With these words he sprang like a young nightingale among the myrtles, and climbing from bough to bough ascended through the foliage to the summit of a tree. I observed wings upon his shoulders, and between them a bow and arrows, but to my great astonishment, a moment afterwards I could see neither him nor them.

He had been completely under his wife's ascendancy.

He ascended.

Let us labor for that larger and larger comprehension of truth, that more and more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.

In a moment the young fellows had dismounted, fastened their horses, and were ascending the precipitous slope which led up to the object which had excited their curiosity.

Sort the numbers in ascending order.

I start from sleep, the parapet ascend, / and from the sloping roof with eager ears attend.

The road ascends steeply from that point.

The smoke ascended into the air.

This mountain path ascends to the beautiful lake.