All 5 Uses of
ascend
in
Bleak House
- If she could be translated to heaven to-morrow, she might be expected to ascend without any rapture.†
Chpt 1-3
- Our coming to the ridge of a hill we had been ascending enabled our friend to point out Chesney Wold itself to us and diverted his attention from its master.†
Chpt 16-18
- As they ascend the dim stairs (Mr.†
Chpt 22-24 *
- He ascends the doorsteps and is gliding into the dusky hall when he encounters, on the top step, a bowing and propitiatory little man.†
Chpt 40-42
- As we ascended the hill, he looked about him with a sharp eye—the day was now breaking—and reminded me that I had come down it one night, as I had reason for remembering, with my little servant and poor Jo, whom he called Toughey.†
Chpt 55-57
Definition:
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(ascend as in: ascend the mountain) to move or slope upward -- sometimes figuratively as when climbing the corporate ladder