Verb (used without object), : to aspire after literary immortality; to aspire to be a doctor.    From Dictionary.com. 

As wife and Governor-aspirer set the ladder up again, a small car pulls up.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

Carry the ladder back to the hotel, and the Governor-aspirer helps me set it up.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

Wife and Governor-aspirer prop the ladder against the tree to get to higher branches, and I climb up.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

Rockstar Games could have had a field day with Niko as immigrant, Niko as veteran from a war that was screwed up from the start, with Niko as aspirer to an American Dream that might never have existed in the first place.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Grand,' but No 'Godfather'] Reference

Similarly in India, the southern state of Tamil Nadu, is fast becoming an aspirer to industrial development and home to more than 62 million people, is now facing drying wells with 95 percent of those in the farming community suffering.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peak Water Has Come and Gone Unnoticed] Reference

No; the aspirer was forgotten in the valetudinarian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ernest Maltravers — Complete] Reference

Follow this, young aspirer who pant'st for a peerage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes] Reference

But the aspiration was above the competency of the aspirer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities] Reference

Thaddeus Kosciusko that of his humble but sincere aspirer to such themes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thaddeus of Warsaw] Reference

'Le dandy,' says Baudelaire, 'doit aspirer a etre sublime sans interruption.    From Wordnik.com.  [Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation] Reference

The scholar had strengthened the aspirer; he could only imperfectly influence the conqueror.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete] Reference

The sole luxury the abstemious aspirer allowed to himself was that which is found in intellectual restlessness.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Novel — Complete] Reference

This young aspirer, originally from St. Paul, Minnesota, now resides in Hudson, Badger-St.te Wisconsin and is as sturdy as the animal.    From Wordnik.com.  [All articles at Blogcritics] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [My Novel — Complete] Reference

Le jeune homme ne tarda pas à partir, que Dieu conduise ses pas pour sa plus grande gloire, la seule chose à laquelle nous devons tous aspirer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of St. Teresa] Reference

He had seen enough of authors, and of the thorns that beset the paths of literature, to experience none of those delusions which cheat the blinded aspirer into the wilderness of publication -- that mode of obtaining fame and hatred to which those who feel unfitted for more bustling concerns are impelled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Godolphin, Complete] Reference

Certain it is that his son was left rich in purse and brain, which are good foundations, and fuel to ambition; and, it may be supposed, he was on all occasions well heard of the King as a person of mark and compassion in his eye, but I find not that he did put up for advancement during Henry VIII. 's time, although a vast aspirer and a provident stayer.    From Wordnik.com.  [FRAGMENTA REGALIA]

We’re no happier because we all reached the “aspirer” stage and chose the wrong aspiration.    From Wordnik.com.  [New new new new new « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog] Reference

I don’t think I’d ever join that insecure “status/aspirer” bracket, looking for self-esteem and respect, along with some reassurance.    From Wordnik.com.  [New new new new new « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog] Reference

I have as little of the leisure which becomes the aspirer to bonnes fortunes as I have the personal graces which obtain them without an effort; "and he inclined his head as in compliment.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Novel — Complete] Reference

Si c’est fidelité, ne vouloir aspirer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sonnets. i] Reference

Heavenly aspirer! —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

Mr. McP says I start leaning in the direction the conversation is coming from. bgriffiths Twitter should use @twitscoop for trends (& so should you) http://www. twitscoop.com narvic Depuis qu'on a compris comment aspirer ses followers Twitter sur friendfeed, c'est une vraie migration de masse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference

Alas, Zanoni! the aspirer, the dark, bright one!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zanoni] Reference

PRÉTENDRE, vouloir; soutenir, affirmer; aspirer.    From Wordnik.com.  [French Conversation and Composition] Reference

Now the contrast between Count Lubonski, defender of the old freedoms, and his liege Bukowski, aspirer toward the new, became irreconcilable, because the former summoned his private army to support the Russians, while the latter, attended by his peasant Buk, opted to join Kosciuszko, and though neither Lubonski nor Bukowski would have fired upon each other personally, each considered the other a traitor to Poland's cause and hoped that the traitor's side would perish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poland]