Ascendancy

Examples

• As the golden swim of light overhead died out, the moon gained brightness, and seemed to begin to smile forth her ascendancy. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Here we cannot trace out the tangle of alliances and betrayals that ended in the ascendancy of this Octavian, the adopted heir of Julius C?sar. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• So it was in utter social decay and collapse that the great slave-holding world-ascendancy of the God-C?sars and the rich men of Rome came to an end. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The Jesuits, in a phase of ascendancy, persecuted and insulted the Buddhists with great acrimony. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And now Alexander, inspired it would seem by dreams of world ascendancy even crazier than his rival's, was posing again as the friend of liberty. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The seventeenth century in Europe was the century of Louis XIV; he and French ascendancy and Versailles are the central motif of the story. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They lost their sea ascendancy through a storm, and regained it by building a second fleet of two hundred and twenty ships within three months. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• While there she had met a young man named Harold Latimer, who had acquired an ascendancy over her and had eventually persuaded her to fly with him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• It was preoccupied with the revival of Roman ascendancy on earth, which it conceived of as its inheritance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And Hermione disliked him extremely for his good-humoured obliviousness, she was nullified, she could not regain ascendancy. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Under this ascendancy Egypt remained an independent power until 1517, when it fell to the Ottoman Turks. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Few people seem to realize how recent a thing is this European ascendancy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• All men are mixed in their motives; a hundred things move men to seek ascendancy over other men, but not all such motives are base or bad. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It had no dukes, princes, counts, nor any sort of title-bearers claiming to ascendancy or respect as a right. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Not his ascendancy alone, however, held me in thrall at present. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.

Typist: Pansy