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The difference between your flesh and the animate power within, which can feel, understand, and love, in that very ascending order, will be clear to you in ten thousand ways, ten thousand times over.
Chpt 1 *

ascending = moving from least important to most important
Orange sparks ascended from wave-like sheets of flame
Chpt 7 *

ascended = moved upward
The road from Acereto to Lanciata was steep in places, ascending to the ridge line of the low mountains that from the rooftops of Rome looked like the Alps, and then twisting dizzily into sheltered valleys where herds of sheep glowed in the moonlight like patches of snow.†
Chpt 1
They ascended the Schlern itself, the Roterd Spitze (which they called the Cima Rossa) and the Mittagskofl.†
Chpt 1
After dismissing them he would ascend not to his room but to the room of the blonde girl in the velvet dress.†
Chpt 1
He wanted to hold her, to kiss her, to breathe-in her breath, and he bumped against the stairs in the dark and started to ascend to the upper floors and their dizzying, intimate warrens.†
Chpt 1
Ascending with their heavy frame packs was agony, and by the time they reached their camp it was dark.†
Chpt 2
As you ascend, you remove the pins I've driven and knock out the chocks.†
Chpt 2
As the train ascended into the ice world, Alessandro and Janet flushed with heat of their own making.†
Chpt 3
And the horses, pathetically rotund, frozen, floating in time, bared their teeth in the fight, like dogs, as their enemies and their allies ascended quietly into the place of the imagination where their motion evaporated and left them infinitely wise.†
Chpt 3
The wind got stronger and stronger as they left the lowlands and ascended to plains with not a single tree to stop it.†
Chpt 5
They ascended in this madness, climbing up and up, until they flew among the higher and thicker clouds, in the soft and rosy walls of which they would disappear and from which they would then suddenly burst in surprise.†
Chpt 6
It was not a hopeless fall, for as they shot downward they fought the air, and, ascending momentarily with great strain, they sailed off to left or right, and circled about on the plateau they had marked, before another dizzying drop, another spreading of wings, and another partial ascension.†
Chpt 6
When I run them past my mind's eye, the Bindo Altoviti, La Tempesta, the Uccelli, and all the others that have been provided to me not only by painters but by the sun as it sets or shines on saffron-colored buildings, the sight of perfectly proportioned squares, the gallerie, the cortili, I see something that is alive, like a song, and in the songs that rise in my memory like curling columns of smoke, up from the darkness in opera houses, ascending on the heat of the footlights to swirl in the empty space above, I see the faces of the people I love, the faces of my parents, and Guariglia, and Ariane...and they almost come alive.†
Chpt 7
Those who had forgotten to snuff their candles did so, and they started out again, this time on pure snow that ascended in an incredibly steep hump to a great wall of rock.†
Chpt 7
Soon, having ascended even more rapidly than they might have expected, the two soldiers were a hundred meters above the snow ramp.†
Chpt 7
Hoping that the floor and the ledges of the thousand-meter fissure he was about to ascend would be relatively free of snow, he began to climb.†
Chpt 7
Alessandro ascended rapidly on wide ledges remarkably free of snow.†
Chpt 7
As the formation intersected the line of the boulevard, the chain of birds locked wing in quick succession to meet a strong gust of wind and, like a kite's tail following an ascending kite, rocketed upward as if they had been launched from a ramp.†
Chpt 8
The souls, too, were visible as they ascended, and the luminous host could be seen from a great distance away as it moved in the vast and terrible spaces along the line.†
Chpt 9
It ascended in perfect containment, its detonations noiseless, its fires compressed, and it floated over the mountains, flooding them with light.†
Chpt 10
Perhaps he could go down the hill slowly, cross the fields, and then climb up again, timing his steps, as his father had done, so long before, in ascending to his office.†
Chpt 10

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(1) (ascend as in: ascend the mountain)
to move or slope upward -- sometimes figuratively as when climbing the corporate ladder
(2) (ascend as in: in ascending order)
move up a scale -- as from smaller numbers to larger, or lower notes to higher
(3) (ascend as in: ascend higher figuratively)
figuratively, to rise to a better situation
(4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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A Soldier of the Great War
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