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Before the British took Malabar, before the Dutch Ascendency, before Vasco da Gama arrived, before the Zamorin’s conquest of Calicut.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

After this follows a group of letters which passed between him and the late Edgar Gardiner Murphy, author of "The Present South," "The Basis of Ascendency," and other important books.

From Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization by Scott, Emmett J. (Emmett Jay)

America has no distinction in sauces, but it has more than 200 religions, and having no State Church there is no poison of Social Ascendency in piety, but equality in worship and prophesying.

From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Holyoake, George Jacob

Ascendency was native to the man; while yet in his teens we find Etonian and Cambridge friends writing to him deferentially as to a critic and superior. 

From Biographical Study of A.W. Kinglake by Tuckwell, William

But the Hermit assum’d such an Ascendency over him, exclusive of the Oath he had taken, that he couldn’t tell how to leave him.

From Zadig Or, The Book of Fate by Voltaire