descent upon

A curtain that halts in its descent upon the actors endangers the effect of the entire Play.

Seven French privateers made a descent upon the islands on the coast, committing horrible excesses.

A descent upon Corunna however completed what Drake called his "singeing of the Spanish king's beard."

Helen hurried in, wiping her hands on her apron and rescuing the baby from an ignominious descent upon her nose on the way.

Such is the simplest version of the simplest story connected with the descent upon Dearsley.