aspirer
Example Sentences
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Eve the aspirer, give her what she wants, Or wherefore was he born?
From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Jean Ingelow
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 Robert Dodsley
In reading the life of Chatterton, he had not much noted the skepticism, assumed or real of the ill-fated aspirer to earthly immortality.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various
But the aspiration was above the competency of the aspirer.
From Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities by Anne C. Lynch Botta
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 Ben Jonson
