descend

Evening was descending on Athens.
Le soir commençait à tomber sur Athènes.
On July 13, 1935, he was descending on the Dease River in the company of his bishop, Emile Bunoz.
Le 13 juillet 1935, il descend la rivière Dease en compagnie de son évêque, Mgr Emile Bunoz.
Between the top part of the wall or adarve and the sloping plane that was descending to the pit, was placing a molding of semicircular profile known as cord.
Entre la partie supérieure de la muraille ou adarve et le plan incliné qui descendait à la fosse, se plaçait une moulure de profil semi-circulaire connue comme cordon.
To protect this core of the city there was constructed a wall that from the tower and the barbican was descending for the hillside up to the surrounding areas of the Rivillas.
Pour protéger ce noyau de la ville on a construit un pisé qui depuis la tour et la barbacane descendait par le versant jusqu'aux environs du Rivillas.
One day as he was descending a turbulent river in a small bark canoe, accompanied by Father Hercule Clément and an Amerindian, the strong current began pointing them towards sure disaster.
Un jour quil descendait une rivière tumultueuse dans un petit canot d’écorce, en compagnie du père Hercule Clément et d’un Amérindien, le courant les emporte à coup sûr vers l’abîme.
As I was descending the hill, I tripped on a stone.
Alors que je descendais la colline, j'ai trébuché sur une pierre.
Even though I was descending, it looked like I was climbing due to the additional effort.
Même si j’étais en pente descendante, on aurait dit que je montais car je devais fournir un effort supplémentaire.
Arthur Duray picked up the barometer, which was broken, and realized that it had only worked when the Bleriot plane was descending to one thousand feet.
Arthur Duray ramassa le baromètre qui était cassé et put se rendre compte qu’il avait travaillé seulement pendant que le monoplan Blériot était en train de descendre à mille mètres d’altitude.
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