descending line

They dropped along the descending line until they were once more at the ocean bottom.

The boy shoved the man toward the descending line and followed, sighing deeply.

Descending lines scratched deeply into the rock as part of a long forgotten boyhood game.

The crowd interrupted the orchestra's descending line with applause.

The descending line of light reached the equator; at the same moment, the outward extension also ceased.

The descending lines in the strings illustrate this decay.

At another session, he said that in playing a steeply descending line, the players should "imagine falling from a great height."

The interstices are covered with fine pink or yellowish obliquely descending lines.

A thāt, unlike a raga, does not have separate ascending and descending lines.

The civil laws prohibited any marriage between parents and children, either in the ascending or descending line ad infinitum.

A monstrous bird, the glider slid easily through the air, two hundred yards out from the descending line of the cliff.

Sighs, tears, swoons and death itself are described in descending lines and dark harmonizations.

This was also understood and underlined by the addition "men and women in descending line in infinity".

The descending line of burning acacia, fig and baobab looked like an orange necklace, choking the river in smoke.

The solid slugs hit Taz's windshield, stitched a half dozen dark splotches across it in a descending line from left to right.

Here, three sopranos gradually elongate the canon until what began as a descending line ends up as a succession of drones.

After a descending line by the bassoon and low brass, the woodwinds and trumpets join with a higher A-flat.

You next proceed to form marriages, both in ascending and in descending lines, with cards on the outside of both groups (Rule I).

The band seethes and pummels in songs based on minor chords and descending lines that threaten to drag the singer down with them.

She could weight lines by sheer phrasing, rather than by tone, investing descending lines with the inexorable pull of gravity itself.

A rising line indicates accelerando, a descending line represents ritardando, and the line vanishes altogether when there is a rest.

These three tracks, plus the Monkish "Wig Wise", with its "angular, descending line", were first recorded for this album.

There are several descending lines of the Cyprus branch still living on the island including a line descending from Maria Caridi (c1780-1870).

This is the true meaning of "all his present and future legitimate posterity, and their heirs' heirs, men and women in descending line, in infinity".

The title song, which is about suicide, begins with a descending line on acoustic guitar mixed with buzzing insects and burbling, tape-reversed keyboards.