What is "ascends"

Usage examples of "ascends".

Thus the child is born and embraced by the mother, the liberated hero ascends from the underworld to return home after his far-flung odyssey.

Albert had himself presided at the arrangement, or, rather, the symmetrical derangement, which, after coffee, the guests at a breakfast of modern days love to contemplate through the vapor that escapes from their mouths, and ascends in long and fanciful wreaths to the ceiling.

Abreast of Cotopaxi the road cuts through high hills of fine pumice inter-stratified with black earth, and rapidly ascends till it reaches Tiupullo, eleven thousand five hundred feet above the sea.

The black bear of the Andes ascends as high as Mont Blanc, and is rarely found below three thousand five hundred feet.

Divine Intelligence, whenever it ascends toward the Sublime Treasures.

Unity, that sublime centre to which the chain of causes necessarily ascends, was the august Idea toward which all the ideas of Pythagoras converged.

As the Inferior man ascends from the lowest matter even to the First Cause, so the Superior Adam descends from the Simple and Infinite Act, even to the lowest and most attenuated Potence.

Faust ascends to Heaven, by stepping on the head of the vanquished Mephistopheles.

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Luke ascends to David through Nathan, through whose namesake, the prophet, God expiated his sin.

San Domingo, on the Rio Grande, a sentinel every morning ascends to the top of the highest house, at sunrise, and looks out eastward for the coming of the great chief.

In San Domingo, on the Rio Grande, a sentinel every morning ascends to the roof of the highest house at sunrise and looks out eastward for the coming of the great chief.

The later Pythagoreans and Platonists seem to have believed that the same numerical ethereal body with which the soul was at first created adhered to it inseparably during all its descents into grosser bodies, a lucid and wingy vehicle, which, purged by diet and catharms, ascends again, bearing the soul to its native seat.

He who writes down The good ones after every action closes His volume and ascends to God.