Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Descend

Descended like a wolf on the fold.
—Anonymous

Descends like the foot of a crow.
—Arabic

Dryden, descending to such game, was like an eagle stooping to catch flies.
—Oliver Goldsmith

Would no more descend from his calm than a bronze statue from its pedestal.
—Francisque Sarcey

Descending …
Like the spring whose breath is blending
All blasts of fragrance into one.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

The light of speech descends like a tongue of the Pentecost.
—Bayard Taylor

Complaints of times when merit wants reward
Descend like similes from bard to bard.
—William Whitehead