All 11 Uses of
ascend
in
The Da Vinci Code
- The two men were now halfway up the Denon Wing's entry tunnel, and Langdon could see the twin ascending escalators at the far end, both motionless.†
Chpt 4
- As they ascended, Langdon tried to focus on anything other than the four walls around him.†
Chpt 4
- Here, the glistening Rose Line took a ninety-degree vertical turn and continued directly up the face of the obelisk itself, ascending thirty-three feet to the very tip of the pyramidical apex, where it finally ceased.†
Chpt 21-22
- When one of the top four members died, the remaining three would choose from the lower echelons the next candidate to ascend as sénéchal.†
Chpt 47-48
- The best known was the Masons', wherein members ascended to higher degrees by proving they could keep a secret and by performing rituals and various tests of merit over many years.†
Chpt 47-48
- Fache ascended.†
Chpt 83-84 *
- As they entered the musty, cavernous space, the agent motioned toward the center of the room, where a wooden ladder now ascended high into the rafters, propped against the ledge of a hayloft suspended high above them.†
Chpt 87-88
- The ladder was an antique tapered design and narrowed as Collet ascended.†
Chpt 87-88
- He could feel himself ascending to a higher station in life.†
Chpt 93-94
- Gray stone columns ascended like redwoods into the shadows, arching gracefully over dizzying expanses, and then shooting back down to the stone floor.†
Chpt 97-98
- The sénéchaux were traditionally men—the guardians—and yet women held far more honored status within the Priory and could ascend to the highest post from virtually any rank.†
Chpt 105
Definition:
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(ascend as in: ascend the mountain) to move or slope upward -- sometimes figuratively as when climbing the corporate ladder