"I had just sat down in my office when Bill Pettigrew came inSam's great rival in the grocery an' aspiration business.

"The number of simple vowel and consonant sounds in our tongue is twenty-eight, and one pure aspiration h, making in all twenty-nine.

When at last she regained her health, the loss of her mother and the crosses of every-day life served still further to solemnize her mind, and to turn her aspirations heavenwards.

Only from a richly gifted mind, and a heart whose longings no fullness of mortal affection has power to permanently appease, could these aspirations issue.

Our every mood of penitence, praise, and aspiration resounds in melodious and time-defying strains.

In America a similar aspiration results in immense establishments far beyond the needs of the immediate family.

Upward and onward is his course, In mental and in moral life, With higher purpose, now, perforce, With loftier aspirations rife.