Verb (used without object) : The airplane ascended into the clouds. ,to ascend to the presidency. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : to ascend a lookout tower; to ascend stairs. ,to ascend the throne. From Dictionary.com.
Bidding our mates good-bye, we prepared to reascend. From Wordnik.com. [The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier] Reference
Too soon, we're back on the ground, exhilarated and longing to reascend. From Wordnik.com. [Branching Out Atop the Met Museum] Reference
At once I suspected that some accident compelled the submarine to reascend. From Wordnik.com. [The Master of the World] Reference
If something~ untoward was discovered, the Sequencer could still veer off and reascend at~ the last moment. From Wordnik.com. [Quozl]
And a few weeks back in the Daily Telegraph, A.N. Wilson speculated that the primary value that will reascend is austerity. From Wordnik.com. [Melissa Biggs Bradley: Why Being Nouveau Pauvre Cheers Britain] Reference
When Cassandra stopped reading her story before the end, the audience protested and made her reascend to the podium to finish. From Wordnik.com. [Fantastic Fiction at KGB » Blog Archive » Photos from the April 15th Reading] Reference
Isbister, feeling that his unsupported talk was losing vigour, suggested that they should reascend the steep and return towards. From Wordnik.com. [When the Sleeper Wakes] Reference
From the regions of mud, dust, leather, and blacking, we will now reascend to the higher localities of the human person, and will fasten ourselves round the reader's neck. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
But she refused to reascend and to examine her hurt. From Wordnik.com. [Widdershins] Reference
Soul would reascend when extricated from matter, 520-m. From Wordnik.com. [Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry] Reference
Souls reascend after purification in forms of life, 518-m. From Wordnik.com. [Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry] Reference
Devil used as a ladder by Dante to reascend to light, 822-m. From Wordnik.com. [Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry] Reference
Soul can reascend only after purification and freedom from the body, 521-u. From Wordnik.com. [Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry] Reference
But here a sudden instinct bade him pause, turn, and reascend to the upper landing. From Wordnik.com. [The Bell-Ringer of Angel's] Reference
He turned to reascend; the furrowed flank of the mountain before him lay full in the moonlight. From Wordnik.com. [On the Frontier] Reference
Hard it is to have thus to reascend the stream down which one has for so long been gently floated!. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of My Youth]
She therefore began to reascend the 'mountain,' as she called the hill, making signs to me to follow. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine] Reference
When they reached level ground the baronial troops rallied, and once more strove to reascend the hill. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377)] Reference
In these circumstances the king was right in not hastening back, as a conqueror, to reascend his throne. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
The concussion of the house often sends down parts of their nest, which they patiently pick up and reascend with. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes of the Civil War] Reference
"Big as you all are, I will dare anything you can do," exclaimed Norman proudly, and he began to reascend the rocks. From Wordnik.com. [Norman Vallery or, How to Overcome Evil with Good] Reference
We were at the mouth of the cavern, and, having completed all our experiences, were about to reascend, when of a sudden. From Wordnik.com. [The Republic] Reference
We heard the Dean reascend the kitchen steps, and make a statement of which the words "drink" and "Dora" alone reached us. From Wordnik.com. [All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches] Reference
When he woke he found he had slept two hours, not one, which was perhaps as well, and by eight he began to reascend the pass. From Wordnik.com. [Erewhon Revisited] Reference
But this proving too hot for comfort, he instantly drew it out, and in his attempt to reascend, he stuck his bespattered toe into. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Cringle's Log] Reference
Nightly he descended 'into chasms and sunless abysses, depths below depths, from which it seemed hopeless that he could ever reascend.'. From Wordnik.com. [Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)] Reference
The task, in short, is to reascend from production to producing activity, which we regard as sufficiently revealed by its natural products. From Wordnik.com. [A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson] Reference
At this same moment the everlasting sun, which had dipped its lower edge into the waters, began slowly to reascend, and lo! this was morning. From Wordnik.com. [An Iceland Fisherman] Reference
I would go down to the river to fetch water, and would reascend the rough mountain pathway, singing a hymn, with the water-bottle on my shoulder. From Wordnik.com. [Tentation de saint Antoine. English] Reference
'Age,' says a wit in the 'Figaro,' 'tis a river which the women compel to reascend to its source when it has flowed onward more than twenty years. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Parisians — Complete] Reference
I became delirious, and quitting that staircase, which methought it was impossible for me to reascend, I sprung forth into the void with an execration. From Wordnik.com. [The Paris Sketch Book] Reference
Legion to reascend the Mount of Olives, and complete the work of fortifying their camp; so that, at the end of the day, the legion could fall back to a place of safety. From Wordnik.com. [For the Temple A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem] Reference
I turned to reascend, but stumbled before I had mounted six steps, and as I tried to rise, felt a weight fall on my back, and the clutch of long fingers close about my throat. From Wordnik.com. [In Kings' Byways] Reference
It was necessary to descend to the bottom of the gully, which grew smaller as it went down, by means of steps cut in the ice, and to reascend in the same way on the other side. From Wordnik.com. [Tartarin On The Alps] Reference
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