List of synonyms from "ascend" to synonyms from "Asian"
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Definition of the day : « ascendant »
- adj ruling
- noun ancestor
- Still, anything was liable to happen when his unlucky star was in the ascendant.
- Extract from : « The Black Bag » by Louis Joseph Vance
- At any rate, for more than fifteen years of his reign the king was in the ascendant.
- Extract from : « The Siege of Boston » by Allen French
- Whether the bad might have gained the ascendant, or the good triumphed, I know not.
- Extract from : « Sir Jasper Carew » by Charles James Lever
- Now it was the Bed Man, now Napoleon, who stood in the ascendant.
- Extract from : « Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II (of II) » by Charles James Lever
- Then his instinct of fair play in the game took the ascendant.
- Extract from : « Blazed Trail Stories » by Stewart Edward White
- Poor Molly—her unlucky star was in the ascendant this afternoon surely!
- Extract from : « Grandmother Dear » by Mrs. Molesworth
- It was Jem Deady in the custody of his wife, who was now in the ascendant.
- Extract from : « My New Curate » by P.A. Sheehan
- For the present the star of the cardinal was in the ascendant.
- Extract from : « Historical Tales, Vol. 6 (of 15) » by Charles Morris
- "Fortitude in Distress" is the motto and lords of the ascendant is their practice.
- Extract from : « Canada: the Empire of the North » by Agnes C. Laut
- In '41, Captain Maconochie's mark system was in the ascendant.
- Extract from : « The History of Tasmania, Volume I (of 2) » by John West