Pour years ago it had been soprano; as he grew and matured, it would de - scend to the tenor range.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unicorn Point]

She turned to see that he seemed a bit blurry-a green haze was starting to de-scend upon the bridge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Demons Of Air And Darkness]

He moved his knife hand gently, not quite tossing it, just feeling the scend of its superb balance in his palm.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Than Human]

What did you think of the scend in “Sideways” where he gets smashed in the face with the motorcycle helmet?.    From Wordnik.com.  [I saw four good movies this week] Reference

His pictures in the Vernon Gallery will not preserve his name, nor will his portraits viewed as works of Art. His name will scend in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850] Reference

The volunteers and military personell from my community that are already on the scend never stopped to ask the racial makeup of those who needed help.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » By the Numbers: In Katrina’s Wake, Race and Class Largely Ignored] Reference

Big Red had tried sailing out of this soup without success, and the Wing Riders had been forced to de - scend to the makeshift rafts to wait out the front's passing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ilse Witch]

But although he does not oppose the artistic imagination to the analytical activity of the intellect, his Platonism does not tran - scend aestheticism, as the intellectual process itself is assimilated by him to creativity and is not recognized as the discovery of an eternal order.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

But my object is not to be minute: nor can I dcr scend to calculation.    From Wordnik.com.  [An address to the Right Hon. William Pitt, &c. &c. &c. on some parts of his administration : occasioned by his proposal of the triple assessment, in the House of Commons, in November 1797] Reference

Approaching, you de - scend a long hill leading to a bridge over the mill-race.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the war in the Southern department of the United States] Reference

The immense volume of water thrown forward by the last scend of the ship had burst the lee door of the forecastle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nigger of the Narcissus] Reference

However, that the least waqt of evi - dence may not be pretended, I am willing to de - scend to a more curious demonstration of the truth of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cicero's Five Books De Finibus: Or, Concerning the Last Object of Desire and Aversion] Reference

I had allmost forgot to let yow vnderstand that on teuesday the 28 of Marche I met at Beury Sir W. Spring; he asked how to scend a letter to you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society] Reference

He was cruel enough to in - flict the severest punishment, artful enough to de - scend to the lowest trickery, and obdurate enough to be insensible to the voice of a reproving conscience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave] Reference

Beyond the obvious reasons -- authority and control of the purse strings -- most say they do this because supply-chain improvements always tran-scend functions and high-level endorsements are critical to their success.    From Wordnik.com.  [Purchasing - Top Stories] Reference

Norfolk, for term of hir lyfe, according to the purport of indentures the same shall de - scend; remainder to my sonne Edmond and to the heires of his body; and in defaulte to the right heires of me the said Sir Tho« mas Wyndham.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical] Reference

I know well nuff dat de ole devul is mad as a tempest 'bout my bein 'here; he knows dat my call ter preach kums frurn Gord, and dat's wat meks' im so mad wen he sees Jasper 'scend de pulpit, fur he knows dat de people is gwine ter hear a messige straight frum heaven.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Jasper: The Unmatched Negro Philosopher and Preacher] Reference

The Crown Preserve Co. sent us a quantity of patent fuel which stowed beautifully as a flooring to the lower hold, and all our provision cases were thus kept well up out of the bilge water which was bound to scend to and fro if we made any quantity of water, as old wooden ships usually do.    From Wordnik.com.  [South with Scott] Reference

No sound whatever was to be heard on board save the "swish" of the water alongside, the low roar of the bow-wave as she plunged through it and turned it aside from her bows, the weird crying of the wind through her maze of rigging aloft, and the occasional "cheep" of parral or block-sheave to the 'scend of the ship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess] Reference

The wind was making weird, wild music as it swept through the tautly-strained rigging; and the topgallant and royal-masts were whipping and bending like fishing-rods with every pitch and 'scend of the ship, while the straining canvas, towering away aloft toward the dusky heavens, stood as firm and steady as though moulded in iron.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voyage of the Aurora] Reference

De-scend '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Speller; Containing Exercises for Oral Spelling; also, Sentences for Silent Spelling by Writing from Dictation. In Which the Representative Words and the Anomalous Words of the English Language are so Classified as to Indicate Their Pronunciation, and to be Fixed in the Memory by Association.] Reference

De-scend 'ant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Speller; Containing Exercises for Oral Spelling; also, Sentences for Silent Spelling by Writing from Dictation. In Which the Representative Words and the Anomalous Words of the English Language are so Classified as to Indicate Their Pronunciation, and to be Fixed in the Memory by Association.] Reference

As-cet'ic, ex-cres'cence, pro-bos'cis, pu-tres'cence, qui-es'cence, tran-scend'ent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Speller; Containing Exercises for Oral Spelling; also, Sentences for Silent Spelling by Writing from Dictation. In Which the Representative Words and the Anomalous Words of the English Language are so Classified as to Indicate Their Pronunciation, and to be Fixed in the Memory by Association.] Reference

Pronounce the word, sud-jest '. sus-pect, sus-pense, tran-scend, trans gress, un-less, por-tent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Speller; Containing Exercises for Oral Spelling; also, Sentences for Silent Spelling by Writing from Dictation. In Which the Representative Words and the Anomalous Words of the English Language are so Classified as to Indicate Their Pronunciation, and to be Fixed in the Memory by Association.] Reference