"Ascendible" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of success. Yet we knew the contrary, as an English youth, who was servant to the master of the Jonas, bolder than any of the Persians, had gone up the breach to the very top of the castle wall, and told us it was as easily ascendible as a pair of stairs, and broad enough for many men to go abreast. In representing this to the general, and asking what were his future plans of proceeding, he told us he would be ready with another mine in three ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume IX. • Robert Kerr |
