Citations:ascent
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English citations of ascent
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- 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
- Now, as Christian went on his way, he came to a little ascent, which was cast up on purpose that pilgrims might see before them.
- 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
- I thought of pursuing the devil; but it would have been in vain, for another flash discovered him to me hanging among the rocks of the nearly perpendicular ascent of Mont Saleve, a hill that bounds Plainpalais on the south.
- The ascent is precipitous, but the path is cut into continual and short windings, which enable you to surmount the perpendicularity of the mountain.