A lofty aspirant. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
However, the condonation did not apply to any other non-lateral appointments to the SAPS, such as aspirant recruits. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
But for the last time, let us listen to the concluding symptomatic stanza of an "aspirant;". From Wordnik.com. [Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance] Reference
The character of Sophia's flat, instead of repelling the wrong kind of aspirant, infallibly drew just that kind. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference
Aspirante PMT printed in t-shirts means 'aspirant' for the Municipal Traffic Police (PMT abbreviation in Spanish). From Wordnik.com. [AntiguaDailyPhoto.Com] Reference
European market and proximity to EU aspirant economies. From Wordnik.com. [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Oh, goat-hoofed devil in man, and buffeted aspirant soul!. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
Miss Heale, another London aspirant, is credited with "Epithalamion,". From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in Music] Reference
Many times the aspirant will remark, "I swear I didn't make it move!". From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis] Reference
A young aspirant of marine, who had refused us a glass of water in the. From Wordnik.com. [Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770.] Reference
But the most determined aspirant for fame was none other than Mignon La. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference
The monthlies offer another attractive field for the literary aspirant. From Wordnik.com. [How to Speak and Write Correctly] Reference
With such traits no garden-variety political aspirant could have survived. From Wordnik.com. [Sonia, The Ideal Symbol] Reference
By this time there appeared a third aspirant to local fame in the person of. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
"Ah! indeed! indeed!" cried the smart little aspirant, gleefully rubbing his hands. From Wordnik.com. [Edmond Dantès] Reference
Senate and House Republicans will be seen more than any party chair or 2012 aspirant. From Wordnik.com. [A Way Out of the Wilderness] Reference
Mignon La Salle stood watching the wailing aspirant for the "big band" with frowning eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference
My memories of Blackstone are such as need prejudice no ambitious aspirant for legal honours. From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
Sir Walter is set up as a sort of first standard for the aspirant in the art of fiction to excel. From Wordnik.com. [My Contemporaries In Fiction] Reference
(D-Ill.), a Senate aspirant, was "the culmination of years of dirty schemes," the prosecutor said. From Wordnik.com. [Prosecutors take aim at Blagojevich in closing arguments] Reference
There is a benefit night at the Opera, and the young wife of the aspirant to court honours has a box. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
But suppose literary culture be the central force of this society -- has the aspirant any fitness for, or sympathy with it?. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
The distressed aspirant for literary fame, who only requests that you shall read and correct his or her manuscript, procure. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
It allows him to be both Senate majority leader and presidential aspirant, moving quickly from the Capitol to campaign stops. From Wordnik.com. [Dole's Frequent-Flier Miles] Reference
Supper was the next matter under consideration, and was deftly prepared by 'Sid,' the aspirant, who proved himself an excellent cook. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
But it's also a dangerous thing to say: If there's one thing any aspirant for any office is reluctant to do, it's insult the electorate. From Wordnik.com. [In Search of Rational Voters] Reference
This foiled aspirant class of states is a polyglot group spanning the Caribbean, Latin America, Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Africa. From Wordnik.com. [Pain in the Middle] Reference
A cheer from such a quarter was worth the winning, and our aspirant fairly won it, by the five stanzas of which the following is the last. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
By choosing David Miliband, Labour would be saying it wanted to win back England's aspirant classes – that it was still serious about power. From Wordnik.com. [Politics live blog - Tuesday 14 September] Reference
Let us suppose that wealth is the central idea of the best society, and then let the aspirant to this society ask himself whether he has wealth. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
These forms are favorites with the inexperienced because they seem to dodge some of the difficulties that beset the way of the literary aspirant. From Wordnik.com. [Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story] Reference
The conversation of those women who are not the most lavishly supplied with personal beauty, will be of the most advantage to the young aspirant. From Wordnik.com. [The Laws of Etiquette] Reference
The objections urged against him were read over to the aspirant, without the names of the urgers appearing, and he was invited to defend himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
A month or so before the election, congressional aspirant Sherrod Brown of Ohio was dismissed as a fringe candidate for his fiercely antitrade views. From Wordnik.com. [Booting Trade] Reference
It would not work very satisfactorily to have a committee decreeing the issues, and the remuneration to be paid to each aspirant -- ten thousand copies of. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
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