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Definition
to hope to be successful — especially in a career
- But a village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance.Chapter 22 (43% in)
- Aspiring.Chapter 30 (64% in)
- Before that time, she knew, a hundred generations of Carols will aspire and go down in tragedy devoid of palls and solemn chanting, the humdrum inevitable tragedy of struggle against inertia.Chapter 39 (82% in)
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