Citations:ascending
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English citations of ascending
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- 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
- He ran thus till he came at a place somewhat ascending, and upon that place stood a cross, and a little below, in the bottom, a sepulchre.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:
- For one, I used to lounge up the rigging very leisurely, resting in the top to have a chat with Queequeg, or any one else off duty whom I might find there; then ascending a little way further, and throwing a lazy leg over the top-sail yard, take a preliminary view of the watery pastures, and so at last mount to my ultimate destination.