All 16 Uses of
ascend
in
War and Peace
- Reaching the large house near the Horse Guards' barracks, in which Anatole lived, Pierre entered the lighted porch, ascended the stairs, and went in at the open door.†
Chpt 1
- The mother smoothed the folds of her dyed silk dress before a large Venetian mirror in the wall, and in her trodden-down shoes briskly ascended the carpeted stairs.†
Chpt 1
- She hurriedly ascended the narrow dimly lit stone staircase, calling to Pierre, who was lagging behind, to follow.†
Chpt 1
- The soldiers were ascending the hill breathing heavily, and despite the general's presence were talking loudly and gesticulating.†
Chpt 2
- But the columns advanced for a long time, always in the same fog, descending and ascending hills, avoiding gardens and enclosures, going over new and unknown ground, and nowhere encountering the enemy.†
Chpt 3
- Having entered the courtyard of a large house where the Lodge had its headquarters, and having ascended a dark staircase, they entered a small well-lit anteroom where they took off their cloaks without the aid of a servant.†
Chpt 5
- Now those vague liberal dreams with which the Emperor Alexander had ascended the throne, and which he had tried to put into effect with the aid of his associates, Czartoryski, Novosiltsev, Kochubey, and Strogonov—whom he himself in jest had called his Comite de salut public—were taking shape and being realized.
Chpt 6 *ascended = climbed (to a more prestigious position)
- The squadron overtook and passed the infantry and the battery—which had also quickened their pace—rode down a hill, and passing through an empty and deserted village again ascended.†
Chpt 9
- When he had ascended the hill and reached the little village street, he saw for the first time peasant militiamen in their white shirts and with crosses on their caps, who, talking and laughing loudly, animated and perspiring, were at work on a huge knoll overgrown with grass to the right of the road.†
Chpt 10
- Pierre stepped out of his carriage and, passing the toiling militiamen, ascended the knoll from which, according to the doctor, the battlefield could be seen.†
Chpt 10
- The knoll to which Pierre ascended was that famous one afterwards known to the Russians as the Knoll Battery or Raevski's Redoubt, and to the French as la grande redoute, la fatale redoute, la redoute du centre, around which tens of thousands fell, and which the French regarded as the key to the whole position.†
Chpt 10
- When ascending that knoll Pierre had no notion that this spot, on which small trenches had been dug and from which a few guns were firing, was the most important point of the battle.†
Chpt 10
- "Ah, here he is, my hero!" said Kutuzov to a portly, handsome, dark-haired general who was just ascending the knoll.†
Chpt 10
- By the time they got near Mozhaysk and began ascending the steep hill into the town, the cocks were already crowing.†
Chpt 11
- At daybreak, however, those nearing the town at the Dorogomilov bridge saw ahead of them masses of soldiers crowding and hurrying across the bridge, ascending on the opposite side and blocking the streets and alleys, while endless masses of troops were bearing down on them from behind, and an unreasoning hurry and alarm overcame them.†
Chpt 11
- He ascended an incline, stopped, looked about him, and advanced to where the screen of trees was less dense.†
Chpt 14 *
Definitions:
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(ascend as in: ascend higher figuratively) figuratively, to rise to a better situation
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(ascend as in: ascend the mountain) to move or slope upward -- sometimes figuratively as when climbing the corporate ladder