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Meanings of downward step in английском

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Usage of downward step in английском
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Claire asked, suddenly, as she drew away from the first downward step.
The Blood Red Dawn
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An enormous downward step is in the process of taking place.
Keeper: one house, three generations, and a journey into alzheim...
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She thinks it involves the whole Terrace in a downward step.
The Pleasant Street Partnership: A Neighborhood Story
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He felt Dan take a downward step, and his head whirled around and around.
Tess of the Storm Country
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Such practices are a downward step, not an upward one.
Clairvoyance and Occult Powers
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Why then take any thought to check the downward step?
The Corporation of London, Its Rights and Privileges
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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...
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It was, although not appearing so at the time, my first downward step on the path that leads to destruction.
Bab: A Sub-Deb
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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
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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 ...
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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
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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
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But the recovery of the downward steps is very difficult.
North America — Volume 2
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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...
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Then, after I took just a few more downward steps, the hard surface fractured underfoot.
Climbing Magazine
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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
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