This programme may seem, as I have said, to be unambitious and prosaic, and to have very little that is stirring about it.
Can it be supposed that a plain, unambitious policy of merely exchanging productions with other nations will raise her, or keep her, above her natural level?
The commoner who, after this way of putting the matter, assented to the Bill, must either have been an unambitious bachelor, or have been blessed in a singularly unambitious wife.
Discouraging as the outlook was, some bitter experience might have been escaped if the Alcotts had remained in Concord, pursuing theirunambitious career.
I think that he was more ambitious than I perhaps knew, and had that vague belief in his own powers which is characteristic of able and unambitious men.
If they were in the majority in any nation, one would have a simple, patient, unambitious race, who would tend to become the subjects of other more vigorous nations: our Indian empire is a case in point.
But education tends to make boys and girls fond of excitement, fond of town sociabilities and amusements, till only the dull and unambitious are content to remain in the country.
My humble Muse, in unambitious strains, Paints the green forests and the flowery plains, Where Peace descending bids her olives spring, And scatters blessings from her dove-like wing.
The theatre was especially a respectable clerical resource, and we may still occasionally see heads of colleges in the stalls, or perhaps a dean, or some rector, unambitious of further promotion.
In his unambitious conception of his function as a poet, and in the very limited quantity of his [88] poetical performance, as I have said, he was a contrast to his friend Wordsworth.
And yet this very modesty, this unambitious [109] way of conceiving his work, has impressed upon it a certain exceptional enduringness.
I am growing too indolent and unambitious for any thing that requires labor or display.
The spirit of speculation and improvement had seized even upon that once quiet and unambitious little dorp.
Considered in its main outline, how very plain and unambitious is the history!
White men of the employing class will do almost anything to keep the Negro on the land and his wife in the kitchen--so long as they are obedient and unambitious workers.
But his useful, unambitious life was drawing to a close.
Such, I say, are my own unambitious mental pastimes, but I am aware that less superficial spirits could not be satisfied with them, and I can not pretend that my wedding-journeyers were so.
With the homestead of the first settler my father seemed to have inherited all his unambitious and plodding character.
It descended to their children, most of whom were equally plodding and unambitious with themselves.
Look how easy Hume is in his ordinary narrative--how unambitious Livy, in the greater part of his history.
He is hardy and adventurous, yet attached to home; bold, and yet simple; independent, and yet unambitiousof the wealth or the distinctions of mankind.
It was attended, indeed, by no immediate recompense; but he felt a satisfaction in having done his duty, incomparably more grateful to an unambitious mind.
Defeated in his benevolent intentions by the unambitious spirit of the Shunammite, Elisha consulted his confidential servant Gehazi, through whom the former communication had been made, respecting what could be done for her benefit.
