If you think that this is a piece of impudence on my part, Mr. Massingbred,-if it's your opinion that in aspiring to be connected with the Martins I'm forgetting my place and my station, just say so at once.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
We have happily now to do with a more aspiring and a less uniformly composed working class.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
This she knew now had been the fault of her aspiring mother, who had spent his by no means large income in an attempt to win a prominent position in second-rate smart society, and had succeeded to the extent of marrying her other daughter well.
"A Prairie Courtship"
Harold Bindloss