| 1. | Tommy felt his ascendancy less sure than a moment before. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 2. | Not his ascendancy alone, however, held me in thrall at present. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 3. | 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. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 4. | "Here, then," said Dupin to me, "you have precisely what you demand to make the ascendancy complete--the robber's knowledge of the loser's knowledge of the robber.. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 5. | His hatred, like a powerless though furious wave, was broken against the strong ascendancy which Mercedes exercised over him. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 6. | "Go I must be alone." Morrel, subdued by the extraordinary ascendancy Monte Cristo exercised over everything around him, did not endeavor to resist it. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 7. | The astrologers ascribed great power to Saturn, and predicted "much debate" under his ascendancy hence it was "against his kind" to compose the heavenly strife. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |