All 5 Uses of
aspire
in
Jane Eyre
- …filled with rayless cells, as it appeared to me — to that sky expanded before me, — a blue sea absolved from taint of cloud; the moon ascending it in solemn march; her orb seeming to look up as she left the hill-tops, from behind which she had come, far and farther below her, and aspired to the zenith, midnight dark in its fathomless depth and measureless distance; and for those trembling stars that followed her course; they made my heart tremble, my veins glow when I viewed them.†
Chpt 12
- Yes, and deems, and is bound to deem, himself honoured by the lot, and aspires but after the day when the cross of separation from fleshly ties shall be laid on his shoulders, and when the Head of that church-militant of whose humblest members he is one, shall give the word, 'Rise, follow Me!'†
Chpt 30
- "While something in me," he went on, "is acutely sensible to her charms, something else is as deeply impressed with her defects: they are such that she could sympathise in nothing I aspired to — cooperate in nothing I undertook.†
Chpt 32
- Literally, he lived only to aspire — after what was good and great, certainly; but still he would never rest, nor approve of others resting round him.†
Chpt 34 *
- He wanted to train me to an elevation I could never reach; it racked me hourly to aspire to the standard he uplifted.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(aspire) to hope to be successful -- especially in a career