aspirer
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The first ascents to sovereignty are hard; But, entered once, there never wants or means, Or ministers, to help the aspirer on.
From Sejanus: His Fall by Ben Jonson
Eve the aspirer, give her what she wants, Or wherefore was he born?
From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Jean Ingelow
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 Robert Dodsley
Well, a new aspirer, I suppose, has succeeded, and he is the bone of contention.
From Jane Talbot by Charles Brockden Brown
In reading the life of Chatterton, he had not much noted the scepticism, assumed or real, of the ill-fated aspirer to earthly immortality.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various
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