Which word in this excerpt from HG Wells's The War of the Worlds provides a context clue to the meaning of the word descended? I was at home at that hour and writing in my study, and although my French windows face towards Ottershaw and the blind was up (for I loved
in those days to look up at the night skyl. I saw nothing of it. Yet this “strangest” of all things that ever came to earth from outer space must have
fallen while I was sitting there, visible to me had I only looked up as it “passed”. Some of those who saw its flight say it travelled with a hissing
sound. I myself heard nothing of that. Many people in Berkshire, Surrey, and Middlesex must have seen the fall of it, and, at most have thought
that another meteorite had |descended|. No one seems to have “troubled” to look for the “fallen” mass that night.