All 5 Uses of
ascend
in
Wuthering Heights
- Joseph mumbled indistinctly in the depths of the cellar, but gave no intimation of ascending; so his master dived down to him, leaving me VIS-A-VIS the ruffianly bitch and a pair of grim shaggy sheep-dogs, who shared with her a jealous guardianship over all my movements.†
Chpt 1
- On ascending to Isabella's room, my suspicions were confirmed: it was empty.†
Chpt 12 *
- But the return was no such easy matter: the stones were smooth and neatly cemented, and the rose-bushes and black-berry stragglers could yield no assistance in re-ascending.†
Chpt 22
- Zillah and I ascended after him; but he stopped me at the top of the steps, and said I shouldn't go in: I must go home.†
Chpt 24
- Linton who had been conveyed up to the little parlour soon after I left, was terrified into fetching the key before his father re-ascended.†
Chpt 28
Definition:
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(ascend as in: ascend the mountain) to move or slope upward -- sometimes figuratively as when climbing the corporate ladder