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Meanings of downward step in English

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Usage of downward step in English
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Claire asked, suddenly, as she drew away from the first downward step.
The Blood Red Dawn
2
An enormous downward step is in the process of taking place.
Keeper: one house, three generations, and a journey into alzheim...
3
She thinks it involves the whole Terrace in a downward step.
The Pleasant Street Partnership: A Neighborhood Story
4
He felt Dan take a downward step, and his head whirled around and around.
Tess of the Storm Country
5
Such practices are a downward step, not an upward one.
Clairvoyance and Occult Powers
6
Why then take any thought to check the downward step?
The Corporation of London, Its Rights and Privileges
7
But it seems that one more downward step remained me; and that step I took.
The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and might...
8
It was, although not appearing so at the time, my first downward step on the path that leads to destruction.
Bab: A Sub-Deb
9
Knowing that every downward step was leading me rapidly toward a determination of my fate, I could scarcely control my emotions.
Daybreak; A Romance of an Old World
10
Arnold's first downward step was taken months before he knew Margaret Shippen, as Sir Henry Clinton's papers have now most clearly shown.
Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker / Sometime Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel on ...
11
The relief, she knew, was another downward step; but presently she would find courage to climb back again up to the sure ground.
The Odd Women
12
Much better if he could have concluded life as a true bug instead of being fully conscious, each hideous, downward step of the way.
The Incredible Shrinking Man
13
But the recovery of the downward steps is very difficult.
North America — Volume 2
14
But the downward steps had destroyed his will, his self-control, his manliness, his virtue.
The Wonders of Prayer / A Record of Well Authenticated and Wonde...
15
Then, after I took just a few more downward steps, the hard surface fractured underfoot.
Climbing Magazine
16
It was gravel on rock bottom, tortuous, but open, with infrequent and shallow downward steps.
The Rainbow Trail
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Downward step across language varieties
United Kingdom
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