ambitious

• Sir Walter was restless and ambitious, and had an eye mainly to his own advantage. —  A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges
• He was ambitious, and his ambition was allied with selfishness. —  A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges
• They were extremely ambitious, and fond of place and power. —  A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges
• But he was too ambitious, and worked too hard for his constitution. —  Down The River Buck Bradford and His Tyrants
• I am ambitious--as much in the interests of His reputation as in those of my own curiosity--to get at the logic of the affair, to get at the why and wherefore of it, and lay my finger on the spot where differentiation sets in Julius March stood upright. —  The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance

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