| I heard the sounds not as an ascension toward serenity but as a Dantean descent straight to the center of my own collapsing world. |
| First there is pulverisation, then solidification, then solution with ascension and distillation, and a melting and mixing together. |
| Right ascension makes it easy to use the apparent diurnal rotation of the celestial sphere as a means to telling time. |
| Besides, has not aerostatic science made great progress since the ascensions of Blanchard? |
| So, having nothing else to do, I joined a circus again, and made my balloon ascensions until the earthquake caught me. |
| From the chimneys of the farmhouses thin ascensions of blue smoke signaled preparations for a day's peaceful toil. |
