aspirer
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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
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
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 James Elphinston
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
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 Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
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