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The Return of the Native
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- he ascended the valley in a mathematically direct line towards his distant home in the meadows.
Chpt 6 *ascended = climbed (move upward)
- With her dropping out of sight on the right side, a new-comer, bearing a burden, protruded into the sky on the left side, ascended the tumulus, and deposited the burden on the top.†
Chpt 1
- Each, as he ascended the barrow, had been heavily laden with furze-faggots, carried upon the shoulder by means of a long stake sharpened at each end for impaling them easily—two in front and two behind.†
Chpt 1
- She ascended to her old position at the top, where the red coals of the perishing fire greeted her like living eyes in the corpse of day.†
Chpt 1
- He skirted the gravel-pit at a respectful distance, ascended the slope, and came forward upon the brow, in order to look into the open door of the van and see the original of the shadow.†
Chpt 1
- But on the next, being the day-week of their previous meeting, he saw a female shape floating along the ridge and the outline of a young man ascending from the valley.†
Chpt 1
- X A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion The next morning, at the time when the height of the sun appeared very insignificant from any part of the heath as compared with the altitude of Rainbarrow, and when all the little hills in the lower levels were like an archipelago in a fog-formed Aegean, the reddleman came from the brambled nook which he had adopted as his quarters and ascended the slopes of Mistover Knap.†
Chpt 1
- Rainbarrow had again become blended with night when Wildeve ascended the long acclivity at its base.†
Chpt 2
- Yeobright preaching to the Egdon eremites that they might rise to a serene comprehensiveness without going through the process of enriching themselves, was not unlike arguing to ancient Chaldeans that in ascending from earth to the pure empyrean it was not necessary to pass first into the intervening heaven of ether.†
Chpt 3
- Clym ascended behind her, and noticed a circular burnt patch at the top of the bank.†
Chpt 3
- In addition to the upward path through the heath to Rainbarrow and Mistover, there was a road which branched from the highway a short distance below the inn, and ascended to Mistover by a circuitous and easy incline.†
Chpt 3
- It was nearly nine o'clock when he began to ascend the vale towards Mistover; but the long days of summer being at their climax, the first obscurity of evening had only just begun to tan the landscape.†
Chpt 3
- Christian took up his gownpiece, and the two set out to ascend the hill.†
Chpt 3
- Reflecting a minute or two, during which interval the carriage rolled on, he crossed the road, and took a short cut through the furze and heath to a point where the turnpike-road bent round in ascending a hill.†
Chpt 3
- She ascended to her bedroom and dressed herself with scrupulous care.†
Chpt 4
- Accordingly, when watching on the night after the festival, the reddleman saw him ascend by the little path, lean over the front gate of Clym's garden, sigh, and turn to go back again.†
Chpt 4
- She tried one ascending path and another, and found that they led her astray.†
Chpt 4
- She ascended, and sat down under their shade to recover herself, and to consider how best to break the ground with Eustacia, so as not to irritate a woman underneath whose apparent indolence lurked passions even stronger and more active than her own.†
Chpt 4
- Eustacia turned, entered the house, and ascended to the front bedroom, where a shaded light was burning.†
Chpt 5
- More than that it did not do, for she refrained even from ascending the bank and looking over.†
Chpt 5
- Curiosity had its way: she ascended one or two of the earth-steps in the bank and glanced out.†
Chpt 5
- She was soon ascending Blooms-End valley and traversing the undulations on the side of the hill.†
Chpt 5
- Propelled by his feet he steered round and round the pool, ascending each time by one of the back streams and descending in the middle of the current.†
Chpt 5
- The steam came from his leggings and ascended the chimney with the smoke, while he thought of those who were upstairs.†
Chpt 5
- The two went round and ascended the crooked stair in darkness till Clym's sitting-room on the upper floor was reached, where he lit a candle, Charley entering gently behind.†
Chpt 6
- Those who ascended to the immediate neighbourhood of the Barrow perceived that the erect form in the centre, piercing the sky, was not really alone.†
Chpt 6
Definitions:
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(1)
(ascend as in: ascend the mountain) to move or slope upward -- sometimes figuratively as when climbing the corporate ladder
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(2)
(ascend as in: in ascending order) move up a scale -- as from smaller numbers to larger, or lower notes to higher
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(3)
(ascend as in: ascend higher figuratively) figuratively, to rise to a better situation
- (4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)