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one hoping to achieve recognition or advancement- a lofty aspirant
- Men insist that they don't mind women succeeding so long as they retain their "femininity". Yet the qualities that men consider "feminine" timidity, submissiveness, obedience, silliness, and self-debasement—are the very qualities best guaranteed to assure the defeat of even the most gifted aspirant.Elizabeth Gould Davis
- "As you know, this is the first time we've broadcast an Aspirant session."Dave Eggers -- The Circle
- They untune and dissipate the brave aspirant.'Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Society and Solitude
- At eighteen hundred feet in the air, the large aircraft began to cruise and prepare to offload its twenty aspirants.Wes Moore -- The Other Wes Moore
- His unbroken national interscholastic mile record stands as a challenge to the aspirants of the (Ginger Cup).Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
- "Then I shall come home and teach drawing for my living," replied the aspirant for fame, with philosophic composure.Louisa May Alcott -- Little Women
- — The reply to this, of course, is that given by Ramakrishna: God has made different religions to suit different aspirants. times, and countries.Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
- Under big awnings the aspirants to food wait their turn, aligned along the curbs of streets gaping and sizzling in the fires of noon.Albert Camus -- The Plague
- Of these four Aspirants, one will be named the Foretold.Sabaa Tahir -- An Ember in the Ashes
- Kat, I hear some aspirants for the frying-pan over there.Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front
- No demon lord or aspirant shall invade these, lands or harm its inhabitants under pain of death.Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
- Every career has its aspirants, who form a train for those who have attained eminence in it.Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
- But the thing has to be done scientifically, or the last state of the aspirant may be worse than the first.George Bernard Shaw -- Pygmalion
- 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.Zane Grey -- The Thundering Herd
- To the Press, for the fair field its honest suffrage has opened to an obscure aspirant.Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
- 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.Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 2
- 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.Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
- First, all the sugar must be chewed out of Mexican gum, then the bartender gives a few slips of paper to the aspirant, who writes either a proverb or a sentimental remark on the strip.Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- He had always opposed my militant flippancy about the plebe system, and I knew it would offend him deeply to see it directed at newly ordained aspirants to the invigorating rituals of that system.Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
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