aspirer

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Well, a new aspirer, I suppose, has succeeded, and he is the bone of contention.

From Jane Talbot by Brown, Charles Brockden

Hant, hanch, and dheir fellows, admit not dhe braudener; hwich iz indispensabel to' wrauth, wauter, and vauz; nor need dhe protracting aspirer, more dhan doo chant and branch.

From A Minniature ov Inglish Orthoggraphy by Elphinston, James

Alas, Zanoni! the aspirer, the dark, bright one!—didst thou think that the bond between the survivor of ages and the daughter of a day could endure?

From Zanoni by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

In reading the life of Chatterton, he had not much noted the skepticism, assumed or real of the ill-fated aspirer to earthly immortality.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various

O, then, Were it not better my disgrace were known, Than such a base aspirer fill the throne?

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Dodsley, Robert