May not the far-off country to which I aspire be a false reflection of my own desires?
Life, Don Fulano, is not as you paint it; it is necessary to have lived within the charmed circle of society if one aspire to give a correct picture of it.
In your ignorance youaspire to do that which not even the gods themselves may do.
She reproached herself too as with a weakness that she had ever thought of marrying Rinaldo; in fine, her pride grew so high as to persuade her that no man living was worthy to aspire to her hand.
I do not aspire to the honor of your hand, but I do ask Miss Rivers to be my wife--here before you all.
Through this road must they travel, who aspire to real excellence.
I aspire to be acquainted with wiser men than this our Concord soil has produced, whose names are hardly known here.
This is about as much as the college-bred generally do or aspire to do, and they take an English paper for the purpose.
How can, then, such a man aspire to wing his flight into the atmosphere of Thy most exalted presence?
Suppose this Joseph Willet now, were to aspire to the affections of your charming daughter, and were to engage them.
Aspire to foil the usual calculation, that, at a long distance, the runner can beat the throw.
This is said to tend both to safety and system in play; but a first-rate player, who has already attained to a right system, should aspire to more power and freedom, and rise into the attitude of fig.
To imitate finite excellence, is to aspire at excellence, even though but in part.
But now there are many of those who aspire to merit honor and glory simply by relating their feats.
With churches it was inevitable that they should first fatally aspire to preach in them and attract the crowd to them, then in some sort erect them into counter parishes.
It also implied an attitude of aloofness from all those movements which aspire to replace the wage system by cooperation, whether voluntary or subsidized by government, whether greenbackism, socialism, or anarchism.
Even less did the commercial class aspire to independence.
But, as a matter of fact, these assemblies considered themselves ill used because they were asked to take part in government and not once did they aspire to an independent position in the Russian body politic.
So little did the several classes aspire to domination that they missed many golden opportunities to seize and hold a share of the political power.
To do him justice, if he were not an ascetic, neither was he a whining hypocrite, as is the case with too many of those who aspire to be disciples and ministers of our blessed Lord.
Satanstoe, sir; we do not aspire to the whole foot.
Few, if any, of them aspire to follow the hounds, a ditch or a gate would present difficulties which would be truly insurmountable, and they never acquire the ease and grace in this exercise which are the mark of an expert horsewoman.
No man who does not feel at least some poetic impulses is likely to aspire seriously to be a poet, yet many whose imaging faculties are so dormant as to seem actually dead do aspire to be public speakers.
I, 'that dark-browed ruffian, to aspire to such an angel?
He is said to aspire to the presidential chair, and is already a full general of militia.
The chair of theology was the most coveted honor of the university, and was reached only by a long course of study and searching examinations, to which no one could aspirebut the most learned and gifted of the doctors.
This is what the architect must nowaspire to accomplish; he must produce a house in which one can both hear the sermon, and be stimulated by inspiring melodies,--for the Church must have both.
This fear of the Lord of the Devas rests on the belief in the transcendent power of penance, which enables great ascetics to aspire even to that dignity.
The style of Art that we see exemplified in these early authorities we may accept almost unreservedly as our own style; and we must aspire to sympathise heartily with their genuine heraldic feeling.
Is there anything in the nature of things why I should not aspire to be your husband?
He would play his cards well, and with her wealth at his disposal he might aspire to any distinction he coveted.
Those who aspire to such morals as are expressed by fairness--mere fairness--are much given to hesitation.
She made amazing strides and seemed to aspire to a thoroughness and perfection girls did not commonly aim at--especially at the frequently rather preoccupied hour of blossoming.
To him Polly was still a little girl climbing his knees, and an emperor might not aspire to her.
She surpassed in loveliness the rose-buds that lay on her bosom, and the impertinence that could dare aspireto her broke over the old man in a fresh wave.
I have just begun a novel which is to run through the Atlantic from January 1st and which I aspire to finish by the end of this year.
Meanwhile I aspire to linger on here in Italy and make the most of it--even in poor little overshadowed Florence and in a society limited to waiters and washerwomen.
