Sentence examples for ascended by a from inspiring English sources

The mountain is ascended by a rack-and-pinion railway that runs from Llanberis to the summit of Yr Wyddfa.

Here, too, is the Paneium,64 a "height," as it were, which was made by the hand of man; it has the shape of a fir-cone, resembles a rocky hill, and is ascended by a spiral road; and from the summit one can see the whole of the city lying below it on all sides.

The whole structure sat on a platform of stone blocks, 9 feet square and 4 feet high, which was ascended by a flight of steps.

Those who ascended to altitude by climbing were assessed as having a lower baseline risk for developing acute mountain sickness resulting in higher numbers needed to treat (5.3 to 6.5 in doses ranging from 250 mg to 750 mg) compared with those who ascended by a combination of transport and climbing (3.0 to 3.5 in doses ranging from 250 mg to 750 mg).

The man, Felix Baumgartner, an Austrian daredevil, made the highest and fastest jump in history after ascending by a helium _________ to an altitude of 128,100 feet.

The man, Felix Baumgartner, an Austrian daredevil, made the highest and fastest jump in history after ascending by a helium balloon to an altitude of 128,100 feet.

Either ascending by a major third or by descending by a minor sixth, one arrives at the same pitch class, the same note representing pitches in different octaves.

This arête, although not as imposing as Striding Edge across Nethermost Cove, ascends by a series of rocky steps for three quarters of a mile, making straight for the summit.

In the same year appeared the Sonate de Concert, Op. 47, for cello and piano, "among the most difficult and ambitious in the romantic repertoire ... anticipating Mahler in its juxtaposition of the sublime and the trivial", and with its four movements showing again an anticipation of progressive tonality, each ascending by a major third.

Predictably, commercial climbers were more likely to ascend by a standard route (6392 (80.4%) of 7955 v 15 290 (49.2%) of 31 083) and were less likely to make an off season attempt (that is, during the summer or winter; 136 (1.7%) v 1784 (5.7%)).

Those of us who had worked on the early subscription services realized that they were incredibly clunky, and that Apple had ascended by paring a great device with a service and marketing it brilliantly.