Dusk is descending through the bands of heat, and all the great-tailed grackles are gathering in the locust trees.
Eutharic was descended through five generations from Hermanric, whilst Theoderic was a descendant of Hermanric's older brother Vultwulf.
He was descended, through his mother, from the powerful and historically influential Alcmaeonid family.
All these were descended through another unnamed daughter foaled in 1813, as was Hyacinthus, who won the 1940 Middle Park Stakes.
He was descended (through his paternal grandmother) from the Fleetwood family who had owned the large Rossall estate in West Lancashire for over 200 years.
The little propeller plane was descending through fluffy clouds after what must have been a bumpy flight.
And three weeks ago, a woman who was descending through that very support system slipped during a thunderstorm and fell to her death.
At 10 19, according to radar, the plane was descending through 3,500 feet and began to drift southward, away from the runway.
Halfway to the ground, aware of the plunge, he thinks suddenly, I am descending through the mine shaft of the dark and unknowable, and tries hard not to think about it.
God, as absolute being and goodness, stands at the summit, with the great chain of being descending through the many forms of spiritual, animal, and plant life down to lifeless matter.
