It was a smooth descent, as though the plains below were rising up to meet the escarpment, now invisible in the rain behind them.

But the plane continued a smooth, steady and rapid descent, until finally the voice was counting off, "fifty, forty, thirty, twenty."

She got into the lift and its descent, though smooth, made her sink toward the floor.

"Deck eight," he ordered, and the turbolift began its smooth descent.

The elevator's smooth descent ended with shocking abruptness.

After a fairly smooth descent, the plane broke through the clouds roughly four hundred feet up.

She stares, slack jawed, at the sprite's powerful launch, then its smooth descent.

She began a smooth descent to the tabletop ice field just north of the base.

The turbolift thrummed as it began its swift, smooth descent.

There was another, gentler downward tug, and then the Marble began its smooth descent down the excavated shaft to the dig face.