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Sentence Examples Many traditional climbers braved the elements in the early morning to make the ascent to the top. Small, pale brown leaves covered the ground, and the tortured mesquite trunks twisted and cracked on their upward ascent. It's a six-hour undertaking with a 700m ascent along paths hewed into near-vertical mountainside. After the first hour or so of gentle ascent through a lava flow the climb steepens. Support is legally prescribed and required along descent, ascent, and collateral lines. The stress of the situation must have driven her to push hard in the race, as she rode strongly and powered up the final ascent to win the race. Keep going, however, and an ascent up sloping bedrock will be found at the end on the right. My only real advice is to make sure you walk it in a clockwise direction, otherwise you'll be faced with a long, steep and sustained ascent. Now the 27 year old from Pamplona is hitting the steepest part of the ascent, and gritting his teeth as the road ramps up. A gutsy group of Ukrainians has made the world's first underground balloon ascent in a disused coal mine in Doneck. As the balloon began its historic ascent, someone nearby questioned the usefulness of this new invention. Wind measurements were performed every 4 h by tracking the ascent of a pilot balloon by radar. His sky-rocket ascent was almost certainly powered by bribery, manipulation, and other chicanery. Walk alongside Mosedale Beck and after a short while gaze in awe at the steep ascent summoning you. At the end of its ascent, the balloon bursts from the lack of air pressure in near space. Both men will begin their ascent on Saturday morning, continuing their hike up the mountain on Sunday. An hour or two before launch the guidance software that controls the vehicle's ascent is loaded. Keith began his ascent in the circus, running a sideshow populated with freaks, strongmen, fortune-tellers, and other wonders. The rapid ascent to high altitudes strained the silk beyond the tolerance limit. In the time remaining, and amid much giggling, we inflated our balloons, ready for the ascent. Show More Sentences It ascended slowly and without sound, maintaining constant ascent and flight path towards the center of Manhattan. China's ascent could inflame an already heated debate in the U.S. about companies sending work abroad. Ariane 44L carries four large liquid strap-on boosters to augment the launcher's thrust at liftoff and during the initial ascent. As the balloon continued its ascent, propelled by the heat from the flames, gas tanks inside the balloon ignited and caused an explosion. In July 1925 Friedmann made a record-breaking ascent in a balloon to 7400 metres to make meteorological and medical observations. Both heart rate and wingbeat frequency were significantly higher during ascent than later in the flight. I thought about the origin of all square numbers and discovered that they arose from the regular ascent of odd numbers. Because of the angle, we were canted back in our seats rather like being in an aircraft when it makes a steep ascent. Most people consider acne to be a consequence of being a teenager, as though it were a rite of passage marking the ascent into adulthood. Mary's ascent to the throne was clouded with the actions of the Duke of Northumberland and Lady Jane Grey. The broad story of Capote's ascent to literary greatness and descent into decades of writer's block in that time is well known. A fall might entail disastrous consequences, and, therefore, the ascent should be attempted only by experienced cragsmen. Hiking out, we talked about our ascent of the northwest buttress of Cloud Peak, trying to sound congratulatory. She was startled back to the present when the car began its bumpy ascent up the brick drive to her grandmother's house. The third movement is an unbroken, unhesitating ascent into Paradise, and the final movement finds us serenely lodged there. Meanwhile, MacLeod will remain unfazed by such compliments while continuing his ascent to the sport's summit. He bonked over the next ascent, losing more than a minute, and the overall leader's mantle, to The Falcon. Reaching the shrouds hanging from Kaliakra's starboard side, he began his ascent. After crossing the line, he talked of the hard time he had on the ascent, as he couldn't drink after he lost his bidon after 8-9 km. That stubborn single-mindedness sustained him in his ascent and his struggles in Suharto's system, and gave him his charisma. Show More Sentences The ascent is one of the most daring exploits of the cragsmen of the Island. I was betrothed to Deshan and sent to Pegasus shortly after my ascent to womanhood. His exploits included a record ascent of Hidden Peak in 1958, but he spent the rest of his life humbly downplaying the famous belay. One of the main reasons is the rapid ascent of Vietnam from the bottom to the top of the world coffee production league in the last decade. It began, inauspiciously, as a summer league team, but its dizzying ascent to prominence since then has been nothing short of meteoric. During the ascent it smartly taps the bark, prising off fragments and frequently extracting food from crevices with the tip of its sticky tongue. These we passed on the way up, an ascent made easy to Nab Farm by a metalled track. Fortunately, Crowe's ascent to megastardom has brought at least one of these forgotten films out on DVD for us to enjoy belatedly. Where she used to make the climb from the basement, carrying a laundry basket, now she finds the ascent daunting. They began their ascent again as he stepped back and let the shadows mask him. That first ascent was a good scramble, with a little light rock climbing and much vertigo. With respect to orbit altitude, four of six planned ascent burns have been completed. The magmatic fabric of a plutonic rock forms during a relatively short time interval, after ascent and before final crystallization of magma. If such adiabatic freezing were to control the ascent of hydrous mafic magmas, basalts would probably never erupt in volcanic arcs. The longest leg of the journey is then the sail to Fort William and the final ascent of Ben Nevis. A sharp turn on the approach would mean that heavy goods vehicles would be in a low gear at the start of the ascent. She argues for the ascent of a heterosexual heroine who wields socio-sexual power without becoming a desexualized or asexualized creature. Though Arthur was initially shocked by his ascent to the presidency, he rose to the occasion. He is black, and some people were quick to credit his ascent to affirmative action and his editors' desire for a more diverse reporting staff. But their ascent to this status depended largely on the processes of industrialisation, urbanisation and commodification. Show More Sentences He had by-passed a stone-age dolmen on his ascent and skirted the mound of a ring-fort. What laid the basis for the stock market's dizzying ascent was a major, long-term easing of credit. Old, formerly discredited ideas about race and culture are on the ascent once again. To make a long story short, my coveted difficult first ascent was dispatched with ease. We'll see if, like his brother, Stephen can feast on Indy League pitching before making a rapid ascent to the bigs. His progressive thinking is what has led to his quick ascent to the top of the world-renowned development studio. But soon the silent bliss was ended, as the sun slowly began its morning ascent, and the early wakers came to life. Bruno restored the balance from teetering totally towards the canvas by his ascent to a brief reign as holder of a version of the world title. Cowley lock had a sprinkling of gongoozlers as we started the ascent of the canal which only finishes atop the Chiltern Escarpment at Tring. Faults provide additional pathways, such as dykes, for magma transport and also may help to degas the magma during its ascent. Happily these acclivities wound up the interior of the volcano and favored their ascent. Utzon was clearly conscious of the symbolic significance and emotional impact of a religious processional ascent. They had built Fort St. David in Cuddalore and they raised an army here and began their ascent to power. Despite his gradual ascent up the World Cup rankings, his lifestyle has remained far from glamorous. Thus began Cooper's serendipitous ascent into the more rarified air of the arts and crafts. After a while we began a gentle ascent of the Little Homer Saddle, the only climb in the whole walk. He encountered buoyancy problems during his ascent, so he headed directly to the surface without decompressing. And fortunately, it is a story that grows ever less likely to be repeated with the ascent to the bench of increasing numbers of females. Just minutes earlier, the plane had leveled off after a steep corkscrew ascent. He rejoined us at the crest of the first ridge, where the wall leveled out and began a more gradual ascent to the peak. Show More Sentences The overall metamorphic and geochronometric characteristics of the Sudetes suggest that exhumation was dominated by rapid vertical ascent. Everyone is upstaged by Eileen Atkins as wealthy Miss Matilda Crawley, the cantankerous dame who sponsors Becky's social ascent. When you reach the rushes and a good stone track, you've done the ascent, the rest is a cruise. In cold advection the cyclonically rotating ascent to the right is opposed by decent forced by the linear pressure perturbation. The human being is the ultimate form of creation from which the next step in spiritual evolution is reunion with or ascent into the Godhead. It's a long climb, a brutal ascent by any standard, but that severity is the mountain's saving grace. With this ascent, a climb I had done many a time before, I felt as though I were awakening every muscle in my body! The ascent has to be achieved on the first day and is rewarded on the second day with a spectacular sunrise and panoramic view of Costa Rica. Some are clearly panicked by the experience and liable to rush their ascent. Since the company's launch, and steep ascent into cyberspace, I had left my friends and family behind. It took two days and a night, and involved the ascent of two mountains and an evening descent upon a rotten glacier. The long and easy ascent of the hill is rewarded by extensive views in all directions from the summit. After decades of quiet ascent, Tokyo has become the roisterous epicenter of a sophisticated and constantly evolving global youth culture. The long, winding ascent past flat-roofed villages, and groves of almond and olive-like argan trees brings one to the Col de Kerdous. He hung onto a lobster pot for a couple of minutes until he realised his predicament, and made his ascent as slowly as he could. But his latest trip had been the experience of a lifetime, he said, with highs and lows to match any Himalayan mountain ascent. Greetings cybernauts this is Vern Tejas with Alpine Ascents' 2003 Mt Everest ascent. Despite that, the most straightforward route of ascent is on this side of the hill. The stages in Stalin's ascent were marked by crushing opposition on the grandest scale. Bear right through the gate off the main path and begin the steep, steep ascent directly to the summit. Show More Sentences But while my peers reveled in their social ascent, a countercurrent of despair lay directly in my particular path. In mid December, the dog teams turned back, leaving the rest to face the ascent of the Beardmore Glacier and the polar plateau. The ascent of the mountain's northern flanks look fearsome from here but, although steep, there were no real difficulties. We'll end our journey in triumph with the ascent of Ben Nevis, Scotland's highest mountain. Elizabeth, in her riding habit, is about to begin her ascent up the mountain. Three of North America's best climbers spent two days making the first ascent of this same route 20 years previously. We finned back along the port side and, after a bottom time of 15 minutes, our slow ascent up the shotline commenced. Wind measurements were performed every 4 hours by tracking the ascent of a pilot balloon by radar. I don't suppose many alpinists would have committed such a picayune ascent to paper, but I found the exercise useful. You should therefore avoid a quick ascent and take time to acclimatise to the mountains' oxygen challenged air. It involves negotiating mountainous routes through snow and the ice of glaciers as well as the ascent of rock routes in a glaciated environment. This was a long, challenging day with groups climbing either Number 4 Gully or Ledge Route rather than the easier ascent by the tourist path. We in the states like to think how China is ascending, but assume that ascent is still years off. When the young woman is ready to emerge from her weeks in hiding, she attends a ceremony marking her ascent into true womanhood. You have to take a long-term look at the ascent of something that fundamentally changes the power structure of America. In October 2006, she pioneered the first ascent of Nagpai Gusun, a 7,000-meter peak in the Khumbu region. Watching Paar do his last Tonight show was almost like witnessing an ascent into clouds. During this ascent Mr. Glaisher's hands became quite blue, and he experienced a qualmish sensation in the brain and stomach, resembling the approach of sea-sickness. A clever combination of flavours brought the ascent from the salty sea flavour of caviar through to piquant dill and the warmness of chives with cream. Instead a gentler ascent seemed just the job, so I opted for the short, three-hour round trip to the top of 2,861-foot Moel Siabod, above Capel Curig. Show More Sentences My first encounter with a rare herd of red deer wintering in the Austrian Alps came after a four-hour ascent on skis through snowed-in forests and steep terrain. Less weight equals less fatigue on the ascent, and releasable skis are safer in avalanches because they don't act as anchors pulling victims down. They may involve several independent elements, such as orbiters, sub-satellites, landers, rovers, penetrators, airborne robots, planetary ascent vehicles or re-entry vehicles. You can stand your feet on the same edge, angulate better than you can on skis, and now split-boards take away the problem of ascent in deep snow. Flames licked out of the exhaust as the plane lifted off the runway and began the ascent, and as the noise faded into the distance it seemed to get even more intense. The fact that the route over the mountain began with the ascent of the steepest face, and that this was the route of frequent steeplechases, was not coincidental. Staying in climbing huts along the route, her group of 52 walkers began the ascent through terrain which ranged from desert to Arctic-like conditions. They had left the hamlet and circled to the far side of the hill before beginning their ascent, threading their way through rocks and scrub to the wood straddling the crest. It also includes an overnight ascent of Mount Sinai to watch the sunrise over the mountains, a breathtaking experience well worth the three-hour walk up. Its ascent makes a good introduction to the hill walking game and provides a fairly stiff afternoon's walk with the reward of extensive views from the summit on a good day. She couldn't help giggling as they began their ascent up a huge hill. It was he who first taught me that the ascent of mountains was an act of mystery, a way in to the greatest perplexities of human place in the land. One Scot ran past me on my ascent of the highest mountain in Britain. In another sixty or seventy yards the tunnel would begin a final ascent to its exit on the western side of the arroyo where Axler's men would be waiting with their transport. We got to the first landing, the ascent upwards being a series of long curves and short straights, when I heard Rafferty's voice calling on us to wait up. As flight director, Mr Noble, who attended Burnley Grammar School and took up ballooning in 1974, was to mastermind the ascent and ensure the pilots return safely to earth. Luckily when you are on the ascent the path cleverly twists and turns over the one-step streams to make the going reasonable, avoiding the worst. Whether or not he gets back in one piece depends very much on a successful take-off and ascent to a relatively calm cruising altitude of up to 45,000 ft. No need for rockets, ramjets, or other propulsive technologies, and the ascent to orbit can be made in a far more benign, safe environment than within a rocket. For example, after the shuttle has entered orbit, the cargo bay doors open to help release much of the pent-up heat created during liftoff and ascent. Show More Sentences It signifies the ascent to power of a new kind of American, one profoundly at odds with that older type who aspired to modesty and self-restraint. His ascent to his current post would be because Secretary Rice has confidence is his ability and character, not because he is a stalking horse for the Democrats. The captain's story is conspicuously smooth, a vertical ascent to stardom. Her ascent to the presidentship of the Kerala Electricity Board Employees Confederation had attracted attention not least because of the controversy it led to. With the advent of the electronic media, these popular forms gained new outlets and, in the case of jazz and film, began a rapid ascent to the level of genuine art. The ascent of star presenter over stubborn creator will be dissected in the coming weeks, along with the sacred cows of public subsidy and the education industry. The tanks were used to fuel the descent and ascent stage rocket engines of the lunar module that landed astronauts on the moon and returned them to orbit. An awkward ascent, hopping from tussocks to old stumps through a deep mire, and then a stiff climb up steep screes, led to the high point of the circuit, the John Garner Pass. While Meall a'Ghiubhais is a straightforward climb from the path, the steep screes and formidable northern crags of Ruadh-stac Beag makes a direct ascent almost impossible. There are ascent routes from this side of the hill but probably the most straightforward route is from the south side, avoiding the worst of the screes. Back then, today was supposed to be the official beginning of the slow and ineluctable ascent to the White House. The places of ascent or descent are reached by means of stairways. During the climb weather conditions deteriorated to such an extent that the group and their guides faced snow, sleet and rain showers during the ascent. The ascent of naif spells the death of reform and human rights in Saudi Arabia. But in 1970, a rival Italian mountaineer sparked doubts about the Cerro Torre ascent when he suggested in a magazine article that the peak was still unclimbed. Although they found the unclimbed 6,618 metre mountain, which is also known as Mount Edgar, their ascent was halted by heavy snow, avalanches and dehydration. So which companies can manage both a steep ascent and an unpowered glide? The two plan to retrace an unrepeated first ascent claimed 45 years ago. The ascent from the road is untaxing, but it was a very boggy descent. The climb ahead was nearly vertical in ascent with few to none hand holds. Show More Sentences The elevator grinds loudly, about to reach the limit of its ascent. Ill-prepared, with no sun-cream and little water, we set off across the gently inclined shoulder linking us to the final stages of our Lugnaquilla ascent. Anyone who has ever dreaded stepping on the scale will relate when he reminisces about his dreaded ascent to size 42 Gap khakis. But the belief in ascent on the basis of merit alone began to run up against new realities. We made our ascent on pony, winding our way over cinders and ash. Rapid ascent of hydrothermal fluids derived from shallow-metamorphic and deep-burial diagenetic settings is well known from many sedimentary basins. They are both prevalent the Indo-Pacific and Atlantic, which argues for their ascent to dominance before connectivity between each region was lost. There's definitely no need for ropes and pitons for this ascent. At approximately 3,500m altitude, my ears pop, and the mild breeze filtering into the car becomes a cold torrent, and the ascent suddenly increases. Doria divers have been swept off the anchorline used to reach the wreck or misjudged their breathing gas supply and run out or failed to properly decompress on the ascent. Her professional life continues its steady ascent, and the novel culminates with her promotion to the position of assistant minister of education. The descent and ascent should both be at the same moderate pace. Its emphasis is on the exoatmospheric ascent phase for intercept. To this portal ascent is made by a mystic, indisputably prologetic, flight of steps. There is also a direct ascent up the western slopes starting at Mill Bridge. The direct ascent noted by Wainwright from the hamlet appears to have access problems. Lanty Scar provides the obvious line of ascent from Rydal, while the spur rising over Todd Crag leads up from Clappersgate. Dubs can also be reached from the summit of Honister via the Drum House, significantly reducing the ascent required. From here a stiff ascent up what may have been a landslip leads directly to the summit. Tower Ridge is the longest of the north face's four main ridges, with around 600 metres of ascent. Show More Sentences This route involves a total of 1,500 metres of ascent and requires modest scrambling ability and a head for heights. Another early ascent was in 1774 by John Williams, who provided the first account of the mountain's geological structure. Beginning in the nineteenth century, with the ascent of academic history, there developed a body of historiographic literature. In addition, the first emergency swimming ascent was made by a diver after his air line became tangled and he had to cut it free. The ascent and emplacement of large volumes of granite within the upper continental crust is a source of much debate amongst geologists. The mountains which have lined the road on the left here cross it and the road makes a very sharp ascent, going over them. France promoted commerce and capitalism, paving the way for the ascent of the bourgeoisie and the rapid growth of manufacturing and mining. The first balloon ascent in Britain was made by James Tytler on 25 August 1784 at Edinburgh, Scotland, in a hot air balloon. The legumes spread, while sedges, bulrushes, and ferns continued their ascent. The crew can prevent a lung injury from the pressure change known as pulmonary barotrauma by exhaling during the ascent. The hailstone gains an ice layer and grows increasingly larger with each ascent. Another highlight for travellers was the cliff ascent and walks at Piercefield. Publishes books for bookly minded folk and THE STEP LADDER, a monthly journal of bookly ascent. Conveying this ascent by a Lamarckian tree diagram, Green insists that nature is not static but dynamically organized. In this position he won great acclaim, which formed the basis for his political ascent. I hope that my spirits and emotions will join them in this ascent. Once he had drunk the intoxicating soma, he experienced an ascent to the gods without having to die a violent death, as in the old ritual. A distinction can be made by defining any ascent as a climb, when hands are used to hold body weight, rather than just for balance. Hannibal knew enough about the Alps to know in particular that the descent was steeper than the ascent into the Alps. He, along with his expedition, made the first ascent of Mount Erebus and the discovery of the approximate location of the South Magnetic Pole. Show More Sentences Hillwalking is a British English term for a form of hiking which involves the ascent of hills. Traditionally, these plutons have been considered to form by ascent of relatively buoyant magma in large masses called plutonic diapirs. A technique for Theurgic ascent in the Mithras liturgy, the Chaldean Oracles and some Mithraic frescoes. Compared with the many questions on his origins, Kenneth's ascent to power and subsequent reign can be dealt with simply. Michael became the 162nd person to die on Mount Everest after his record-breaking ascent. Upon his ascent, he began modernizing Ethiopia and recentralizing power in the Emperor. The direct ascent of the fell is usually started from the Borrowdale road midway between Rosthwaite and Seatoller. The classic ascent via Lord's Rake path from Wastwater follows the main Scafell Pike footpath to Hollow Stones, then up to Lord's Rake. Those deep, dark slots in a mountain known as couloirs are often the most obvious routes of ascent. The first recorded ascent of Pillar Rock was made in 1826 by John Atkinson of Croftfoot, Ennerdale. It includes the other fells of Hopegill Head, Eel Crag, Sail, Scar Crags and Causey Pike with over 1300 metres of ascent. One of the most popular ascent routes of Dale Head begins from the summit of Honister Pass, where there is a car park and a youth hostel. Wainwright recorded more routes of ascent for Blencathra than any other fell. The same thing happened in the Irish Republican Army, with the ascent of Cathal Goulding. About 200m of ascent can be saved by driving to the top of Gale Road and beginning from the public carpark just behind the summit of Latrigg. Model T Register club registrar Neil Tucket has been planning the ascent for 10 years. What's more, the super cat can hold onto the entire pebbledash surface of the walls while making his vertical ascent. Those wishing to climb Napes Needle should be warned that a safe descent is far more difficult than the ascent as there are no permanent anchors or bolts from which to abseil. I created Teatro hoping to establish a conversional anecdote targeting the cultural and intellectual ascent in the aspects of philosophy, art and literature. Wahba also observed that there is no new Latin region on the ascent. Show More Sentences The first Austrasian mayors came from the Pippinid family, which experienced a slow but steady ascent until it eventually displaced the Merovingians on the throne. There are extensive views of Coniston Water from the two cairns which Wainwright visits on the ascent, and from the track used for the return journey. A side effect is that passengers experience some discomfort as the cabin pressure changes during ascent and descent to the majority of airports, which are at low altitudes. In ascent, every step gained is a footing and help to the next. To be properly equipped, participants should also wear an emergency parachute and carry a map and variometer which charts rates of ascent and descent as well as height. The shortest route of ascent is from the car park in Glen Trool. It is joined for most of this zigzag ascent by the Pyg Track, and on reaching the summit ridge, is united with the Llanberis Path and Snowdon Ranger Path. The route over Y Lliwedd is more frequently used for descent than ascent, and forms the second half of the Snowdon Horseshoe walk, the ascent being over Crib Goch. With the ascent of Charles I in 1516 and his election as sovereign of the Holy Roman Empire in 1519, Francis I of France found himself surrounded by Habsburg territories. Though it can be climbed from almost any direction, the easiest and simplest ascent is from the east, where a grassy slope rises above Dunsapie Loch. The easiest ascent is by 360-degree rotating cablecar, a five-minute trip which costs less than pounds 10 return, with special family and group packages even less. Western Europe also experienced economic, population and urban growth in the 12th and 13th centuries leading to the ascent of medieval medical universities. The ascent of the House of Tudor to the throne of England eased hostilities between the English and resulted in Caernarfon Castle falling into a state of disrepair. However, with the ascent of the Hittite empire, Mitanni and Egypt made an alliance to protect their mutual interests from the threat of Hittite domination. Hawse End is also served by the Derwent Water Motor Launch and this enables visitors to Keswick to combine a sail on the lake with an ascent of the fell. Alpe-d'Huez, with its 21 hairpin bends, is a fabled ascent and Froome would dearly love to win there in the yellow jersey to cement a second Tour title. The first recorded ascent of Ben Nevis was made on 17 August 1771 by James Robertson, an Edinburgh botanist, who was in the region to collect botanical specimens. It was May now and summer was on the ascent, the nights were warm but not yet clawingly humid and the constant South Dakota breeze was strangely absent tonight. The economic ascent of Zhengzhou has created yet another power nexus that is not located on Chinaas more traditionally powerful corridor on the East Coast. The trip will also examine the impact of acute mountain sickness, a debilitating condition often experienced on ascent to high altitude, on ability to stave off illness. Show More Sentences An alternate view is that plutons commonly are formed not by ascent of large magma diapirs, but rather by aggregation of smaller volumes of magma that ascend as dikes. It was a technical ascent involving ropework, belays, and protection, and the exposure was great, but there were abundant hand and footholds, and the rock was sound. Harriet Martineau in 1855 described the ascent from Patterdale. The mantle's flow is driven by the descent of cold tectonic plates during subduction and the complementary ascent of plumes of hot material from lower levels. These experiments investigate the ascent of a slug of gas in a vertical liquid-filed tube featuring a flare that abruptly doubles the cross sectional area. Immiseration and desperation in Germany contributed to Hitler's ascent to power and indirectly to World War II, in which France had to be saved by its allies. There is a difficult northern ascent from Malaucene of Mont Ventoux. Examples from Classical Literature The work on the glacier was the beginning of the ceaseless grind which the ascent of Denali demands. Let the ascent to it be not by steps 16 but by an acclivity of raised earth. Above that height the air suddenly becomes warmer, and then cools with ascent at a rate somewhat less than the adiabatic rate. By the way, you were all reading about that ascent of the aiguille Verte, the other day? Further, by compressing the air inside the air bag, the rate of ascent or descent could be regulated. They were near the crown of the ascent, and he could carry her as far as that! The descent was as laborious as the ascent had been, and much more dangerous. The ascent was perilous at any hour to any foot save that of a mountaineer. There appeared to be no ascent the one way or the other, and no slope on either side. From Thann the ascent of the ballon d'Alsace may be made, but the place itself must on no account be missed. But these wide chimneys, if they allowed ascent, also permitted descent, and many a house was entered and burgled by this means. For a hundred feet or so the ascent was practicable only by means of bosses of the club moss that clings to the rock. The only ascent to this cragged fortress was by roads cut in the rock, so rugged in many places as to resemble broken stairs. They were enlargements from those he had taken of poor Radcliffe's last ascent. The forest at the base of this ascent was principally composed of deodar and Gerard's pine. Pinus Gerardiana gradually diminished in number during the ascent, and at last disappeared about the same time as the deodar. The ascent towards the ridge was latterly steep, with a good deal of silver fir and deodar. An entrance-passage, the dromos, led from the valley to the tholos in a gently inclined ascent. There is a gradual ascent to the steps, and the final flight of 41 brings the excursionist to the gate and to the sunshine. Three other men were going up at the same time, who filled the narrow ascent with garlicky effluvia. Show More Sentences After a pause recurs the phrase that harks from mediaeval romance, now in a stirring ascent of close chasing voices. Its summit elevation is nearly 15,000 feet, and in 1881 Langley made its ascent for the purpose of measuring the solar constant. There was, too, very special danger in making an ascent in a hot-air balloon. But Chet felt the ship lift and lurch, then settle down to a swift, spiralling ascent. Remember that it is easiest to leap from one register to a higher, a stepwise ascent being an insidious snare. At Thankote, eight miles from katmandu, we dismounted, and commenced in earnest the ascent of the Chandernagiri. They had not climbed so far above the river as they had imagined from the laboriousness of the ascent. It was four o'clock when we began the ascent of the switchback at the top of the valley. Thus they have prevented the ascent of Mount Tongariro, which is tapu, or sacred. The second topman gingerly hoisted the last link in the shaky line of ascent. I could now follow the ascent of the boat without consulting the manometer. In 1877 he published a narrative of his travels in Transcaucasia, with an account of his ascent of Mount Ararat. At the village first reached in the ascent there is a meliaceous Azedarach looking tree. The first ascent was made by montgolfier in 1782, and he was followed by Rosiers and d'Arlandes. This is the incalculable good which the ascent of Mount Everest will confer. The ascent of Mount Everest, we believe, will be a big step in that direction. From time to time during the ascent I examined the polarisation of the sky. Descent and ascent when thus applied to the soul are metaphorical. His ascent of Mont Blanc in 1890 was undertaken with this object. Let us rather resolve that our ambition shall soar with our corporal ascent. Show More Sentences The climb was a more simple thing now that the rope dangled down the face of the worst part of the ascent. The drive is a slow and toilsome ascent of three hours and a half. I was conveyed to church in a sedan chair on account of the steep ascent. The ascent continued to Thivirs, a tiny village of the Dordogne. What should you do if you were caught by some one at the Nara ascent? The clouds by this time seemed to have done their worst, for a lovely day succeeded, which we determined to devote to an ascent of the Faulhorn. While the crowd was ogling this ascent, I walked through the temple doors. Observe the prints of my goloshes on the steep ascent, and take courage. Hamel was the Russian gentleman of the party which made the ascent at the time of the famous disaster. The descent was as anxious and hazardous as the ascent had been laborious. Implying hereby the heliacal ascent and Cosmical descent of those stars. If the ascent to mola is difficult, what can be said of the coming down? The Stairs were then let down, whether to dare The Fiend by easie ascent, or aggravate His sad exclusion from the dores of Bliss. Find more words! 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