From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.
October of 2011, Occupy protestors descended upon McPherson Square, and they decided to stay. Despite the clear language of the law, these protestors camped at McPherson Square with the definition of camping being sleeping or preparing to sleep.
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.
We were descended from royalty.
She is descended from a long line that her mother listened to.
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.