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  • "Oooooh, he _burnt_ that white man, burnt him _up_, chile ... chile, he told us we descendin 'from black kings an' queens-Lawd, I didn't know it!"

    The Autobiography of Malcolm X X, Malcolm, 1925-1965 1964

  • I do think we ought to avoid anythin 'like descendin' to their level, don't you know.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 22, 1893 Various

  • The roar of the wind and the descendin 'torrents seemed terrific; he was incapable of thought or movement.

    Rose Orchid 1914

  • Take ut aisy, is ut, ye say, whin all the demons in this unholy place is jumpin 'on me every minut in places promiscuous till I can't tell where to turn, descendin' an 'vanishin' marvelious an 'onaccountable?

    Martin Hewitt, Investigator Arthur Morrison 1904

  • I fink Ai’m membrin a Brit group – an naow I fink agayn, the “hellos” wernt in descendin order.

    snaaaaaaaaaaaaake!!! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Mormons.) "You may foller me," said she, while descendin 'in the midst of a garden which opened rite before us.

    Strange Visitors Henry J. Horn

  • "I don't know how it is," said he, plaintively, "but somehow your blues air contiguous, an I feel as ef I was descendin into a depression as deep as yourn.

    Lost in the Fog James De Mille

  • The waters o 'Heaven are descendin' upon him where he sets, an 'seems to me ef he's favo'bly situated for anything it is for baptism. "

    Short Stories for English Courses Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels

  • "Ef I remember right," he said, "we'll soon be descendin ', droppin' down fast so to speak, an 'then the weather will grow a heap warmer.

    The Great Sioux Trail A Story of Mountain and Plain 1890

  • The waters o 'Heaven are descendin' upon him where he sets, an 'seems to me ef he's favo'bly situated for anything it is for baptism. "

    Sonny, a Christmas Guest Ruth McEnery Stuart 1886

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