Word: descending
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...danger that a well propagandized new Calif would become the focus of troublesome "holy wars" might well cause the following Great Powers to "take steps": Great Britain, if the "Green Mantle of the Prophet" should descend upon King Fuad of Egypt, King Feisal of Irak or the Aga Kahn; Italy, if Sheik Achmet of the Senussites should receive the "Sacred Sword" and begin swishing it near Italian Tripoli; France, if the "Holy Standard" (the third emblem of the Calif) should be unfurled in the Riff by Abd-El-Krim, or by one of the Sultans in the vicinity of Syria...
...Biggers sees their farewell embrace when Abner's work-gang moves away, and the blasting of Nessie's fame is simply a matter of a few street conversations and telephone calls. Brother Northcutt turns out his masked inquisitors, and Nessie not being found, the bastinadoes of righteousness descend upon Abner when he returns to marry the girl. Nessie, seeking refuge under an express train, is rescued and married by the village infidel, Belshue the jeweler, a mournful, middle-aged creature, who was the chief object of her missionary work before her downfall...
...Tailless mice, upon which, as a race, there periodically comes an urge to descend to the sea and drown by the million...
...these holy precincts is a nun. The way of the spirit is no longer attractive to her and she sets her feet in the ways of the world, shedding her sacred garments and going forth with a gay knight. Then does the Blessed Virgin descend from her high place, don the robes of the nun and take the nun's place in the convent. Then the people weep and cry out, for their sacred image has been lost...
...airplane will fly forward or backward. . . . If the power fails, its wings act as a parachute and enable it to descend in safety to the ground. . . . I have labored seven years, with only the capital which my wife and I could save. . . . She helped by working as a schoolteacher. . . . Now I think that M. Painlevé will help me with my great invention...