Definition of Descending

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Definition of Descending
	Descending of Descend Of or pertaining to descent; moving downwards. Related Definitions: Descend, Descent, Downwards, Moving, Of, Or, Pertaining, To

Descending Quotations

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
Saint Augustine

Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!
Daniel Boone

Owing to the difficulty of obtaining horses, Mr. Henry returns from this place. In descending the Mississippi I will request him to pay his respects to you.
Zebulon Pike

I explained I wanted to descend as quickly as possible to camp IV in order to warm myself and gather a supply of hot drink and oxygen in the event I might need to go back up the mountain to assist descending climbers.
Anatoli Boukreev

Obviously this is the world descending into worse and worse standards of targeting civilians both in state violence in Iraq, Gaza and so on and the terrorist retaliation.
Clare Short

After clearing 9 metres of the descending passage, in about the middle of the afternoon, we came upon a second sealed doorway, which was almost the exact replica of the first.
Howard Carter

I said to Scott that the ascent seemed to be going slowly and that I was concerned descending climbers could possibly run out of oxygen before their return to camp IV.
Anatoli Boukreev

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
Amy Lowell

They saw a Dream of Loveliness descending from the train.
Charles Godfrey Leland

Descending Translations

descending in German is absteigend, abstammend, herunterkommend
descending in Spanish is descendiente
descending in Swedish is minskande

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