aspire

• No longer need men of ardent minds weary themselves in the pursuit of what they fancy may be chief goods; no longer have they to wander about and encounter peril in quest of that unknown blessedness to which their hearts naturally aspire, as they did in heathen times. —  Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII (of 8)
• The whole thing seemed a nightmare to any one who cared about these people In Labrador no cereals are grown and the summer frosts make potato and turnip crops precarious, so that the tops of the latter are practically all the green food to which we can aspire--except for the few families who remain at the heads of the long bays all summer, far removed from the polar current.
• Let the ruby tide aspire, and all ruby aspirations with it! —  The Confidence-Man
• Let us rather regard the dignity and excellency of knowledge and learning in that whereunto man's nature doth most aspire, which is immortality or continuance. —  Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
• It was this high adoration that refined and ennobled my nature; that, in the mire of thraldom, taught me to aspire--taught me that, though a slave, I was yet a man. —  The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales

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