All 41 Uses of
ascend
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- …and endeavoring to insinuate in the ear of the shipowner some evil suspicions against his comrade, and follow Dantes, who, after having traversed La Canebiere, took the Rue de Noailles, and entering a small house, on the left of the Allees de Meillan, rapidly ascended four flights of a dark staircase, holding the baluster with one hand, while with the other he repressed the beatings of his heart, and paused before a half-open door, from which he could see the whole of a small room.†
Chpt 1-2
- "And should any misfortune occur to you, dear Edmond," she continued with the same calmness which proved to Fernand that the young girl had read the very innermost depths of his sinister thought, "if misfortune should occur to you, I would ascend the highest point of the Cape de Morgion and cast myself headlong from it."†
Chpt 3-4
- Dantes made no resistance; he was like a man in a dream: he saw soldiers drawn up on the embankment; he knew vaguely that he was ascending a flight of steps; he was conscious that he passed through a door, and that the door closed behind him; but all this indistinctly as through a mist.†
Chpt 7-8
- An instant afterwards he hastily drew back his head, saying, "I thought so!" and sliding from the shoulders of Dantes as dextrously as he had ascended, he nimbly leaped from the table to the ground.†
Chpt 15-16
- But beneath my fingers, as if by magic, in proportion as the fire ascended, I saw yellowish characters appear on the paper.†
Chpt 17-18
- It seemed as if a flow of blood had ascended from the chest to the head.†
Chpt 19-20 *
- Edmond stiffened himself in order to play the part of a dead man, and then the party, lighted by the man with the torch, who went first, ascended the stairs.†
Chpt 19-20
- They ascended five or six more steps, and then Dantes felt that they took him, one by the head and the other by the heels, and swung him to and fro.†
Chpt 19-20
- He ascended into grottos paved with emeralds, with panels of rubies, and the roof glowing with diamond stalactites.†
Chpt 23-24
- It was dark, but at eleven o'clock the moon rose in the midst of the ocean, whose every wave she silvered, and then, "ascending high," played in floods of pale light on the rocky hills of this second Pelion.†
Chpt 23-24
- Again he climbed the rocky height he had ascended the previous evening, and strained his view to catch every peculiarity of the landscape; but it wore the same wild, barren aspect when seen by the rays of the morning sun which it had done when surveyed by the fading glimmer of eve.†
Chpt 25-26
- …objects with a pertinacity that admitted of no appeal, beginning, as a matter of course, with the Lions' Den, and finishing with Caesar's "Podium,"), to escape a jargon and mechanical survey of the wonders by which he was surrounded, Franz ascended a half-dilapidated staircase, and, leaving them to follow their monotonous round, seated himself at the foot of a column, and immediately opposite a large aperture, which permitted him to enjoy a full and undisturbed view of the gigantic…†
Chpt 33-34
- All at once his ear caught a sound resembling that of a stone rolling down the staircase opposite the one by which he had himself ascended.†
Chpt 33-34
- Unfortunately for him, the line of carriages moved on again, and while he descended the Piazza del Popolo, the other ascended towards the Palazzo di Venezia.†
Chpt 35-36
- When the count thought Franz had gazed sufficiently on this picturesque tableau, he raised his finger to his lips, to warn him to be silent, and, ascending the three steps which led to the corridor of the columbarium, entered the chamber by the middle arcade, and advanced towards Vampa, who was so intent on the book before him that he did not hear the noise of his footsteps.†
Chpt 37-38
- The count and Franz ascended seven or eight steps after the chief, who drew back a bolt and opened a door.†
Chpt 37-38
- Albert had himself presided at the arrangement, or, rather, the symmetrical derangement, which, after coffee, the guests at a breakfast of modern days love to contemplate through the vapor that escapes from their mouths, and ascends in long and fanciful wreaths to the ceiling.†
Chpt 39-40
- The house Ali had chosen, and which was to serve as a town residence to Monte Cristo, was situated on the right hand as you ascend the Champs Elysees.†
Chpt 41-42
- The quick, eager glance of La Carconte followed him as he ascended, while Caderousse, on the contrary, turned his back, and seemed most anxiously to avoid even glancing at him.†
Chpt 45-46
- I strode past her, and ascended to the sleeping chamber, which presented an appearance of the wildest disorder.†
Chpt 45-46
- I have believed it was much easier to descend from the whole to a part than to ascend from a part to the whole.†
Chpt 47-48
- Such was the picturesque costume of the person who rang at the gate, and demanded if it was not at No. 30 in the Avenue des Champs-Elysees that the Count of Monte Cristo lived, and who, being answered by the porter in the affirmative, entered, closed the gate after him, and began to ascend the steps.†
Chpt 55-56
- At the foot of the hill the count dismounted and began to ascend by a little winding path, about eighteen inches wide; when he reached the summit he found himself stopped by a hedge, upon which green fruit had succeeded to red and white flowers.†
Chpt 61-62
- Before this room, to which you could ascend by the grand, and go out by the back staircase, the servants passed with curiosity, and Bertuccio with terror.†
Chpt 61-62
- Madame Danglars threw a rapid and inquiring glance which could only be interpreted by Monte Cristo, around the court-yard, over the peristyle, and across the front of the house, then, repressing a slight emotion, which must have been seen on her countenance if she had not kept her color, she ascended the steps, saying to Morrel, "Sir, if you were a friend of mine, I should ask you if you would sell your horse."†
Chpt 61-62
- It was five o'clock in the afternoon; I ascended into the red room, and waited for night.†
Chpt 67-68
- The stranger ascended a rough staircase, and before a table, illumined by a lamp whose light was concentrated by a large shade while the rest of the apartment was in partial darkness, he perceived the abbe in a monk's dress, with a cowl on his head such as was used by learned men of the Middle Ages.†
Chpt 69-70
- …to calm his fears,—and instead of dwelling upon the political future that had so often been the subject of his ambitious dreams, was imagining a future limited to the enjoyments of home, in fear of awakening the enemy that had so long slept,—the noise of a carriage sounded in the yard, then he heard the steps of an aged person ascending the stairs, followed by tears and lamentations, such as servants always give vent to when they wish to appear interested in their master's grief.†
Chpt 71-72
- She prepared the iced water which he was in the habit of constantly drinking,—for since his sojourn at the kiosk he had been parched by the most violent fever,—after which she anointed his white beard with perfumed oil, and lighted his chibouque, which he sometimes smoked for hours together, quietly watching the wreaths of vapor that ascended in spiral clouds and gradually melted away in the surrounding atmosphere.†
Chpt 77-78
- Madame de Villefort was slowly ascending the steps which led to her room.†
Chpt 79-80
- At length an honorable peer, Morcerf's acknowledged enemy, ascended the tribune with that solemnity which announced that the expected moment had arrived.†
Chpt 85-86
- Morrel watched her as she left the room; he heard her ascend the little staircase which led both to Madame de Villefort's apartments and to hers.†
Chpt 93-94
- He inquired after the count with his usual familiarity, and ascending lightly to the second story met him at the top of the stairs.†
Chpt 95-96
- The fire crackled, and the smoke ascended like the dull vapor from a volcano; but still no prisoner fell down, as they expected.†
Chpt 97-98
- At the precise time when Madame Danglars, dressed in black and concealed in a long veil, was ascending the stairs leading to Debray's apartments,—notwithstanding the assurances of the concierge that the young man was not at home,—Debray was occupied in repelling the insinuations of a friend, who tried to persuade him that after the terrible scene which had just taken place he ought, as a friend of the family, to marry Mademoiselle Danglars and her two millions.†
Chpt 99-100
- The baroness ascended the steps; she felt herself strongly infected with the sadness which seemed to magnify her own, and still guided by the valet de chambre, who never lost sight of her for an instant, she was introduced to the magistrate's study.†
Chpt 99-100
- "Come," he said, as he ascended the stairs leading to his wife's room, "nothing is changed here."†
Chpt 111-112
- Monte Cristo remembered that on that very spot, on the same rock, he had been violently dragged by the guards, who forced him to ascend the slope at the points of their bayonets.†
Chpt 113-114
- "Follow me, sir;" and without ascending the stairs the guide conducted him by a subterraneous passage to another entrance.†
Chpt 113-114
- The white steam was ascending like a plume of feathers from the black chimney.†
Chpt 113-114
- The captain pointed towards the island, up the side of which ascended a volume of smoke, increasing as it rose.†
Chpt 117
Definition:
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(ascend as in: ascend the mountain) to move or slope upward -- sometimes figuratively as when climbing the corporate ladder