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  • Seeing last year's collection was extremely exciting given the fact that few co-branded partnerships in this industry have strived to hit the technical mark that only a brand such as Descente can achieve.

    Hypebeast 2009

  • Chief among these was "La Grande Descente," the distinctive stairway that led down into the first-class dining saloon.

    When the Going Was Good Martin Rubin 2011

  • Descente aux enfers/traduit de l'anglais par Pierre Alien.

    The Nobel Prize in Literature 2007 - Bio-bibliography 2007

  • Sports-apparel maker Descente is working on a glove that uses battery-powered heating technology.

    Braving the Cold Cycle 2007

  • Descente has a soft material on its winter gloves that cuts down on chafing when wiping runny noses, a common problem on winter rides.

    Braving the Cold Cycle 2007

  • Down went the sun and down, not diving steeply, but passing northward as it sank, and then suddenly daylight and the expansive warmth of daylight had gone altogether, and the index of the statoscope quivered over to Descente.

    The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

  • His business interests, represented by Kenneth John Read Consulting, include promotional work with Coca-Cola, Bolle Solomon & Descente amongst several others.

    Lillehammer '94—The Importance of the Olympics to Canada 1994

  • [Page 79] 1 For further contemporary accounts, see The Cornwallis Correspondence, vol.ii. pp. 402 to 410; also An Impartial Relation of the Military Operations in consequence of the Landing of the French Troops, by an Officer under Lord Cornwallis; Notice Historique sur la Descente des Francais, par L.O. Fontaine (Adjutant-General to General Humbert); also Saunders's Newsletter and Faulkner's Journal of that date.

    Maria Edgeworth 1905

  • The latter had an ivory plate bearing "statoscope" and other words in French, and a little indicator quivered and waggled, between Montee and Descente.

    The War in the Air 1906

  • "Frappe a Londres" is printed on one part of it, and "La Descente dans Angleterre" upon another.

    Through the Magic Door Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

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