All 22 Uses
ascend
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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- Soon the equipage began to ascend to higher ground, and the wind grew keener with the change of level and soil.
Chpt 6 *ascend = move higher
- She alighted from the van at Trantridge Cross, and ascended on foot a hill in the direction of the district known as The Chase, on the borders of which, as she had been informed, Mrs d'Urberville's seat, The Slopes, would be found.†
Chpt 1
- The young man dismounted, and appeared to urge her to ascend.†
Chpt 1
- She could hear the rustling of the branches as he ascended the adjoining slope, till his movements were no louder than the hopping of a bird, and finally died away.†
Chpt 1
- Ascending by the long white road that Tess herself had just laboured up, she saw a two-wheeled vehicle, beside which walked a man, who held up his hand to attract her attention.†
Chpt 2
- In a few minutes they heard him ascend the ladder to his own room.†
Chpt 3
- They parted tenderly that night on the landing, and Clare ascended to his attic.†
Chpt 4
- When the carriage was gone they ascended the stairs to wash their hands, the charwoman showing the way.†
Chpt 4
- She quickened her pace, and ascended the the road by which she had come, to find a retreat between its hedges till the Vicar's family should have lunched, and it might be convenient for them to receive her.†
Chpt 5
- Thus absorbed, she recrossed the northern part of Long-Ash Lane at right angles, and presently saw before her the road ascending whitely to the upland along whose margin the remainder of her journey lay.†
Chpt 6
- Whenever Tess lifted her head she beheld always the great upgrown straw-stack, with the men in shirt-sleeves upon it, against the gray north sky; in front of it the long red elevator like a Jacob's ladder, on which a perpetual stream of threshed straw ascended, a yellow river running uphill, and spouting out on the top of the rick.†
Chpt 6
- Thus she proceeded mile after mile, ascending and descending till she came to Bulbarrow, and about midnight looked from that height into the abyss of chaotic shade which was all that revealed itself of the vale on whose further side she was born.†
Chpt 6
- During the halt Tess's eyes fell upon a three-pint blue mug, which was ascending and descending through the air to and from the feminine section of a household, sitting on the summit of a load that had also drawn up at a little distance from the same inn.†
Chpt 6
- Accompanied by 'Liza-Lu and the boy, she again ascended the little lane which secluded the church from the townlet.†
Chpt 6
- In a very few minutes after, he was driving up the hill out of the town which, three or four months earlier in the year, Tess had descended with such hopes and ascended with such shattered purposes.†
Chpt 7
- In something less than an hour-and-a-half he had skirted the south of the King's Hintock estates and ascended to the untoward solitude of Cross-in-Hand, the unholy stone whereon Tess had been compelled by Alec d'Urberville, in his whim of reformation, to swear the strange oath that she would never wilfully tempt him again.†
Chpt 7
- She heard Tess re-ascend the stairs to the first floor, and the departure of Clare, and the closing of the front door behind him.†
Chpt 7
- She accordingly ascended the stairs softly, and stood at the door of the front room—a drawing-room, connected with the room immediately behind it (which was a bedroom) by folding-doors in the common manner.†
Chpt 7
- Except the hall, the rooms were all in darkness, and they ascended the staircase.†
Chpt 7
- Thus it occurred that, having arrived and opened the lower rooms before six o'clock, she ascended to the bedchambers, and was about to turn the handle of the one wherein they lay.†
Chpt 7
- From the western gate aforesaid the highway, as every Wintoncestrian knows, ascends a long and regular incline of the exact length of a measured mile, leaving the houses gradually behind.†
Chpt 7
- From the middle of the building an ugly flat-topped octagonal tower ascended against the east horizon, and viewed from this spot, on its shady side and against the light, it seemed the one blot on the city's beauty.†
Chpt 7
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)