Both Uses of
aspire
in
Hard Times
- A blur of soot and smoke, now confusedly tending this way, now that way, now aspiring to the vault of Heaven, now murkily creeping along the earth, as the wind rose and fell, or changed its quarter: a dense formless jumble, with sheets of cross light in it, that showed nothing but masses of darkness:— Coketown in the distance was suggestive of itself, though not a brick of it could be seen.†
Chpt 2.1
- 'In a word, it is to correct your brother in this, Mrs. Bounderby, that I must aspire.†
Chpt 2.7 *
Definition:
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(aspire) to hope to be successful -- especially in a career