Citations:ascent


 * 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.