It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
She's descended from a long line her mother listened to.
A penumbra of sombre dignity has descended over his reputation.
The cloud that descended on Black Rock on Monday was not for the past but the future. How much will this debacle chill the pursuit of other risky investigations?
Some folks seem to have descended from the chimpanzee much later than others.
The air crackled with the presage of lightning, and a heavy mist descended around them.
The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her from a plump active little woman with a neatly-turned foot and ankle into something as vast and august as a natural phenomenon. She had accepted this submergence as philosohpically as all her other trials, and now, in extreme old age, was rewarded by presenting to her mirror an almost unwrinkled expanse of firm pink and white flesh, in the centre of which the traces of a small face survived as if awaiting excavation.
To Harmodius, descended from the ancient Harmodius, when he reviled Iphicrates [a shoemaker's son] for his mean birth, "My nobility," said he, "begins in me, but yours ends in you.
The peace and beauty of a spring day had descended upon the earth like a benediction.
It's better to have won & lost than to have won, stopped trying, & descended into alcoholism.
Aren't most of you descended from pirates?
Upon him the contempt of three planets descended.
Part of the reason the Savior suffered in Gethsemane was so that he would have an infinite compassion for us as we experience our trials and tribulations. Through his suffering in Gethsemane, the Savior became qualified to be the perfect judge. Not one of us will be able to approach him on the Judgment Day and say, ‘You don’t know what it was like. ’ He knows the nature of our trials better than we do, for he ‘descended below them all.
I am a monopolar depressive descended from monopolar depressives. That's how come I write so good.
This is my life, I thought. . . I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil; I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
People still don't get how astounding Darwinism is. People think what shocked everybody was that Charles Darwin seemed to be saying we had descended from apes.
Mum and I were delighted to find out we were descended from 'bog-trotters. '
No man saw the building of the New Jerusalem, the workmen crowded together, the unfinished walls and unpaved streets; no man heard the clink of trowel and pickaxe; it descended out of heaven from God.
All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to trace the ancestry of Native American writer Louise Erdrich back to 438 A. D. We found that Queen Noor is descended from royalty, and that's before she married King Hussein of Jordan.
We are all descended from monsters.