"My means ofascent and descent consist simply in dilating or contracting the gas that is in the balloon by the application of different temperatures, and here is the method of obtaining that result.

It prompted the matron to say that she would walk a little way--as far as to the point where the acclivity from the valley began its first steepascent to the outer world.

When we began thatascent, we could see a microscopic chalet perched away up against heaven on what seemed to be the highest mountain near us.

He saw how many knights had broken their necks in vain, but undaunted he approached the steep mountain on foot and began theascent.

There was no accumulation of fallen debris, forming a more or less roughascent to them, as is the case with nearly all other cliffs I have ever seen.

But there was no other way and with a shrug, which I must admit was half shudder, I stepped to the window's outer sill and began my perilousascent.

Now Nietzsche believed that the first or the noble-morality conduced to anascent in the line of life; because it was creative and active.

``The castle is large, the outer walls standing on a pleasantascent from the river, but much overtopt by a high hill, on which the town stands, situated at the head of a rich and magnificent vale, formed by an amphitheatre of woody hills, in which flows the gentle Don.

According to his account, my unfortunate Ancestor, being afflicted with rheumatism, and in the act of being felt by a Polygon, by one sudden start accidentally transfixed the Great Man through the diagonal; and thereby, partly in consequence of his long imprisonment and degradation, and partly because of the moral shock which pervaded the whole of my Ancestor's relations, threw back our family a degree and a half in theirascent towards better things.

The crags above us were not merely perpendicular, but curved outwards at the top, so thatascent was out of the question.

I am no hero--I was fully aware of the danger to which I was exposing myself; and yet I protest that I caught myself laughing under my breath, with the most outrageous inconsistency, at the instant when I began theascent of the trellis-work.

To check thisascent, the only recourse is, (or rather was, until Mr.