed this reaction useless to modern day humans.
[T]he spirit of the law, which is produced in the schools and courts of justice, gradually penetrates beyond their walls into the bosom of society, where it descends to the lowest classes, so that at last the whole people contract the habits and the tastes of the judicial magistrate.
From above, very, very slowly, a giant wooden grill descends on them, bursts them, and crushes them.
Over the remains of mighty cities on the broad Danube, cities which we in our time know not, the travellers pass; but here and there, on the rich sites of those that time shall bring forth, the caravan sometimes descends, and departs thence again.
