Arrange the intervening words in an ascending scale.

Their orisons seemed to speed the ascending figure, which was rising rapidly, when suddenly appeared in air Luxury, Simony, and Cruelty, contending which should receive the Holy Father into her bosom.

Not much more than a year had elapsed since Undine Marvell, sitting in the drawing-room of another Parisian hotel, had heard the immense orchestral murmur of Paris rise through the open windows like the ascending movement of her own hopes.

When the ascending currents are powerful, they create those appearances which astronomers designate the nuclei, the penumbrae, the faculae.

From the semilunar anastomosis radiate two main groups of arterial branches, an ascending group and a descending one.

Another bracket a little higher, and another piece of wood nailed to two poles, raised the next step; and so he went round and round the tree in an ascending spiral, climbing on the steps already placed to fix others above them.

And so the new-born ascending spirit is committed by the Mater gloriosa to the tutelage of Gretchen [Margaret],una poenitentium,now purified from all the stains of her earthly life, to whom is given the injunction: "Lift thyself up to higher spheres!

She stood petrified in dread till the voices fell and she heard stairs creak under an ascending tread.

From this camp to the next water holes at the base of the great snow mountain, it was at least 30 miles, level as to surface, and with a light ascending grade.

Their acuteness, their ascending form, indicate the weakness, and physical sorrow of man.

But, curiously enough, the most striking class of exceptions, if such they be, seems to us even more favorable to the doctrine of derivation than is the general rule of a pure and simple ascending gradation.

We have done for the present, lest our number should interrupt the enjoyment of any of the thousand pedestrians who are at this moment tracking The slow ascending hill, the lofty wood That mantles o'er its brow.

The waters shone like white fire in the wake he cut, great shadows fall through them where island and wood intercepted the broad ascending light, and Mrs. Laudersdale's gay laugh rung across them, as the space grew,a sweet, rich laugh, that all the spirits of the depths caught and played with like a rare beam that transiently illumined their shadowy, silent haunts.

Now, the commotion that imprints a strong impression, communicates to the arms an ascending motion which may lift them high above the head.

If we find a note repeated in the ascending phrase, that note, even if it be the lowest of all, must be made more important than the highest note and will have two degrees of intensity.

Here the forest ceased; the way led on large stones over a marshy ascending plain, but what was above, or on either side, I could not see.

The truth of the matter is that ascending progressions may arise from opposite shades of meaning.

We contrived to get some black bread, hard-boiled eggs, oranges, and helva from one of the little hole-in-the-wall shops near by, watched Pera and its ascending roofs turn to purple, and the purple to gray and black, until Constantinople was but a string of lights across Galata Bridge, and a lamp here and there on the hills.

I beguiled the time by elaborating a multitude of trivial opinions, suggested by objects I saw along the roadside, till the old and new church spires of Surrey came in sight, and the curving lines at either end of the ascending shores.

He, likewise divinely adds, that it is scarcely to be seen; for we can only be conjoined with it through the intelligible, in the vestibule of which it is beheld by the ascending soul.

things may be very different from what we have been taught, or what we may of ourselves desire; but every difference will be the step of an ascending staireach nearer and nearer to the divine perfection which alone can satisfy the children of a God, alone supply the poorest of their cravings.

Being penniless, they will yet hang their black heads over the ascending steam, to gratify one sense if possible, seemingly no less pleased than those domestic animalscatswhen they purr over a new-found sprig of valerian.

As it is dangerous for steamers to meet on these rapids, they have a rule that every steamer coming up the stream must fire a few small cannons as soon as it approaches the Lurlei, so that steamers that are descending may hear it and wait to let the ascending steamer pass before they enter upon the rapids.

" One descends into some of the shafts by a sort of machinery, which looks as if they had placed two iron ladders against each other, each having a rocking movement, so that by treading on the ascending-step on the one side and then on the other, which goes upwards, one gradually ascends, and by going on the downward sinking-step one gets by degrees to the bottom.

The entire upper part of the peak is perfectly bare of vegetation, and covered with fine cinders, rapilli, &c., through which escapes a gas that almost suffocates the ascending traveler.