Aspired
[əs'paiəd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Aspire
Edited by Caleb
Examples
- From my birth I have aspired like the eagle --but, unlike the eagle, my wings have failed, and my vision has been blinded. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- This was very dry; but, I had not aspired to Lord Byron's love and I did not despair of making his acquaintance. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The council aspired to reunite Christendom completely. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Being assisted by a gentleman who not long ago aspired to the favour of your hand, I am sanguine as to that. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
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