descending passage

The descending passage will be widened, and the big engines brought down.

Next they followed a descending passage, that burrowed far through the rock.

This would place the entrance to the lower descending passage within the masonry of the pyramid.

His immediate suspicion was that the vessel covered a hole - or even a descending passage.

This ends in a descending passage before Section A is replayed.

Both sections end with descending passages in thirty-second notes.

At the bottom of this descending passage is a suite of chambers, connected to each other by a further corridor.

The descending passage was probably clogged along its length by large blocks of limestone that thieves have broken up.

It is possible to enter the Descending Passage from this point, but access is usually forbidden.

A seemingly triumphant climax is cut short by a descending passage depicting the collapse of the castle, and the music falls quiet.

In certain twentieth-century music, however, it became common systematically to use the ascending form for both ascending and descending passages.

The system comes to an end at a wall of sand and boulders, which can be bypassed to a smaller descending passage reaching a sump.

At first, the burial chamber was to be placed deep underground, with a descending passage and an initial room being carved out of the living rock.

Hewn through solid rock, the descending passage was irregular, with many crevices that afforded concealment.

It contains two descending passages, one of them ending in a dead end with a niche which contained pieces of ritualistic furniture.

A trumpet playing a descending passage with a Wah-wah mute to signify a failure or mistake.

And opening from the long descending passage I found chambers in which were paintings beautiful to behold, and of all manner of things.

The entrance to the substructure is located on the pyramid's northern side and consists of a descending passage leading to a T-shaped chamber.

Above the hellishly littered steps arched a descending passage seemingly chiselled from the solid rock, and conducting a current of air.

The upper descending passage is clad in granite and descends to join with the horizontal passage to the burial chamber.

Fragments of granite found by Petrie in the Descending Passage may have come from these now vanished doors.

During the next stage of excavation, Goneim discovered a descending passage to the north side which led to a gallery blocked with rubble and masonry.

This is the start of a vertical shaft which follows an irregular path through the masonry of the pyramid to join the Descending Passage.

They had hit a slightly wider part of the now steeply descending passage when the wind soughing past them from ahead suddenly picked up and became a gale.

The Great Pyramid of Giza is the only pyramid in Egypt known to contain both ascending and descending passages.