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  • What could upset a Mask, an Aspirant, enough to bring him to tears?†   (source)
  • What is an Aspirant doing at a Moon Festival?†   (source)
  • Reason does not matter, Aspirant Veturius.†   (source)
  • "Greetings, oh holy Aspirant," Tristas calls out when he secs me.†   (source)
  • I ask that you pass the message along to Aspirant Aquilla.†   (source)
  • The Aspirant who wins two Trials first will he named victor.†   (source)
  • You weren't meant to kill Aspirant Aquilla.†   (source)
  • "Forgive him, oh hallowed Aspirant," Tristas intones, blue eyes sparkling.†   (source)
  • —Aspirant —Aquilla —" I choke out.†   (source)
  • Keris gains much if she backs the right Aspirant.†   (source)
  • Neither will allow me to do what I must to heal Aspirant Aquilla.†   (source)
  • "You spent the night with Aspirant Veturius," she says.†   (source)
  • "I will sce Aspirant Veturius," a quarrelsome voice says from the hallway outside the infirmary.†   (source)
  • How she managed to be named Aspirant in the first place I don't understand.†   (source)
  • Bear witness, men and women of the Empire, students of Blackcliff, Aspirants.†   (source)
  • "We've heard that two of the Aspirants returned today," Keenan says.†   (source)
  • He tells me of the Trials and the four Aspirants.†   (source)
  • If the Aspirants don't know what will happen in the Trials, how can I possibly find out?†   (source)
  • Everyone knew what this Trial would be—everyone but the Aspirants.†   (source)
  • I have ordered the Centurions to intensify your training to reflect your status as Aspirants.†   (source)
  • He's started to plan his attack on Blackcliff— on us, the Aspirants.†   (source)
  • Though I do wonder if you've chosen the right Aspirants, Keris.†   (source)
  • Belinda glowed, sat down, feigned nonchalance by smiling at Gareth, the next aspirant, who stood up, nervous and blinking.†   (source)
  • Dozens of Circlers had been hired this way: they came to campus as aspirants, presented an idea and that idea was bought on the spot and the aspirant was thereafter employed.†   (source)
  • Dozens of Circlers had been hired this way: they came to campus as aspirants, presented an idea and that idea was bought on the spot and the aspirant was thereafter employed.†   (source)
  • There were about fifty Circlers, the Wise Men, the Gang of 40 and a few assistants in the room, all of them facing a row of aspirants, a few of them still in their teens, each of them sitting, waiting for his or her turn.†   (source)
  • The battle will end when you, Aspirant Veturius, defeat —or are defeated by—the leader of the enemy.†   (source)
  • Out of all three Aspirants, only Aspirant Farrar attempted to carry out my order w ithout question, with unflinching loyalty to the Empire.†   (source)
  • "Aspirant Veturius," Izzi whispers.†   (source)
  • A second later, cool night air pours into my room, and I drag my eyes open to see Aspirant Aquilla silhouetted in the door.†   (source)
  • "Aspirant Veturius," Grandfather booms.†   (source)
  • Her eye is wide, and I know then that I didn't dream the Aspirant's presence—or the fact that she healed me.†   (source)
  • The battle will end when you, Aspirant Veturius, defeat—or are defeated by —the leader of the enemy.†   (source)
  • A normal Blackcliff student would beat me for touching him without permission—and this is no student, but an Aspirant and the Commandant's spawn.†   (source)
  • And you almost look like an Aspirant.†   (source)
  • To be chosen as an Aspirant for the Trials is to be granted the greatest honor the Empire has to offer.†   (source)
  • But if we cannot prove that Marcus and Zacharias cheated, then we must leave Aspirant Aquilla to her fate.†   (source)
  • And you, Aspirant Aquilla, are named his Blood Shrike, his second-in-command, and the sword that executes his will.†   (source)
  • We had no choice, Aspirant Veturius.†   (source)
  • Aspirant Veturius, delivering me from my murderer so I can die on a slave's pallet instead of a stone floor.†   (source)
  • Hours after I'm named an Aspirant, I dutifully stand beside Grandfather in his cavernous foyer to greet guests arriving for my graduation party.†   (source)
  • The—the Commandant has requested you and Aspirant Aquilla to report to her office at—at sixth bell.†   (source)
  • The bruises from my run-in with Aspirant Marcus a week ago are fading, and the ten lashes I received afterward have scabbed over.†   (source)
  • I will keep my vows, Aspirant Aquilla.†   (source)
  • "Aspirant Aquilla," Cain says.†   (source)
  • "Aspirant Veturius," Cain says.†   (source)
  • Jinn are dead, little Aspirant.†   (source)
  • Every time I put it on, I think of Aspirant Veturius, of that unabashed fire that burned in him when he first turned to me, of his smell when he stepped close, distractingly clean and masculine.†   (source)
  • "Aspirant Veturius," Cain says.†   (source)
  • I've told you before, Aspirant.†   (source)
  • "Aspirant Veturius," he says, "as Aquilla has forfeited, and you, of all Aspirants, have the most men left alive, we, the Augurs, name you victor in the Trial of Strength.†   (source)
  • "Congratulations, Aspirant Veturius," a mustached man who might be a cousin says as he shakes my hand in both of his, using the title the Augurs bestowed on me during graduation.†   (source)
  • Aspirant Veturius broke them.†   (source)
  • N-no-no one, Aspirant, sir.†   (source)
  • Greetings, Aspirant Veturius.†   (source)
  • A-aspirant Veturius?†   (source)
  • Aspirant Veturius.†   (source)
  • Aspirant .†   (source)
  • You're an Aspirant.†   (source)
  • Aspirant Veturius.†   (source)
  • Asp-aspirant Veturius.†   (source)
  • Come, Aspirant.†   (source)
  • Aspirant Aquilla—†   (source)
  • Aspirant.†   (source)
  • Aspirant Aquilla.†   (source)
  • Aspirant.†   (source)
  • Go on, Aspirant.†   (source)
  • Aspirant Aquilla.†   (source)
  • An Aspirant.†   (source)
  • If I'd paid closer attention to the auxes' gossip, I might have learned which Aspirants had survived the Trial.†   (source)
  • Out of all three Aspirants, only Aspirant Farrar attempted to carry out my order w ithout question, with unflinching loyalty to the Empire.†   (source)
  • That's when the Aspirants disappeared.†   (source)
  • In exchange for this great gift, the Augurs require an oath: that as Aspirants, you will see the Trials through until the Emperor is named.†   (source)
  • I'd hoped the Augurs had, at some point in time, expanded on their original prophecy—perhaps even described what the Aspirants should expect.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, I'm the only one of the four Aspirants still standing, and Cain is before me, awaiting my decision.†   (source)
  • "Aspirant Veturius," he says, "as Aquilla has forfeited, and you, of all Aspirants, have the most men left alive, we, the Augurs, name you victor in the Trial of Strength.†   (source)
  • On top of that, I've heard students whispering that the Emperor is days away from Serra and planning vengeance against the Aspirants and anyone associated with them.†   (source)
  • On the naming of the Aspirants.†   (source)
  • I turn from the Aspirants.†   (source)
  • Aspirants.†   (source)
  • You are Aspirants.†   (source)
  • Kat, I hear some aspirants for the frying-pan over there.†   (source)
  • Under big awnings the aspirants to food wait their turn, aligned along the curbs of streets gaping and sizzling in the fires of noon.†   (source)
  • The reply to this, of course, is that given by Ramakrishna: "God has made different religions to suit different aspirants, times, and countries.†   (source)
  • The preliminary meditations of the aspirant detach his mind and sentiments from the accidents of life and drive him to the core.†   (source)
  • They untune and dissipate the brave aspirant.'†   (source)
  • Every career has its aspirants, who form a train for those who have attained eminence in it.†   (source)
  • But the thing has to be done scientifically, or the last state of the aspirant may be worse than the first.†   (source)
  • He said it was quite time she was walking out; he told Philip that she was very proud, and would have nothing to do with aspirants to that honour who lined up at the door, two by two, outside the Sunday school and craved the honour of escorting her home.†   (source)
  • They were aware of it, for they would raise their shaggy heads from the grass and gaze a moment at the king and his jealous aspirant.†   (source)
  • And so low had been her social state until very recently that she had not been able to come in contact with anything better than butcher and baker boys—the rather commonplace urchins and small job aspirants of her vicinity.†   (source)
  • She had always consistently ignored the world of outer aspirants, or had recognized its individual members only when prompted by motives of self-interest; and the very capriciousness of her condescensions had, as Lily was aware, given them special value in the eyes of the persons she distinguished.†   (source)
  • A political aspirant in the United States begins by discriminating his own interest, and by calculating upon those interests which may be collected around and amalgamated with it; he then contrives to discover some doctrine or some principle which may suit the purposes of this new association, and which he adopts in order to bring forward his party and to secure his popularity; just as the imprimatur of a King was in former days incorporated with the volume which it authorized, but to which it nowise belonged.†   (source)
  • "Then I shall come home and teach drawing for my living," replied the aspirant for fame, with philosophic composure.†   (source)
  • As I expect to be particularly calm and abstracted in my last moments, if you add a few details, concerning the fortitude and scholastic dignity with which I met my death, it may serve to encourage future aspirants for similar honours, and assuredly give offence to no one.†   (source)
  • Agnes says 'No,' but I say 'Yes,' and tell her that she little thinks what stores of knowledge have been mastered by the wonderful Being, at whose place she thinks I, even I, weak aspirant, may arrive in time.†   (source)
  • Behind them followed other Companions of the Temple, with a long train of esquires and pages clad in black, aspirants to the honour of being one day Knights of the Order.†   (source)
  • In a collection of so serious savages, there is never to be found any impatient aspirant after premature distinction, standing ready to move his auditors to some hasty, and, perhaps, injudicious discussion, in order that his own reputation may be the gainer.†   (source)
  • He resolved that his conduct should be worthy of an aspirant who was already a model of discretion; but he saw nothing in any pledge he had given Madame Merle that made it improper he should keep himself in spirits by an occasional visit to Miss Osmond's home.†   (source)
  • There might have been half a dozen aspirants for the honors of this trial; one or two, who had barely succeeded in touching the spot of paint in the previous strife, preferring to rest their reputations there, feeling certain that they could not succeed in the greater effort that was now exacted of them.†   (source)
  • From this time the work advanced with great rapidity, and in the course of the season the Labor was completed; the edifice Manding, in all its heatity and proportions, the boast of the village, the study of young aspirants for architectural fame, and the admiration of every settler on the Patent.†   (source)
  • But nothing is gained by increasing the army amongst a democratic people, because the number of aspirants always rises in exactly the same ratio as the army itself.†   (source)
  • Besides, he could not bind all that he had in his nature — the rover, the aspirant, the poet, the priest — in the limits of a single passion.†   (source)
  • All men of talent, whether they be men of feeling or not; whether they be zealots, or aspirants, or despots — provided only they be sincere — have their sublime moments, when they subdue and rule.†   (source)
  • At this moment a squire, clothed in a threadbare vestment, (for the aspirants after this holy Order wore during their noviciate the cast-off garments of the knights,) entered the garden, and, bowing profoundly before the Grand Master, stood silent, awaiting his permission ere he presumed to tell his errand.†   (source)
  • Amongst democratic nations, as well as elsewhere, the number of official appointments has in the end some limits; but amongst those nations, the number of aspirants is unlimited; it perpetually increases, with a gradual and irresistible rise in proportion as social conditions become more equal, and is only checked by the limits of the population.†   (source)
  • A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT.†   (source)
  • Beside the vaudeville aspirants, another group, which was also taking advantage of the uproar to talk low, was discussing a duel.†   (source)
  • At his age when dabbling in politics roughly some score of years previously when he had been a quasi aspirant to parliamentary honours in the Buckshot Foster days he too recollected in retrospect (which was a source of keen satisfaction in itself) he had a sneaking regard for those same ultra ideas.†   (source)
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