Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
I don't want to be memorized for everyone. I want to stay real,endless and inchangeable for my parents, kids and their descendants.
Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?
Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
We can't allow ourselves to descend down the rabbit hole of unbridled partisanship for partisan sake.
Upon descending our threaded words on the web by a steep and hazardous precipice of readers requires constant review.
O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man gets access to the ear of God.
If we descended from space aliens, that's just as viable as Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, as far as I'm concerned.
I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into their classroom.
All Americans are either immigrants or descendants of ancestors who came from somewhere else, including Native Americans. We should all respect and admire immigrants.
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
Perhaps I did nothing because I don't have enough fear to be a good parent.
Night descended on Roarhaven like a woolly blanket of blackness with holes in it that were the stars.
Death descended like a theatrical storm over the Drakensberg Mountains, stranding me while it ran its course.
The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.
In all religions, the quickening spirit has been symbolically represented as a bird. At the baptism, when Jesus' body was in the water, the Spirit of Christ descended into it as a dove.
Difficult as it was to hear, slavery has benefited descendants like me - I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us.
