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• How Success derides Ambition! (10)
• And so Farewell my young Ambition! (10)
• Because of my ambition. (10)
• It nerves an admonished ambition. (10)
• Has not Laetitia immense ambition? (10)
• My one ambition is to be out of it. (10)
• Ambition, as well as love, had probably been mortified. (4)
• My ambition had been blown to tatters. (10)
• She had, as she imagined, no ambition. (10)
• If she has the ambition, it elevates her. (10)
• He was the victim of the ambition of youth. (18)
• The ambition of her calling stirred in her. (12)
• Except in this we will say: personal ambition. (10)
• Their merit is, that they have not the ambition. (10)
• I have no better ambition than to be your friend. (10)
• His ambition is to lead all England in everything! (10)
• Vague, shapeless ambition had replaced love in yonder skies. (10)
• She had a distinct ability; the good ambition to use her qualities. (10)
• She was bugle, banner, sunrise, of his inmost ambition and rapture. (10)
• Do not imagine, Miss Bennet, that your ambition will ever be gratified. (4)
• Hard work had not threshed out ambition: the few grains left sprouted. (16)
• If they have their private ambition, they may suppose they are wasted. (10)
• It was his ambition to found a distinctive school of English composition. (3)
• When untroubled he was apt to let both his ambition and his dignity slumber. (10)
• Take poor Jorian for an example of what the absence of ambition brings men to. (10)
• He dwelt sharply on his vice of ambition, and scorned it as a misleading light. (10)
• He dwelt sharply on his vice of ambition, and scorned it as a misleading light. (22)
• He read one of his old forgotten compositions penned when he had that ambition. (10)
• His intemperateness lay in the craving to rise and lead: a precocious ambition. (10)
• The daring ambition that prompted me to love you, has met its heaviest retribution. (6)
• Bath rebukes my last fit of ambition, and the experience is very well worth the expense. (10)
• He was modest, retiring, humbly contented; a gentlemanly residence appeased his ambition. (10)
• You have a younger woman in your mind; I am an old one: I have no ambition and no warmth. (10)
• His great youthful ambition had descended to it, but had sunk to climb on a firmer footing. (10)
• Ambition is but another form of despair; it will carry her to the outermost boundary of life. (12)
• It was the ambition of our hero to be, like all public men, without fear and without reproach. (8)
• The ambition of Napoleon Bonaparte had rendered him an appalling danger to the whole of Europe. (19)
• She grows to be court singer, and defeats an older rival, but ambition makes her careless of love. (3)
• Stern ambition was uppermost in his mind again, and he began to plan to get back to Philadelphia. (18)
• That had been her shapeless ambition, dreamily expressed with reference to some time, as they rose. (9)
• Her father said he would see for her, and on this she explicitly renounced her ambition of going up. (9)
• And her fortune would be enormous: a speculation merely due to worldly prudence and prospective ambition. (10)
• In the world where he had lived this passion had a dignified name; it was called enterprise and ambition. (13)
• She must not be sacrificed to policy or ambition, and she must not be left to suffer from the dread of it. (4)
• But the key to young men is the ambition, or, in the place of it, the romantic sentiment nourished by them. (10)
• But the key to young men is the ambition, or, in the place of it, the romantic sentiment nourished by them. (22)
• It is no lofty ambition to desire to be remembered in that character, but such is your Clara, she discovers. (10)
• His great ambition must be covered by a house-top: he and the cat must warm themselves on the domestic hearth! (10)
• It might well be supposed that she regarded it in a perfect matter-of-fact way, and with no ambition beyond it. (9)
• Till you chose to turn her into a friend, her mind had no distaste for her own set, nor any ambition beyond it. (4)
• But if ambition is oversensitive, moral indignation is ever consolatory, for it plants us on the Judgement Seat. (10)
• No one who aspires to the honourable office of leading another by the nose can tolerate a party in his ambition. (10)
• Our haste was due to no more cogent reason than ambition to begin the fight with the river at the so-called cataracts. (20)
• When I first knew him he was chafing with the impatience of youth and ambition at what he thought his exile in the West. (9)
• He was still in the flush of his triumph, and talked rapidly of all the plans that opened out before his fervent ambition. (13)
• Her heart had been softened so that she could not think of frustrating his ambition, if it were no better than that, without pity. (9)
• He in the front rank of politicians attracted her with the lustre of his ambition; she him with her mingling of talent and beauty. (10)
• John Amor, a Pennsylvania circus leaper, who was a famous double somersault revolver, paid with his life for his ambition in 1859. (21)
• The old man smiled his fierce, simple smile, and in his sharp eyes March fancied contempt of the ambition he had balked in his son. (9)
• Except in the immediate suburbs of the large towns, there is no ambition beyond that of rustic comfort in the buildings on the shore. (9)
• Ambition and vanity, as well as discretion, play a restraining part here; they play it, even though there be no provocation to danger. (16)
• Good-bye to ambition, I thought, and ate heartily, considering robustly the while how far lower than the general level I might avoid falling. (10)
• When it finally appeared that her ambition for her son was not his ambition for himself and would never be, she abandoned it. (9)
• According to him, her appeals, her entreaties, that he should not abandon his profession or let his ambition rust, had been at one period constant. (10)
• Imbued with all the ambition of a young, vigorous and refined manhood, James Greydon prospered under the patronage of his benefactor, William Penn. (18)
• It is the ambition of the younger contributors to write like him; he has his following more distinctly recognizable than that of any other English-writing novelist. (9)
• Poor victims of ambition, they arranged their dresses, smiled at the leaves, and deliberately gave utterance to the dreadful nonsense of the laureates of our drawing-rooms. (10)

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