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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes.
1916.
Descend
Descended like a wolf on the fold.
Anonymous
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Descends like the foot of a crow.
Arabic
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Dryden, descending to such game, was like an eagle stooping to catch flies.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Would no more descend from his calm than a bronze statue from its pedestal.
Francisque Sarcey
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Descending
Like the spring whose breath is blending
All blasts of fragrance into one.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The light of speech descends like a tongue of the Pentecost.
Bayard Taylor
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Complaints of times when merit wants reward
Descend like similes from bard to bard.
William Whitehead
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