How To Use ascensional In A Sentence
- That search, which Corto knows is fruitless, reconciles the sublimation of the motivating object with the euphemistic cynicism of a horizontal and not ascensional awareness of the journey.
- The doctor, according to very accurate calculations, found that, including the articles indispensable to his journey and his apparatus, he should have to carry a weight of 4,000 pounds; therefore he had to find out what would be the ascensional force of Five Weeks in a Balloon
- The ascensional force of the new balloon was then about three thousand pounds, and, in adding together the weight of the apparatus, of the passengers, of the stock of water, of the car and its accessories, and putting aboard fifty gallons of water, and one hundred pounds of fresh meat, the doctor got a total weight of twenty-eight hundred and thirty pounds. Five Weeks in a Balloon
- “Huzza!” roared Joe, as the balloon — thanks to its ascensional force — shot up higher into the sky, with increased rapidity. Five Weeks in a Balloon
- At this moment the ascensional force of the balloon increased prodigiously, and Ferguson, Kennedy, and Joe, waved a last good-by to their friends. Five Weeks in a Balloon
- But the management of two balloons would, necessarily, be very difficult, in view of the problem how to keep them both at an equal ascensional force. Five Weeks in a Balloon
- Historians of philosophy and religion call this form of experience ascensional mysticism, yet all that is called ascensional mysticism does not have the indelibly transformative character of the Gnostic ascension.
- In a very little while, the gas expanded under the action of the heat, and the balloon took a very decided ascensional movement. Five Weeks in a Balloon
- Joe, slipping nimbly down the tree, carefully attached the anchor, and the doctor left his cylinder at work to a certain degree in order to retain sufficient ascensional force in the balloon to keep it in the air. Five Weeks in a Balloon
- The ascensional movement did not cease until the Go-Ahead had reached a height of fourteen thousand feet.
