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He was, however, one of those cultural figures who begin at a peak of recognition and spend a professional lifetime unable to reascend the heights.

From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2010

M. Rouher was constrained to reascend the tribune.

From Pius IX. And His Time by Dawson, Æneas MacDonell

Hard it is to have thus to reascend the stream down which one has for so long been gently floated!

From Recollections of My Youth by Renan, Ernest

So they may as well reascend the cliff.

From The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora by Reid, Mayne

Nightly he descended 'into chasms and sunless abysses, depths below depths, from which it seemed hopeless that he could ever reascend.'

From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir