When the carriage arrived, servants would rush out the front doors and hold the horses while the guests descended.

To arrive at the eating area, guests descend a precipitous staircase from the main house and then navigate a serpentine pathway illuminated by more than 2,000 beeswax candles.

As guests descend a flight of stairs they are greeted with banners of samurai warriors.

One by one the guests descended to the valley.

He'd seen how distracted his gregarious chief engineer could become when guests descended upon the engine room in which she took so much justifiable pride.

As the guests flocked down the steps and descended on the cold buffet the Master of Ceremonies was in non-stop voice, introducing those who, by reason of importance or simple absent-mindedness, had turned up late.

There would be no smell of food in the hall as the guests descended from the drawing room, just that pleasant pot-pourri and beeswax smell of a well maintained household.

In reality the guests didn't descend at all; the walls of the room were raised by a large electric winch and the floor of the room shaken by pneumatic actuators.

And when his honored father had died, he had made his own pilgrimage after the funeral rites here, down the narrow rocky path which he and all the guests at his second wedding descended many years later, to the shore of the lake.

Dinner was announced, and with the dazzled eyes of newly hatched chicks, the guests descended the gran' staircase past waiters dressed as Cossacks and, outside the Temple of Dendur, violinists in black tie.