Both Uses of
aspiration
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- Through the rusted bars, tastes, rather than glimpses, were caught of the jumbled neighbourhood; and nothing within range, nearer or lower than the summits of the two great towers of Notre-Dame, had any promise on it of healthy life or wholesome aspirations.†
Chpt 1.5 *
- One of the frenzied aspirations of the populace was, for imitations of the questionable public virtues of antiquity, and for sacrifices and self-immolations on the people's altar.†
Chpt 3.10
Definition:
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(aspiration) a cherished desire