aspirer

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Hant, hanch, and dheir fellows, admit not dhe braudener; hwich iz indispensabel to' wrauth, wauter, and vauz; nor need dhe protracting aspirer, more dhan doo chant and branch.

From A Minniature ov Inglish Orthoggraphy by Elphinston, James

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

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

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

Eve the aspirer, give her what she wants, Or wherefore was he born?

From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Ingelow, Jean