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1. Allcock stood on the platform as fellow travelers disembarked, some having reached their destination, and watched the hawkers descend on them, extolling the best hotels and restaurants, the finest tours of the city, the most affordable saloons, the shows, the gambling, and on and on
2. As the big blue and yellow flailing brushes descend on the car, I pat Sam’s head, she’s not too sure about this bit and cowers down on the seat
3. expected his captor’s hand to descend on him at any
4. “Quick I’m going to open three cans of apricot jam and throw them down the trench when these shit house flies descend on them shovel your grub down before they get back
5. “How dare you turn up dressed that way I’ve a good mind to have you slung in a cell and brought up on charges? Well what have you got to say in your defence and it had better be good?” I could feel the black mood begin to descend on me but I thought careful you could be shot for clouting a fucking wind bag like this Captain so I said
6. Gary felt a large hand descend on his shoulder
7. Conal stood awkwardly, feeling a coldness descend on the office
8. He needed a story to release officially that plugged all the holes, created no difficulties with Nicaragua and didn’t cause the American DEA to descend on Limon like a swarm of locust
9. arranged for his tonsure, a great calamity would descend on to them
10. Meanwhile, he would take the other tumen into the hills and at the right moment (once the preponderance of their forces were aligned against us) descend on the other valley, the Moche, and smash his way to the capital (Chan Chan)
11. 16 Then Adam let his blessing descend on Seth, and on his children, and on all his children's children
12. 28 And they told Enoch what they had seen, and Enoch said to them, On my account does this horse descend on earth; the time is come when I must go from you and I shall no more be seen by you
13. A common man, who tried to match an extraordinary and gifted musician that I was; so, to put him in place, I said, “There are lakhs of people singing Carnatic music; and more than twenty-five lakhs descend on the city for the music festival in December,” said I in a scholarly tone
14. 16 Then Adam let his blessing descend on Seth and on his children and on all his children's children
15. 28 And they told Enoch what they had seen and Enoch said to them On my account does this horse descend on earth; the time is come when I must go from you and I shall no more be seen by you
16. Today, hundreds of thousands of visitors descend on the place every year, so there's good accommodation, caravan and camping sites, a craft village, shops, ferries to the Orkneys, wild-life tours, exhibitions and museums
17. When the opulence of the Occident caught their eyes, the gods themselves thought it fit to desert their abode and descend on the West
18. She stayed out of my reach, her blade extended as if she expected the Hordes of Hell to descend on us
19. He allowed silence to descend on the hall again before he continued
20. As Commodore Nousma was trying desperately to deal with these problems and as ground-fired missiles kept exploding against the hull of the battleship, King Stan felt gloom descend on him
21. I have no wish to see a wave of anthropologists and historians descend on these kids with the goal of studying them like lab rats
22. Darkness would soon descend on them so they would have to land there, whilst he could still see
23. Feeling a chill descend on her, Ingrid hurried to fly over the next set of hills and then drop down behind them
24. Since the police could very possibly descend on the cabaret tonight and since Frank may still be alive and inside the establishment, any overt display of magical or supernatural powers was out of the question, as she didn’t want to attract undue attention on her
25. ‘’You’re right! Soldiers would probably descend on this bar with guns blazing
26. It wouldn’t do to have a dozen or more trolls descend on them as they were raiding their cave
27. Once settled on Earth or in a space installation, then expect a crowd of swindlers and fraudsters to descend on you and try stealing your gold
28. This of course has to stay confidential: I have no wish to see an army of reporters descend on this clinic for my child’s birth
29. pyre lie in wait to descend on the children
30. Didn’t my heart descend on my hand to vent its love on her frame! Oh, how it rushed to my mouth seeing her disjointed! Why did she choose to punish me with banishment for the failings of my love inspired by her own looks? How she thought I deserved the deserts! Why didn’t she pardon me, finding me repentant?’
31. I say on that night, even you can say, at the moment of getting these spiritual sights, the truth will be printed on the heart of this believer, and all the realities of faith and of the Holy Qur’an will descend on it and thus he shall perceive the purpose and the wisdom behind the Qur’anic verses
32. “Therefore tell them to act at leisurely,”: when the unbelievers heard of God’s warning of torture, they asked to let it descend on them without delay
33. Raindrops descend on land and sea, blowing where they whist
34. Think: I knew nothing about Harriet Westbrook and her tragic life and death; I had never heard of Ejmilia Viviani; of Mary; of her whose name was Eliza, but who soared aloft in the sunshine of Shelley's admiration re-christened Portia, only presently to descend once more into the font and come out luridly as the Brown Demon
35. His dream was to be left in peace to write his verses; to get away into some sweet impossible wilderness, and sit there singing with as much of the spirit of Omar Kayyam as could reasonably be expected to descend on a youth who only drank water
36. It seems impossible for her to merely stand there and watch, as in but a moment one of the creatures could descend onto the ground and take her into its web, but somehow she is able to maintain hold on her emotions and merely watches as the creature wraps the moth in its tomb
37. hand descend on his shoulder
38. Conscious of the many Souls about to descend on him from all sides, there was
39. “The FBI is saying that as many as one-and-a-half million Jews are expected to descend on the city this weekend,” the carefully coifed reporter said with a concerned expression, while the wind blew his jacket around his face
40. Thousands, and as many as one million similar sympathizers, all American citizens of the Jewish faith, intend to descend on the nation’s capital for the avowed purpose of compelling the United States government and its President to take actions in support of the State of Israel that the President has already determined are not in the best interests of the United States
41. It is true there were short and fleeting moments, when the fiery eyes of Magua were seen glittering, like the fabled organs of the basilisk through the dusty wreath by which he was enveloped, and he read by those short and deadly glances the fate of the combat in the presence of his enemies; ere, however, any hostile hand could descend on his devoted head, its place was filled by the scowling visage of Chingachgook
42. By the time I crossed into the Mount Hood Wilderness twenty minutes later, I had entered the forest again and I felt the silence descend on me
43. intelligence shock troops descend on her? It sounded … well, how did it sound? It sounded totally off the wall
44. Now that the news was out, the Washington Post and the New York Times and a whole pack of serious American journalists would descend on the story, and it would be impossible to anticipate what they might dig up
45. She knew that she and Frank were already in the Yankees’ black books, because of Tony, and disaster might descend on them at any hour
46. I’d hate to have a gaggle of reporters descend on the Cicciaros’ lawn
47. In that grand order of battle in which Captain Ahab would probably marshal his forces to descend on the whales, these three headsmen were as captains of companies
48. Admitting for argument's sake, that the Sandusky or Maume descend only 100 feet, then the surface of the lake is 100 feet higher than the Ohio river