she flung out, rage for the moment in ascendent.

In the fifth century before Christthe first century of democracygreat orators arose, for without the power and the opportunity of defending himself against accusation no man could hold an ascendent position.

Under Cyrus they became the ascendent power in Asia, and maintained their ascendency until their conquest by Alexander.

The chief of the ascendent political party was the real ruler.

It was one of those "decisive battles" that made Prussia the ascendent power in Germany, and destroyed the prestige of Austria.

Ever since, this has been the aim as well as the duty of a chancellor of the exchequer whatever party has been in the ascendent.

He loved office dearly, and hence he did not yield gracefully to the triumph of the ascendent party, which grew stronger every day.

The Southern politicians may not have wished to root out manufacturing altogether, but it was their policy to keep the agricultural interests in the ascendent.

And I repeat, therefore, but not to be rude, I repeat in Latin Excudent alii meliús spirantia signa, Credo equidem vivos ducent de marmore vultus: Altius ascendent: at tu caput, Eva, memento Sandalo ut infringas referenti oracula tanta.

It was more than apparent, however, that in the case of the son, Sylvia's "type" was in the ascendent; but it must be set down to Sylvia's credit that the circumstance of successful competition gave her no satisfaction.

The whole force employed in the construction has an upward tendency, and the spire is the completion of the edifice; for to the spire its countless soaring lineslines not of stationary strength, but of ascendent growthconverge.

I have an impression that ever since T.H. Green's time absolute idealism has been decidedly in the ascendent at Oxford.

It is in the ascendent at my own university of Harvard.

It was the old story, "the great man down," for he died in poverty and neglect, but with his better self in the ascendent.

They call me Phalguna because I was born on the breast of the Himavat on a day when the constellation Uttara Phalguna was on the ascendent.