His thoughts dwelt so much on this subject, that ambition at length became a dangerous rival to the softer sentiment.

But ambition was her idol; and to its powerful rival, love, she was yet a stranger.

Caldigate declared that, with all his ambition to be a miner, he must have a change of shirts.

Military ambition and thirst for foreign conquest were not the peculiar sins of Egyptian kings; they sought rather to develop national industries and resources.

Ambition and enterprise were strong traits in his character; and what he devised, his firmness of constitution, vigor of health, force of principle, and untiring perseverance, enabled him to pursue to its accomplishment.

"If you have the least little scrap of a mustard-seed of taste, and plenty of will-power, you can cultivate all the talents you want," said Patty, with the air of an oracle, "Why, what do you want to do now, Marian?" Marian's ambitions were a good deal of a joke in the Elliott family.

His highest ambition then is concert giving and travelling.

But she lived in an age in which wealth is power, and ambition was her ruling passion.

The ambition of excelling in conversation, and that pride of victory, which, at times, disgraced a man of Johnson's genius, were, perhaps, native blemishes.

One of the Most Promising Boys in a Graded School had a Burning Ambition to be a Congressman.

Of the last of the four works named, Carlyle, who has done more than any one else yet to bring Goethe near us, once said, "There are some ten pages of that book that, if ambition had been my object, I would rather have written than all the literature of my time.

Ambition was the characteristic of her family: and she went, not unwillingly, to the altar.

"Ambition, without the corresponding strength to gratify it, is a cruel taskmaster.

And when, in 1804, Pitt resumed the government, his attention was too completely engrossed by the diplomatic arrangements by which he hoped to unite all the nations east of the Rhine in resistance to a power whose ever aggressive ambition was a standing menace to every Continental kingdom, for him to be able to spare time for the consideration of measures of domestic policy, except such as were of a financial character.

Arrived at the legislature, his next ambition is office, and to secure and retain office he engages in elaborate manoeuvres against the opposite party, upon issues which his limited and specialised intelligence indicates as electorally effective.

In the former he has the following beautiful lines on Ambition; Ambition is a mistress few enjoy!

About ten o'clock that evening Lancelot and Tregarva were walking stealthily up a ride in one of the home-covers, at the head of some fifteen fine young fellows, keepers, grooms, and not extempore 'watchers,' whom old Harry was marshalling and tutoring, with exhortations as many and as animated as if their ambition was 'Mourir pour la patrie.

Ambition was the fault of the seraphim in the commencementbe well assured that some of the old angelic leaven lingers still about all of its votaries and victims.

The nation's ambitions were aspirations.

Ambition has been the bane of my life, Mary; and when I could no longer be ambitious for myselfwhen my own existence had become a mere death in life, I began to dream and to scheme for the aggrandisement of my granddaughter.

He saw them all clearly, resolved upon the course he should take; and throughout a long reign, in which the paramount ambition of rendering Russia independent and the throne supreme was the leading feature of his policy, he pursued his plans with undeviating consistency.

In all untrained and vulgar minds, the ambition of speaking well is but a dormant or very weak principle.

Ambition is personal force.

"Ambition is its mirage, ever beckoning, ever recedinglove its Dead Sea fruit, fair without and dust within.

Such was their answer; and if you knew their most secret thoughts, you would have no difficulty in discovering that the ambition of the South, its turbulent policy, and its aggressions without pretext, are far from exciting the gratitude of English commerce, or of inspiring its confidence.