All 3 Uses of
aspiration
in
Heart of Darkness
- —less material aspirations.†
Chpt 3 *
- The stretcher shook as the bearers staggered forward again, and almost at the same time I noticed that the crowd of savages was vanishing without any perceptible movement of retreat, as if the forest that had ejected these beings so suddenly had drawn them in again as the breath is drawn in a long aspiration.†
Chpt 3
- This alone, I was convinced, had driven him out to the edge of the forest, to the bush, towards the gleam of fires, the throb of drums, the drone of weird incantations; this alone had beguiled his unlawful soul beyond the bounds of permitted aspirations.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(aspiration) a cherished desire