aspirer

Example Sentences

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But the aspiration was above the competency of the aspirer.

From Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities by Botta, Anne C. Lynch

The first ascents to sovereignty are hard; But, entered once, there never wants or means, Or ministers, to help the aspirer on.

From Sejanus: His Fall by Jonson, Ben

Alas, Zanoni! the aspirer, the dark, bright one!—didst thou think that the bond between the survivor of ages and the daughter of a day could endure?

From Zanoni by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

O, then, Were it not better my disgrace were known, Than such a base aspirer fill the throne?

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Dodsley, Robert

In reading the life of Chatterton, he had not much noted the scepticism, assumed or real, of the ill-fated aspirer to earthly immortality.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various