His father, a civil engineer, descended from Dalmatian royalty.

Harper watches helplessly as her father descends into alcoholism while the rest of the family struggle to keep going.

His father descended stiffly from his saddle and came towards him, arms outstretched.

From his coronation, all real power was transferred to Philip, as his father slowly descended into senility.

Her father descended from the physician on the Mayflower, and was a Baptist minister and the family moved his family a good deal.

He and his father descended the long, wide stairway of burnished steel.

My father and brother descended the stairs, all smiles.

A ram found caught in a nearby thicket is offered as a substitute sacrifice, and father and son descend the mountain and head back home.

His father was descending the ladder from the roof.

Her parents' marriage was dissolving and both her mother and father had descended into drug abuse.