ascendents

So, even before I tried getting to work, but after running — cautious in my choice of route — and exercising and cleaning up, like all the good ascendents and the dutiful sarimen, I trudged down to the voting station at the local secondary school, another institution that had been forecast to go out of existence but had not, once the drawbacks of the alternatives had become fully obvious.

Flash ModesittJr_LE 2004

Her hair, green eyes, and perfect figure had clearly been gene back-altered, like most of the prominent physical characteristics of offspring of first generation ascendents.

Flash ModesittJr_LE 2004

Having worked for Vorhees and Reyes definitely made her a tool, although I wouldn't have said of the ascendents.

Flash ModesittJr_LE 2004

I'd never been that enthused about pseudo-combat, and that was the way most ascendents regarded competitive games.

Flash ModesittJr_LE 2004

Before she'd entered politics, Kagnar had been a public relations specialist for Vorhees and Reyes, and Erle was attacking her as a tool of the ascendents.

Flash ModesittJr_LE 2004

Erle certainly captured the sense of all too many ascendents, and I couldn't deny that I'd felt that way at times.

Flash ModesittJr_LE 2004

Astrologers, quoth my father, know better than us both: — the trine and sextil aspects have jumped awry, — or the opposite of their ascendents have not hit it, as they should, — or the lords of the genitures (as they call them) have been at bo-peep, — or something has been wrong above, or below with us.

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

Astrologers, quoth my father, know better than us both: — the trine and sextil aspects have jumped awry, — or the opposite of their ascendents have not hit it, as they should, — or the lords of the genitures (as they call them) have been at bo-peep, — or something has been wrong above, or below with us.

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

Direct successions, or those of descendents to ascendents, pay no tax.

II. Book V. Of the Sources of the General or Public Revenue of the Society 1909

The Luctuosa Hereditas, the mournful succession of ascendents to descendents, to the twentieth penny only.

II. Book V. Of the Sources of the General or Public Revenue of the Society 1909