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"Ascendent" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... few days after he passed out of my knowledge that news came of the death of Gen. Lowrie. It was the old story, "the great man down," for he died in poverty and neglect, but with his better self in the ascendent. His body lies in an unmarked grave, in that land where once his ...
— Half a Century • Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm
... as slumbers, or as beds of ease After our long and peevish sicknesses. O pomp of glory! Welcome now, and come To repossess once more your long'd-for home. A thousand altars smoke: a thousand thighs Of beeves here ready stand for sacrifice. Enter and prosper; while our eyes do wait For an ascendent throughly auspicate: Under which sign we may the former stone Lay of our safety's new foundation: That done, O Caesar! live and be to us Our fate, our fortune, and our genius; To whose free knees we may our temples tie As to a still protecting deity: That should you stir, we and our ...
— The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 • Robert Herrick |
Words linked to "Ascendent" : father, foremother, forebear, forbear, ancestress, primogenitor, ascendancy, sire, ascendence, descendant, relative, forefather, ascendance, dominant, ascendency, progenitor, ascending, control, ascend, dominance, relation |
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