How To Use Ascend In A Sentence

The lower opening is formed by the twelfth thoracic vertebra behind, by the eleventh and twelfth ribs at the sides, and in front by the cartilages of the tenth, ninth, eighth, and seventh ribs, which ascend on either side and form an angle, the subcostal angle, into the apex of which the xiphoid process projects. II. Osteology. 4. The Thorax
If a jewel falls into the mire, it remains as precious as before; and though dust should ascend to heaven, its former worthlessness will not be altered.
The established idea that granitoid magmas ascend through the continental crust as diapirs is being increasingly questioned by igneous and structural geologists.
February 26, 2005 03: 43 schlarb: re: Soul-Junk chronology: all of the full length records run in ascending order from 1950 through, most recently, 1958. conversely all the EP's run in decending order from 1949 through, again most recently, 1937. Not one to shy away from a challenge (Music (For Robots))
All through the service balloons ascended, but when it was over 1/3 of the balloons were unreleased.

When the gentleman who guided me through the bush left me on the side of a pali, I discovered that Kahele, though strong, gentle, and sure-footed, possesses the odious fault known as balking, and expressed his aversion to ascend the other side in a most unmistakable manner. The Hawaiian Archipelago
Amateurs can easily fill the tubes using simple agricultural tools, after which bags are arranged in a spiral that is gradually corbelled inwards as it ascends to form a dome.
His critics say he should resign because he has lost the moral ascendancy to govern and to save the plummeting economy from collapse.
She ascended the stairs quickly, aerially, as in a dream. Times, Sunday Times
But only one is a riot-grrrl guitar hero, turned NPR blogger, turned ascendant sketch comedian. ‘Portlandia’ star, guitarist Carrie Brownstein finds outlet for all her interests
At my Nativity," writes Browne in Religio Medici, "my ascendant was the water signe of Scorpius, I was borne in the Planetary hour of Saturn, and I think I have a piece of that Leaden Planet in me. Out of Novemberland
From time to time they could see the glimmer of sun on an ascending vehicle. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
The two groups have jockeyed for position ever since, with Sistani's forces in the ascendancy recently.
To "ascend the hill of the Lord" and to "stand in his holy place "means to enter into his house and find acceptance. Christianity Today
Making our way up the gently ascending road that cut its way through the forest, we saw hordes of greedy monkeys waiting for freebies.
I became delirious, and quitting that staircase, which methought it was impossible for me to reascend, I sprung forth into the void with an execration. The Paris Sketch Book
As if it were good for the oxen, and some terebinthine or other medicinal quality ascended into their nostrils. The Maine Woods
In all but the most one-sided encounters, however, the ascendancy shifts between the teams.
Mr Fournier will spend around three hours ascending in an enclosed lightweight gondola before deflating the balloon and parachuting back to earth in six minutes and 25 seconds.
The stairs would do any Scarlett O'Hara justice in that the first landing leads to a bathroom, then ascends by a further five steps to the first bedroom.
Our plan was to find a guide with a boat, then ascend 20 miles up the Río Jaqué to the heart of the national park.
After ascending the elliptical stairs past a couple small galleries, one is immediately struck by the bright orange carpet laid across most of the fourth floor.
The lingual artery may provide the following unusual branches: the superior laryngeal, the submental, and the ascending palatine arteries.
A healthy suppuration will always set in after the exhibition of Apis, provided Sulphur or a psoric taint do not gain the ascendancy. Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent
He maintained his ascendancy in the third round, landing a hard left hook which opened another cut, this time on Williams' right eye-lid.
A little in this way -- but these similes are very imperfect, and will not bear close application -- the sap rises in a tree, stealing up branch by branch; and it is then called _ascending sap_. The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals
Could this mountain metropolis be the third stop and final launching pad of the ascendency of a major civilizational power?
In places the sound of the river rises up the gravel slope, and thirsty dogs rush down for a drink and cannot reascend; should the owner go down to fetch the dog, he or she will be trapped as well.
It is easier to descend than to ascend.
If a jewel falls into the mire, it remains as precious as before; and though dust should ascend to heaven, its former worthlessness will not be altered.
High in the Alps is a monument raised in honour of a faithful guide who perished while ascending a peak to rescue a stranded tourist.
A second ascender was in the air—Newkirk aboard, clutching an aerial bomb in his arms. LEVIATHAN
The path ascended to the top of the hill
The first obvious difference from the manga is in the appearance of the central character, Deunan, who in the manga is more-or-less a regular self-capable woman with an unusual skill for violence and mayhem, but who in the anime has become a short-haired tomboy whose fighting skills ascend to the level of gravity-defying superpowers, as she is capable of backflipping over enemy gunfire in slow-motion. Archive 2007-08-01
They slowly ascended the steep path up the mountain.
Among sports we have terms like parascending and surfari, and nonce adjectives such as sportsational or swimsational which blend words with the last element of sensational.
Ascending along this road, you open a valley broad and shallow, a wide green trough of pastures and hedges merging inland into a vista of purple tints and flowing lines closing the view.
As compared to the ascending aorta, 30-50% narrowing was seen in the coarctate segment in 3 cases.
More false beams ascended the walls of the A-frame, reaching an apex perhaps thirty feet from the floor. DOUBTING THOMAS
Ascendency quantifies growth and development of an ecosystem as a product of total system throughflow and the mutual information inherent in the pattern of internal system flows.
Starting on C major, they ascend in pitch utilizing the key signatures that employ no more than four sharps or fiats.
Hither ascended a _cantonnier_ when the new road was made up the valley, and here he found chipped flints of primeval man, a polished celt, a scrap of Samian ware, and in a niche at the side sealed up with stalactite, a tiny earthenware pitcher 2-1/2 inches high, a leaden spindle-whorl, some shells, and a toy sheep-bell. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
His seventh house contains Mars while Libra is at the Ascendant containing Uranus.
The Republicans, in the face of Obama's ascendancy and the indefensibility of their policy decisions in the last eight years, have just pulled a desperation maneuver and hijacked what is perhaps the most important election in America's history by demoting it to an emotional cat-fight between pro-choice and pro-life women, over the one issue where neither side can be reasonable. Cintra Wilson: It's the Freedom, Stupid
An ascending dissection occasionally can occlude the ostium of a coronary artery and lead to myocardial infarction.
When the heart fibrillates as a result of hypothermia, the surgeon crossclamps the ascending aorta using a medium Fogarty clamp.
In the ascendent mentality, the "perfect" 24/7 mother is one who stays home to prepare only organic purees for her treasures, while endlessly washing cloth nappies and breastfeeding until the child is almost ready for school. In Praise of the Mediocre Mother
At some point we made our way to a sharply ascending tree-covered bank.
Scientists believe that diamonds ascend to the earth's surface in rare molten rock, or magma that originates at great depths.
If a jewel falls into the mire, it remains as precious as before; and though dust should ascend to heaven, its former worthlessness will not be altered.
Behind this process a broad, thin plate, the ethmoidal process, ascends to join the uncinate process of the ethmoid; from its lower border a thin lamina, the maxillary process, curves downward and lateralward; it articulates with the maxilla and forms a part of the medial wall of the maxillary sinus. II. Osteology. 5b. 6. The Inferior Nasal Concha
If a jewel falls into the mire, it remains as precious as before; and though dust should ascend to heaven, its former worthlessness will not be altered.
Being engrossed and motionless, she indicated that she saw these souls ascending to heaven.
Like an Escher print, this is music that seems to ascend infinitely over a nearly twelve-minute span.
As she ascended through the angelic ranks and was granted more power, Paris would have more energy, and she would learn how to conserve that energy.
Because of the complexity and importance of the random interests, the research about this problem is still be in the ascendant.
The "loyal opposition" now seems more interested in ensuring its "ascendency" than in serving the whole of the American people. Geoffrey R. Stone: The Republican Struggle for "Ascendency"
In company with this nerve will be seen the posterior saphena vein, L, which, commencing behind the outer ankle, ascends the mesial line of the calf to join the popliteal vein, G, in the cleft between the heads of the gastrocnemius. Surgical Anatomy
The priest, deacon and subdeacon come before the altar, and ascend to the predella; the rubrics do not say that they genuflect before doing so. Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 4.1 - Mass of Presanctified, Good Friday, Mass of the Catechumens and the Solemn Prayers
In ascending from the first floor, you are aware of space above and below you.
that idea was in the ascendant
Not only can we sing and dance to Bollywood numbers, Indian classical music and bhangra, but fusions of East and West are fast gaining the ascendancy.
This brings the word "cocktease" to new levels, none of which I'd ever planned on ascending nor am I pleased to have done so. Gawker
With the accomplishment of that grand end, said he, "our voices will ascend to Heaven over a country re-united, over a people disinthralled, and God will bless us. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860
Neither ascendeth hee in Sommer time more Northward then the foresaide place where we arriued, but was euen then descending to the South. The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253.
But the secret and symbolical hint was the harmonical nature of the soul; which, delivered from the body, went again to enjoy the primitive harmony of heaven, from whence it first descended; which, according to its progress traced by antiquity, came down by Cancer, and ascended by Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
Dear Mollie -- I was glad to know that bound with the fetters of Science, and depressed by thought, you were Struggling yet to ascend the rugged Steep -- where "Star eyed Science" and fame unfold their banners to every anxious aspirant, and under whose folds of magnitude and magnificence all alike are permitted to recumb, and recur those who have in vagrancy strayed "tracing Shadows" -- beware of Letter from Young John Allen to Mollie Houston,June 2, 1854
An earlier chapter provides the reader with background on the Norman ascendancy through the regency of Adelaide.
The pivot of this change was the Enlightenment, a time when the rational took ascendance over the mystical.
Ascending a mountain on skis requires bindings with a heel release, and ‘skins’ made of mohair or nylon which let the skis glide, turn uphill and grip the snow.
The details are subordinate to the motion of the principal plastic mass in the ascending anfractuosity of space - the main aesthetic value of the composition.
The climbers will ascend the mountains of Ben Nevis in Scotland, Scafell Pike in England and Snowdon in Wales as part of their trek.
= Probably Sirius, the Dog Star, under whose ascendency, according to ancient beliefs, epidemic diseases prevailed. Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems
Here are my thoughts on the remaining contenders, in roughly ascending order of preference.
The voices of the nay-sayers are in the ascendancy, questioning the US's ability to reinvent itself, to heal its wounded economy and sustain its leadership in the face of a burgeoning China.
The time is not far distant," he said in a letter to John Adams, "at which we are to repose in the same cerement our sorrows and suffering bodies, and to ascend in essence to an ecstatic meeting with the friends we have loved and lost, and whom we shall love and never lose again. History of the University of Virginia, 1819-1919
-- In this variety the branches are more ascending and the habit altogether more erect; indeed, among the hornbeams this is a counterpart of the fastigiate varieties of the common oak. Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884
Ms. Goodman ascended a 10-foot aluminum ladder to the roof.
A cup of tea at the right moment does for the virtuous reveller all that Falstaff claims for a good sherris-sack, or at least the first half of its "twofold operation:" "It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapors which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery and delectable shapes, which delivered over to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
The ascending aorta was enlarged and distended.
The road becomes a gravel track and begins to ascend through silver birch as the hills start closing in.
She just moved off, climbing the air as though ascending a flight of invisible stairs. EVERVILLE
According to what we understand about the effects of priming, the opposite would be predicted - lower thresholds derived from the descending than the ascending order.
He defended the title successfully a total of six times, before vacating it when he ascended to the welterweight division. WN.com - Articles related to Art of War: Floyd Mayweather's incentive to sign late
* Ceterum qualia illa sunt, quae nec oculus vidit nec auris audivit nec in cor hominis ascenderunt? The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries
I've talked to lots of reviewers who, like me, are making their year-end lists, and almost all of them seem to agree it's been a challenge to create and sort a list this year, to put games in ascending order of superiority. Was It Really A Bleh Year?
The apical membrane of epithelial cells in the thick segment of the ascending limb contains a Na+ / K+-2Cl - cotransport system, which involves the transport of sodium, potassium and chloride ions across the membrane in a 1: 1: 2 molar ratio. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
The epithelial lining and muscle coats made a morphologic switch as the sections ascended in a direction toward the testes.
Whenever he s would deliver a sermon or speak to the people he would lean on it; but when a mimbar was brought for him, and he ascended it, a cry was heard from the date palm the way a she camel cries when it separates from its offspring. Archive 2007-12-01
The deacon ascends to the altar with the burse in hand, and extends the corporal; at the same time, an acolyte places the Missal on the Gospel side, with a purification vessel and purificator for the purification of the priest's fingers after Communion. Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 4.2 - Good Friday, The Adoration of the Cross and the Rite of the Presanctified
It had taken them about 20 minutes to gain any ascendancy. Times, Sunday Times
The = stem = is clay color to ochre yellow, enlarged below, spongy, stuffed, fistulose, soft, fibrous, more or less ascending at the base. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
Then I ascended the narrow stairs to his doorway.
I grasped for landmarks, as we ascended the foothills of the Dublin Mountains.
The king of the said land of Iaua hath a most braue and sumptuous pallace, the most loftily built, that euer I saw any, and it hath most high greeses and stayers to ascend vp to the roomes therein contained, one stayre being of siluer, and another of gold, throughout the whole building. The Journal of Friar Odoric
Before yet a song of joy or of mourning had gone forth from the valleys of Norway -- before yet a smoke-wreath had ascended from its huts -- before an axe had felled a tree of its woods -- before yet king Nor burst forth from Jotunhem to seek his lost sister, and passing through the land gave to it his name; nay, before _yet_ there was a Norwegian, stood the high Strife and Peace
Starting on C major, they ascend in pitch utilizing the key signatures that employ no more than four sharps or flats.
Alleluia: quemadmodum vidistis eum ascendentem in caelum, ita veniet, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. Ascension Day Music for the Mass
Wing area was reduced by taping primary remiges five to seven (counted ascendingly).
Very early this morning, she set our ascent rope with a hundred-foot shot over a high branch from her crossbow, and now she fixes her ascenders to the anchored line and snaps them to her harness with a locking carabiner.
On ascending the ladder and crawling inside, smoke from the hearth stings the eyes. Times, Sunday Times
All we had wanted to do was make an appearance, and maybe then we'd be able to ascend the social hierarchy at school.
I flex my fingers and grab the two metal ascenders clamped to my climbing rope.
For ascending turns, rotate your uphill ski first.
Chap it, an 'let us up to hell oot o' this," and the bottomer, no less frightened than he, tore at the bell, and jumping in himself just as the cage began slowly to ascend, clung to the bar, shivering with terror. The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner
Item sunt alie expense facte in Curiis Regis annuatim pro officio generalis procuratoris in diversis Curiis Regis, que de necessitate fieri oportet, pro brevibus Regis, et Cartis impetendis, et aliis, negociis in eisdem Curiis expediendis, que ad minus ascendunt per annum, prout evidencius apparet, per compotum et memoranda dicti fratris de Scaccario qui per capitulum ad illud officium oneratur ... lx m. Notes and Queries, Number 38, July 20, 1850
With only 10 slots, the shuffled deck consists of 20 groups of cards that alternate between ascending and descending card orders.
Ascending from the medulla and curving dorsolaterally into the tegmentum of the midbrain is the medial lemniscus, on its way to the thalamus.
The commander's intent was to hurdle obstacles, crawl beneath objects, ascend and descend obstacles, and jump from objects.
When Caleb could no longer hear his footsteps ascending the staircase outside the parlor, he rested the poker against the mantel and turned back toward the vestibule.
At lunchtime I ascend the stairs to the main canteen and take a noodle and stirfry meal at the subsidised price.
He was no longer planning to ascend hundreds of miles up the Missouri River before winter.
The long ascending line from dead matter to man has been a progress Godwards, -- not an asymptotical progress, but destined from the beginning to furnish a point of union; and occupying that point as true God and true man, -- as Creator and created, -- we recognize the adorable Monarch of all the future! The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
A cup of tea at the right moment does for the virtuous reveller all that Falstaff claims for a good sherris-sack, or at least the first half of its "twofold operation:" "It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapors which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery and delectable shapes, which delivered over to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit. Our Hundred Days in Europe
Mounted in front of them on the railings were a dozen telescopes, each with a different resolution, through which the three of them could see the familiar ladders and stairways, resembling three ribs of an umbrella, that took thirty thousand steps to descend (or ascend) to the Central Plain of Rama. The Garden of Rama
Do they promulgate a conservative ascendency when they fail to draw real lines between them and the other party? Meet Rob Simmons (R CAND, CT-SEN). | RedState
Jacob ascended the creaky stairs on his way to Peter's apartment.
It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble fiery and delectable shapes; which, deliverd oer to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit. Act IV. Scene III. The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth
Each year, thousands of devotees ascend the mountain at midnight under a full moon, chanting mantras, to offer their gifts to the ancestral spirits.
Humans wishing to ascend or descend used concrete ramps, installed to save on precious wartime steel. Smithsonian Mag
His language might at times ascend to rhapsody, yet his was an uncommonly practical approach - radical in the sense of attacking the preeminent social problem at its root, but basically conservative as to method.
The robin is chief singer; his voice ascends like a spiral stair, every ringing note a roundel for the mounting spirit. The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
By racing, players can ascend in level and rank to build up their reputation and weekly in-game salary.
The author, then pursuing his comment upon Plato, observes, that "one of these manias may suffice (especially that which belongs to love) to lead back the soul to its first divinity and happiness; but that there is an intimate union with them all; and that the ordinary progress through which the soul ascends is, primarily, through the musical; next, through the telestic or mystic; thirdly, through the prophetic; and lastly, through the enthusiasm of love. Zanoni
The 9th of May, after another such an up-and-down course, ascending hills and descending into the twilight depths of deepening valleys, we came suddenly upon the Mukondokwa, and its narrow pent-up valley crowded with rank reedy grass, cane, and thorny bushes; and rugged tamarisk which grappled for existence with monster convolvuli, winding their coils around their trunks with such tenacity and strength that the tamarisk seemed grown but for their support. How I Found Livingstone
She needs a pair of jumar clamps and stirrups so that she can ascend the rope. The Wall
After decussating, these fibers ascend in a compact, ribbon like tract called the medial lemniscus.
If a jewel falls into the mire, it remains as precious as before; and though dust should ascend to heaven, its former worthlessness will not be altered.
It happened on the morning after the festival of Mahashivaratri-the Great Night of Shiva-when, weakened by fasting and loosened by a kind of spiritual hangover, Navin revealed to Kudra that he adored horses and that during his youth had entertained the impossible dream of miraculously transcending Vaisya, the merchant caste, and ascending to Kshatriya, the warrior caste, so that he might ride. La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
Sheridan depicts drug-filled cesspools not to criticize or protest, but to claim that they form merely the bottom rung of an ever-ascending ladder of success.
In the following figure, P is the pole of the earth; E the pole of the ecliptic; L the pole of the lunar orbit; V the mean position of the pole of the vortex at the time; the angle ♈ EL the true longitude of the pole of the lunar orbit, equal to the _true_ longitude of the ascending node Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence
In addition, there are bit players and extras, who may or may not ascend through the ranks to become stars or character actors.
(ascendiamo per le minori a le maggiori bellezze) and from the pure to the purest leading to the knowledge and love, not only of the most beautiful intelligences, souls and motors of the heavenly bodies, but also of the highest beauty and of the supremely beautiful, the giver of all beauty, life, intelligence and being. Judah Abrabanel
If anything, SF/F is on a hugely ascendent trajectory in popular awareness these days. International Science Fiction Reshelving Day -- Good Idea or Bad Idea?
Then the procession wound slowly down the mountain, and henceforth none dare ascend the slope of Maunganamu on pain of death, for it was "tabooed," like Tongariro, where lie the ashes of a chief killed by an earthquake in 1846. In Search of the Castaways
There, the rockets will link up, creating an 80-ton spacecraft that will ascend to 22,000 miles and lock into geosynchronous orbit.
Say hello to shirtsleeved, smiling Tony Blair, the leader of the ascendant Labour Party. London Swings! Again!
As we ascended the rusted metal ladder up into a series of passageways called The Warren we began to look like real cavers - wet, muddy and generally covered in cack.
Ascending infection in women leads to the major complication of gonorrhea, pelvic inflammatory disease, a common cause of female infertility.
If you make it down to the beach, you can try waterskiing, sailing - and that overrated parascending. The Sun
The steep path ascends from here to the high point of the circuit, Dale Head.
The retreat of Marxism has been paralleled by the ascendancy of the New Right.
Now draw or trace ten dinosaurs in ascending order of size.
A real ascender scout would have semaphore flags, or at least a message lizard that could scamper down the line. LEVIATHAN
And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
So while normcore may be in its ascendancy here in the States, Tokyo street style is still full-on maximalist.
At the same time, supporters of right-wing dictatorships ascended to the highest offices of the Church.
Fragile protuberances like zygomatic processes and ascending rami were found to be broken, but most bones were still intact.
However, gifts received from blood relations lineal a ascendants and lineal descendants. and those received on certain occasions like marriage etc. would continue to be totally exempt.
There are loops on the ascenders and descenders, except for lower case ‘t’ letters and some ‘d' letters, which are straight.
Given data on planetary orbits, conventional GA could only perform mundane tasks like sorting them into ascending order of diameter.
The speaker circumvents the threat of potentially fatal contraction by becoming like the sun, by becoming what he beholds: "We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun," and the daybreak is suddenly "calm and cool" (564-5). 'Points of Contact': Blake and Whitman
Less than a decade later, in a new "lubric and adult'rous age," after the World War, he rose from Teddington to Mayfair, like Ganymede ascending to Olympus, becoming the spokesman for all that was daring, outré, brash. Whipped Cream
In the midst of this appalling ruin of the monuments of man's power, nature asserted her ascendancy, and shone more beauteous from the contrast. III.9
Pair indifference to risk aversion did not last, and finally broke under 87.00 static area, also the short term ascendant trend line that was guiding price action in the hourly hart. FXstreet.com
In birds, the process of urinary concentration involves dilution of glomerular filtrate by the reabsorption of sodium chloride in the thick ascending limb of looped nephrons.
The air became colder as we ascended.
The uneasy ceasefire between an authoritative church and an ascendant political class may be at an end.
I shall list my objections to the plan in ascending order of importance.
If a jewel falls into the mire, it remains as precious as before; and though dust should ascend to heaven, its former worthlessness will not be altered.
In the right lower quadrant you are feeling mainly for the terminal ileum, the cecum, and the ascending colon, and for the descending colon in the left.
If a jewel falls into the mire, it remains as precious as before; and though dust should ascend to heaven, its former worthlessness will not be altered.
Lots of loyal customers mean stably increasing saleroom, low sale cost and continually ascending gains for enterprises.
Mousa fled in disguise from the palace of Boursa; traversed the Propontis in an open boat; wandered over the Walachian and Servian hills; and after some vain attempts, ascended the throne of Adrianople, so recently stained with the blood of Soliman. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
We watched the mists ascending from the valley below.
Lazarus became the first Bishop of Marseilles, and Saint Martha ascended the Rhone as far as Avignon and built near the site of the present Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1
But it's so crowded, loud and smoky that even the intrepid Milica gasps for air, and we reascend the stairs to lounge against the bannister near the entrance.
The signification of the 7th house for opponents and ‘opposite numbers’ - both in love and war - can to some extent be explained by its diametrical aspect to the ascendant.
The year is 1558 and the document is dated November 20, the very day that the young Elizabeth I ascends the throne.
We bundled up in our heaviest clothing, packed lots of food and drinks, and ascended the razorback ridge known as Section 21.
Wes Clark chose his, and the other team, some of whom are currently in ascendency, are still trying to exact a price. Archive 2004-01-01
Et fuit, in tempore quo coibant pecudes, levavi oculos meos, et vidi in somnio, et ecce hirci majores ascendebant super capras variegatas, punctis parvis respersas, et maculis latis respersas. Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2
Bosonic Ashurs had returned from their mastery of the dark light-years, seeking ascendance over all... and were subdued by the mesonic Kanjurs, who in turn were defeated by the Devas--patterned from integral quarks. Roberson's Book Report
The leaves of ssp. beneolens are greenish, mostly linear to very-narrowly oblanceolate, and have a tendency to be ascending.
This is what happened to Benjamin, my bozo of a baboon, who during his brief ascendancy became a jerk.
The first phase of the study demonstrated that the ascending dose that mirrored a sustained-release preparation was similar to the standard three-times-per-day dosage of methylphenidate.
In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they, of necessity, reascend; and thus from good they gradually decline to evil, and from evil again return to good. The History of Florence
To the onlookers below, it seemed as if a second sun lurched drunkenly through the sky, from which blazing goddesses descended and ascended while thunderbolts flashed and pealed.
And then Madeleine ascends the mission bell tower.
Next the hypothetical will be to assume that the only thing keeping us from total disaster is to allow Cheney to ascend to the presidency, with Jack Bauer as VP. kth Says: Matthew Yglesias » Crawford Setting a Trap
Humans wishing to ascend or descend used concrete ramps, installed to save on precious wartime steel. Smithsonian Mag
The superficial portion runs beneath the Splenius, giving off branches which pierce that muscle to supply the Trapezius and anastomose with the ascending branch of the transverse cervical: the deep portion runs down between the Semispinales capitis and colli, and anastomoses with the vertebral and with the a. profunda cervicalis, a branch of the costocervical trunk. VI. The Arteries. 3a. 2. The External Carotid Artery
This was later reduced to a fine and, despite being convicted of fraud in 2003, she has reascended the ranks of the ANC. Winnie the Opera premieres with all eyes on Winnie the spectator
As you ascend, you will feel the voice wanting to shift somewhere around D or E above Middle C.
There was a time that to ascend to the office of Governor, one would at least have a modicum of eduction and critical thinking ability. McDonnell: Not mentioning slavery was 'a mistake'
Why did a petty-bourgeois nationalist outlook gain ascendancy?
The right recurrent laryngeal nerve usually passes around and behind the subclavian artery and then ascends to enter the larynx.
The flowers are inconspicuous, usually white or cream and pedunculate, ascending or erect, corymbose cymes, collected into a terminal leafless panicle, or the lower peduncles arising from the axis of reduced leaves. Chapter 17
Has Stanley's ill-considered publication of this literary leviathan given license to a certain kind of rebarbative white animus toward any stirrings of black cultural ascendancy?
The coyote slowly ascended the mountain, sweat glistening on his brow, his thoughts lost in the events of the previous day.
But it is leaders like Mr. Hunter and Mr. Warren who are in ascendance. December 2006
Pop and rock are going through a major slump right now with full-on breadheads in the ascendancy.
The interaction between the parts and the horizon brings the lunation cycle down to earth, projecting it, via the ascendant, into the sublunar sphere of the mundane houses.
Ascending and descending needs to appear to be effortless and natural.
Maybe we all have an inner desire to ascend towards the heavens with grace and verve.
By the early 20th century the conservatives had gained ascendancy and the presidency remained within a handful of élite families as if it were their personal patrimony.
As it was big enough for only two people, he enjoyed trapping someone in it with him and farting in sharp trumpet blats as he ascended three floors. Beard
Lady Rice, Angelica and Jelly: Lady Rice and Angelica fight it out for ascendency: Jelly is Angelica's creature. SPLITTING
The day before Walcott ascended to the chancellorship, a group of early childhood educators, agency leaders, college faculty, policymakers, and other stakeholders gathered at NYU for "Early Care and Education: Forging a Common Mission in New York State," a policy forum sponsored by the NYC Association for the Education of Young Children. Susan Ochshorn: A New Chancellor With Kindergarten on His C.V.
The Society of Friends were the principal agitators in that movement, and the blessings and prayers of the poor liberated slaves ascended the altars of heaven on that great occasion; can they forget the kindlier feelings of their nature that was stirred up within them on that occasion, can they ever, think you, forget the glorious day which made their fellow creatures free; can they forget the first of August of that eventful year? Biography of Mahommah G. Baquaqua, a Native of Zoogoo, in the Interior of Africa. (A Convert to Christianity,) With a Description of That Part of the World; Including the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants, Their Religious Notions, Form of Government,

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