"A penumbra of somber dignity has descended over……" — James Atlas

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• From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. — Winston Churchill
• This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself. — Juvenal
• We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and… — Evelyn Underhill
• From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the… — Winston Churchill
• On Sunday mornings, as the dawn burned into day, swarms of gulls descended on the uncollected trash, hovering and dropping… — Edward Conlon
• She's descended from a long line her mother listened to. — Gypsy Rose Lee
• When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he… — Epicurus
• It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Now a Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who… — Lenny Bruce
• When they saw me in my space suit and the parachute dragging alongside as I walked, they started to back… — Yuri Gagarin
• There is no more reason to believe that man descended from an inferior animal than there is to believe that… — William Jennings Bryan
• For more than half a century, during which kingdoms and empires have fallen, this Union has stood unshaken. The patriots… — Zachary Taylor

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