aspirer

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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

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

Well, a new aspirer, I suppose, has succeeded, and he is the bone of contention.

From Jane Talbot by Brown, Charles Brockden

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 Elphinston, James