They have certain vague but highly material ambitions for her matrimonially, which she, a very sensible girl, doesn't subscribe to.

Pleasant dreams in which the buoyant ego soared, until the logical interpretation of her ambitions brought her to a more practical consideration of ways and means, and that in turn confronted her with the fact that she could leave the Pacific coast to-morrow morning if she so chose.

The letters of foreign correspondents opened to their childish eyes another world and roused ambitions to see it.

And as he studied, ambitions awoke.

His curiosity keenly aroused, his ambitions kindled by his studies, Russell was restless to be off to see this great world he had read and studied about.

It was a solemn hour, an hour in which worldly ambitions faded before the sublime spectacle of a man freely, calmly giving his very life because he had dared to live out his honest belief that all men should be free.

Ambitions seethed in him to know, to be able to do.

Useless years they seemed to him now, years filled with petty ambitions that had to do solely with self.

It did not lesson his ambitions.

In the loneliness and despair that followed, worldly ambitions turned to dust and ashes.

Those were black days, days that taught him how unstable were the things of this worldmoney, position, the ambitions that once had seemed so worthy.

The thought that he was thus influencing others for good, that he was leading men and women into paths of sure happiness brought him a spiritual calm and peace such as the gratification of worldly ambitions had never given him.

No one who knew him intimately could doubt his entire renunciation of worldly ambitions, the sacrifice was so great, yet so unhesitatingly made.

The real disgust lies in the selfish passions that are called into play by the strife of party and the small ambitions of public men, and not in any mere coarseness in the expression of them.

The only unbroken outside influence which directed and stimulated him in his ambitions was that coming first from his mother, then from his step-mother.

So strongly was he moved by the scenes of his first conscious sorrows, efforts, joys, ambitions, that he put into verse the feelings they awakened.[A]

At all events, my literary ambitions, with this solitary exercise, came to a sudden suspension.

I forgot all my wild unattainable ambitions in the little pleasures of everyday life.

She is intensely matter-of-fact and practical, possessed of no ambitions or aspirations not capable of being turned into cash value.

Somehow he had contrived surreptitiously to pick up the dates and leading facts of his father's campaigns (making a speciality of the Battle of Wagram), but the vague ambitions which they inspired only helped his little mind to prey upon itself.

The Duke had his ambitions gratified by an appointment as Ambassador to a distant country; the Duchess, left behind at Parma, was able to devote herself to the interests of Count Mosca, the Prince's chief Minister, and to counteract the intrigues of the celebrated Marchioness Raversi, head of the party that sought to overthrow him.

These ambitions might be forwarded, he deemed, by the successful marriage of his daughter.

To his son he gave a letter from Sarah to her brother, betraying her cold-blooded ambitions.

But apart altogether from the expansionist ambitions and the racial sympathies of their kindred in Bulgaria, Servia, and Greece, the population of Macedonia had the same right to emancipation from Turkish domination and oppression as their brethren in these neighboring states.

RIVAL AMBITIONS OF THE ALLIES