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A bruised silence descended on the van.
— Hillary Jordan
With him inside the elevator descended.
— Philip K. Dick
Oh no, I am descended from the important Carters.
— Henry Carter Stuart
Night descended on Roarhaven like a woolly blanket of blackness with holes in it that were the stars.
— Derek Landy
By Mary, God descended from Heaven into the world, so that by her men might ascend from earth into Heaven.
— Fulgentius Of Cartagena
A carbon-based bipedal life form descended from an ape.
— Douglas Adams
You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended to philosophical heights.
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
Once upon a time, chimaera descended by the thousands into a cathedral beneath the earth. And never left.
— Laini Taylor
It's better to have won & lost than to have won, stopped trying, & descended into alcoholism.
— Craig Benzine
It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.
— H.L. Mencken
An iron curtain has descended over Europe.
— Winston Churchill
People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.
— Mark Twain
If Mars formed life, then life on Earth could have been seeded by life on Mars, making every life form on Earth descended from Martians.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
The mood of misery that descended never altogether lifted; it lingered like a cloud that might rain or might not.
— Truman Capote
Even the gods were impressed. They descended from Olympus and loaded Hercules down with so much swag, it got embarrassing. Hermes
— Rick Riordan
The main conclusion here arrived at ... is that man is descended from some less highly organized form.
— Charles Darwin
Another legend claims that we descended from wolves - and that the wolves are our sisters still.
— Stephenie Meyer
He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all.
— Thomas Carlyle
city." As they descended, Eliza
— Margaret Bradham Thornton
What kind of world had I descended into that nearly getting rapped had fallen to the bottom of my list of concerns?
— Denise Grover Swank
I have always looked upon the life of our Savior who descended beneath all things that He might rise above all things as an example for His followers.
— Wilford Woodruff
Leaving this Parthian shaft to rankle in Anne's stormy bosom, Marilla descended to the kitchen, grievously troubled in mind and vexed in soul.
— L.M. Montgomery
Brenda descended the great staircase step by step through alternations of dusk and rainbow.
— Evelyn Waugh
As I lay dying, the woman with the dog's eyes would not close my eyes as I descended into Hades.
— Homer
My dream went all the way back to the beginning. The rain rose into the clouds, and the animals descended the ramp.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
We will not be driven by fear ... if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men.
— Edward R. Murrow
Snicker on hearing his name: 'the gentleman who thinks we are descended from the apes.'
— Gustave Flaubert
I undertook something that not everyone may undertake: I descended into the depths, I bored into the foundations
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Upon him the contempt of three planets descended.
— Philip K. Dick
Mum and I were delighted to find out we were descended from 'bog-trotters.'
— Jasmine Guinness
For aeons past, there were many gods who descended to be humans, yet there were not many humans who ascended back to their divinity.
— Raphael Zernoff
The camp children descended upon me in a raucous, violent flurry of little bodies. I felt like tiny buffalo were stampeding over me.
— Colleen Houck
The reason you have descended into physical life is to unleash the power of your soul upon Earth.
— Caroline Myss
Having their muscles manipulated by the future king proved too much from some of the girls, who descended into fits of giggles.
— Katie Nicholl
If Charles Darwin reappeared today, he might be surprised to learn that humans are descended from viruses as well as from apes.
— Robin A. Weiss
A long silence descended. Long enough to walk to the end of a long, narrow room, look up something in a dictionary, and walk back.
— Haruki Murakami
Aren't most of you descended from pirates?
— Prince Philip
Probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.
— Charles Darwin
We were descended from royalty.
— Natalie Wood
Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
— H.L. Mencken
We are all descended from monsters.
— Tess Gerritsen
The air is cold and dusk has descended. In the distance lightning flickers and a far away rumble of thunder awakens my thoughts and makes me remember.
— Donna Lynn Hope
She, who had descended with such joy and pain, had begun her upward climb - upward, with her baby, on the steep, steep side of the mountain.
— James Baldwin
THAT SCAR. SHE DREW HER EYES FROM IT BUT THEY DESCENDED AGAIN AND YET AGAIN UNTIL SHE FELT PECULIARLY DROWNED IN THE GUILTY MARK.
— Rachel Heffington
All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.
— Will Cuppy
The air crackled with the presage of lightning, and a heavy mist descended around them.
— Stephen R. Lawhead
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
— Winston Churchill
She well knew the great architectural secret of decorating her constructions, and never descended to construct a decoration.
— Anthony Trollope
Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms.
— Charles Darwin
A gentle silence descended on them, suggestive of the flow of time.
— Haruki Murakami
That Christ's Baptism was not a mere form, but the fulfilling of all righteousness, proves that He descended into the water burdened with our sins.
— Abraham Kuyper
I had no idea what to say. A silence descended on us as sudden as the instant fresh oil is poured into a large frying pan.
— Haruki Murakami
Depression has descended like a bell jar around me.
— Kristin Hannah
The angel descended when you were least expecting it. Tracy felt something quietly go click in his despairing heart.
— Paul Russell
His mouth descended on hers in a fierce kiss.He seized, he captured.
He dominated.
And she loved every second of it. — Donna Grant
She's descended from a long line her mother listened to.
— Gypsy Rose Lee
She is descended from a long line that her mother listened to.
— Gypsy Rose Lee
Death descended like a theatrical storm over the Drakensberg Mountains, stranding me while it ran its course.
— B.G. Bowers
The hot-o-meter started ringing like crazy as hot guys descended on me, my car and Tack from two directions. Boy was I glad I curled my hair. — Kristen Ashley
I descended into solitude so thick that conversations with repairmen became anxious social occasions.
— Louisa Hall
All modern men are descended from wormlike creatures, but it shows more on some people.
— Will Cuppy
A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individuals most offended by that claim are the monkeys.
— Jacob M. Appel
Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Chances are, when we meet intelligent life forms in outer space they're going to be descended from predators.
— Michio Kaku
Then again, I am a monopolar depressive descended from monopolar depressives. That's how come I write so good.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Literature is the daughter of heaven, who descended upon earth to soften and charm all human ills.
— Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre
