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  • What Esthappen and Rahel witnessed that morning, though they didn't know it then, was a clinical demonstration in controlled conditions (this was not war after all, or genocide) of human nature's pursuit of ascendancy.†  (source)
  • Not his ascendancy alone, however, held me in thrall at present.†  (source)
  • In order to establish my ascendancy once and for all, I determined to visit the wolf esker itself the following morning and make a detailed examination of the presumed den.†  (source)
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  • I knew nothing about the duality of man's nature when I was eighteen, but I knew about the presence of my guerrilla, and as the months wore on, I knew that I would have to deal with his ascendancy.†  (source)
  • She could not board with one family for more than one term, for that would cause jealousy—a family gained social ascendency by boarding the teacher.†  (source)
  • Would you prefer a nuclear holocaust, laboratory plague, or technological singularity to my ascendancy?†  (source)
  • According to this account and what was subsequently learned, it seemed that the scaramouch in question had gained a wonderful ascendency over almost everybody in the Jeroboam.†  (source)
  • possibly some dim hope that Senator McCarthy, and others of his persuasion, in those days having achieved a certain ascendancy over the rich cretins from across the sea, would somehow refocus attention on the fallen of WWII, especially ones whose corpses had never been found;†  (source)
  • Propensities, tendencies, habits, were as dead leaves upon the tyrannous wind of his imaginative ascendency.†  (source)
  • In the first place, he is what we used to call in my young days a Gentleman of the Ascendancy.†  (source)
  • His ascendency was extraordinary.†  (source)
  • His hatred, like a powerless though furious wave, was broken against the strong ascendancy which Mercedes exercised over him.†  (source)
  • It was interesting to see the ascendency which the uneducated woman, bound to him by no legal tie, had acquired over the brilliant, unstable man.†  (source)
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