All 15 Uses of
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Far from the Madding Crowd
- Lingering and musing here, he heard the steps of a horse at the foot of the hill, and soon there appeared in view an auburn pony with a girl on its back, ascending by the path leading past the cattle-shed.†
Chpt 1-3
- He jumped out of bed, dressed, tore down the lane through a foggy dawn, and ascended the hill.†
Chpt 4-6
- Billy Smallbury—one of the men who had been on the waggon—by this time had found a ladder, which Mark Clark ascended, holding on beside Oak upon the thatch.†
Chpt 4-6
- Tall cantered along the bridle-path through Sixteen Acres, Sheeplands, Middle Field, The Flats, Cappel's Piece, shrank almost to a point, crossed the bridge, and ascended from the valley through Springmead and Whitepits on the other side.†
Chpt 19-21
- In ascending to her own chamber, Bathsheba opened the girl's door an inch or two, and, panting, said— "Liddy, is any soldier staying in the village—sergeant somebody— rather gentlemanly for a sergeant, and good looking—a red coat with blue facings?"†
Chpt 22-24
- Bathsheba's eyes, shaded by one hand, were following the ascending multitude against the unexplorable stretch of blue till they ultimately halted by one of the unwieldy trees spoken of.†
Chpt 25-27
- She had dressed the hive with herbs and honey, fetched a ladder, brush, and crook, made herself impregnable with armour of leather gloves, straw hat, and large gauze veil—once green but now faded to snuff colour—and ascended a dozen rungs of the ladder.†
Chpt 25-27
- Troy flung down his cane and put his foot on the ladder to ascend.†
Chpt 25-27 *
- Believing that the little gallery door alluded to was quite disused, he ascended the external flight of steps at the top of which it stood, and examined it.†
Chpt 28-30
- Oak vaulted astride, and Coggan clambered up by aid of the bank, when they ascended to the gate and galloped off in the direction taken by Bathsheba's horse and the robber.†
Chpt 31-33
- Bathsheba was on the ground now, shouldering another sheaf, and she bore its dazzle without flinching—thunder and all—and again ascended with the load.†
Chpt 37-39
- Then Oak went back again, ascended to the top, stepped off the ladder for greater expedition, and went on thatching.†
Chpt 37-39
- This done he ascended the stairs, and throwing himself down upon the bed dressed as he was, he waited miserably for the morning.†
Chpt 43-45
- To each of the two chief openings on opposite sides a winding road ascended, and the level green space of ten or fifteen acres enclosed by the bank was the site of the fair.†
Chpt 49-51
- Troy then slid down on the outside of the rampart, hastened round in the bottom of the entrenchment to a distance of a hundred yards, ascended again, and crossed boldly in a slow walk towards the front entrance of the tent.†
Chpt 49-51
Definition:
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(ascend as in: ascend the mountain) to move or slope upward -- sometimes figuratively as when climbing the corporate ladder