“Mercifully, the plane's ascent stole her into the clouds, and the world below yielded to white sky.”

“For all the family's attempted ascent through the ranks of the nobility, it did not survive.”

“From this village, our road lay up a steep ascent to the northward.”

“He is certain that Augustus Caesar had had an ascendant of Virgo rather than the Capricorn ascendant proffered by Suetonius.”

“He maintained his ascendancy in the third round, landing a hard left hook which opened another cut, this time on Williams' right eye-lid.”

“Roman classicism had inspired Palladian architecture which was favoured by the Whig ascendancy in Britain.”

“His critics say he should resign because he has lost the moral ascendancy to govern and to save the plummeting economy from collapse.”

“One or more ascenders hold the cavers weight while the unweighted ascender is moved up the rope.”

“With the help of a mechanical ascender, guides and novice climbers creep up ropes like inchworms into the forest canopy.”

“Within each triplet set, the items were matched for rhyme and whether the initial letter was an ascender, descender, or x-height.”

“After witnessing his ascension into the skies, the disciples returned to Jerusalem.”

“Relief from military threats to the west had come through his marriage to Princess Aryenis of Lydia not long after his ascension to the throne.”

“First there is pulverisation, then solidification, then solution with ascension and distillation, and a melting and mixing together.”

“Then he would hastily take down his ascensionist outfit and, swearing at himself, put it on.”

“Second ascensionist Steve Reid reports the crag to be of good, rough rock, although further cleaning would make the climbs more enjoyable.”

“But the acropolis has a long and tumultuous history surrounding the brief ascendance of classical Athens.”

“The pivot of this change was the Enlightenment, a time when the rational took ascendance over the mystical.”

“The election of Emanuel, in other words, could be tantamount to the ascendance of a third Daley.”

“The ascendency of Hardwicke's position was aided by two factors in addition to Fortescue's retirement.”

“The unmitigated disaster that administration produced paved the way for Republican ascendency.”

“These megacity mayors reflect and embody the ascendency of cities in a world of dysfunctional nation-states.”

“The relationship may be direct, as in the case of the link between ascendants and descendants.”

“Its ringleader is Franck Biancheri, a Frenchman from the South of France with Italian ascendants, who has dedicated his life to Europe.”

“This prohibition extends to their spouses, ascendants and descendants up to the second degree of consanguinity.”

“Besides, has not aerostatic science made great progress since the ascensions of Blanchard?”

“So, having nothing else to do, I joined a circus again, and made my balloon ascensions until the earthquake caught me.”

“From the chimneys of the farmhouses thin ascensions of blue smoke signaled preparations for a day's peaceful toil.”

“Well, I like ITC Garmond because of the large x-height and shortened ascenders and descenders.”

“I flex my fingers and grab the two metal ascenders clamped to my climbing rope.”

“One or more ascenders hold the cavers weight while the unweighted ascender is moved up the rope.”

“The sport's history is often described in terms of first ascents, the conquering of previously unscaled mountains.”

“On one of his quick ascents during one of the many dogfights that day, Roll's wingman signaled his squadron leader.”

“He and several buddies pulled off multiple single-day ascents of Yosemite routes that most rock jocks complete in three to five days.”