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Sentences starting with ambition

Ambition and love will also sustain her like two mighty wings on the proud height to which they have borne her, so long as they dwell harmoniously in her fiery soul. [10]
Ambition and love were the moving forces of my life. [10]
Ambition became it well. [11]
Ambition has her own means of punishing. [11]
Ambition stirred within me. [9]
Ambition has killed me, and it has killed her--the Comtesse. [11]
Ambition and patriotism intermingled, and only He who made human nature knew how much was pure patriotism and how much pure ambition. [11]
Ambition was strong in her likewise. [9]
Ambition leaped in him. [9]
Ambition had entered her soul in a definite form. [4]

Sentences ending with ambition

And, if you wish to remain where you are, you will do well to sacrifice your wild ambition. [10]
But you are wholly lacking in ambition. [9]
He would raise up in Louisiana as a monument to himself a daughter of France to curb their ambition. [9]
It was nothing to them that I, a stranger, must be sacrificed upon the altar of their unholy ambition. [5]
Sophie had gone to school at the convent in the city, but she had no ambition. [11]
It was useless to point out to her that her alfresco life was singularly blessed and free from care, and the happy lot of any one who could loiter all day by this laughing stream, undisturbed by debt or ambition. [4]
This was disconcerting to Madame Lavilette, who had hoped that out of Farcinelle's official position she might reap some praise and pence of ambition. [11]
To get money to do things, no matter how,--or little matter how; to be in the swim, and that swim all too rapidly washing out the real people--that was the almost universal ambition. [11]
Was this then the summit of her ambition? [4]
They were planning the New York house, which had been one of the objects of Henderson's early ambition. [4]

Short sentences using ambition

My ambition is to record. [4]
But what ambition is that? [11]
He possessed little ambition. [10]
What an ambition! [11]

Sentences containing ambition two or more times

Her ambition for him he felt was likewise the South's ambition for him. [9]

More example sentences with the word ambition in them

He was a young man with a praiseworthy ambition to get on in the world, and during his apprenticeship in the office of the Honourable Hilary Vane many letters and documents had passed through his hands. [9]
What straggles of young ambition, finding no place for its energies, or feeling its incapacity to reach the ideal towards which it was striving! [6]
Ah, what ambition you had when I first knew you on the Zambesi, when the old red umbrella, but for you, would have carried me over into the mist and the thunder! [11]
We gave the world tobacco and the potato, perhaps the most important contributions to the content and the fatness of the world made by any new country, and it was a noble ambition to give it new styles of art and literature also. [4]
I was inspired with the absurd ambition, not uncommon to youthful students, of knowing as much as their masters. [6]
His ambition rose with his fortune. [6]
I have met with friends, and combated with foes; but none of these gratify my ambition, or decide what is to be my destiny. [5]
Eliphalet had ambition, which is not a wholly undesirable quality. [9]
The lofty ambition which had inspired her noblest and most praiseworthy deeds had more than once been the source of acts which she herself regretted. [10]
The fiery ambition which consumes you will not suffer you to be the wife of a man who is second to any other. [10]
And then he went on in a hurried whisper: "I know what your ambition is, and my support may be of use to you. [10]
He knew too well the old feud between their houses, the ambition that had possessed many a Vaufontaine to inherit the dukedom of Bercy, and the Duke's futile revolt against that possibility. [11]
His ambition, if we may use so large a word for the sentiment that had filled his breast, had been coincident with his prenuptial passion for Honora. [9]
It's human life, Washington--just an epitome of human ambition, and struggle, and the outcome: you aim for the palace and get drowned in the sewer. [5]
His tortured heart was stirred with deep emotion, and the drooping wings of ambition unfolded with fresh energy. [10]
Alice, who discerned very clearly Mrs. Mavick and her ambition, was troubled by Philip's absorption and the cruel disappointment in store for him. [4]
The historians tell us with naive assurance that its causes were the wrongs inflicted on the Duke of Oldenburg, the nonobservance of the Continental System, the ambition of Napoleon, the firmness of Alexander, the mistakes of the diplomatists, and so on. [2]
Belief was stamped upon it; not expectation or ambition, but faith and fidelity. [11]
And he set up, instead, his ambition for his country. [9]
It was an unworthy ambition, perhaps, but I did wish I could make this man admire something about me or something I did--you would have felt the same way. [5]
It was Mrs. Tyler's ambition to become thin (which was hitching her wagon to a star with a vengeance), and she invited our heroine to share her constitutional on the porch. [9]
These were they to whom the Curb's beautiful ambition did not appeal. [11]
Capable of sacrifice to their country, personal ambition is, nevertheless, the mainspring of their actions. [9]
She was stung to the quick by the comments of the newspapers; her spirit was roused, her ambition was towering, now. [5]
It is monstrous to me that the situation should be made on either side a political occasion for private ambition or for party ends. [4]
Nations thus tempted to interfere are not always able to resist the counsels of seeming expediency and ungenerous ambition, although measures adopted under such influences seldom fail to be unfortunate and injurious to those adopting them. [7]
Besides, by appealing to his ambition, he could be induced to put forth all his powers, and, if his teachers aimed at what they studiously omitted, it would not be difficult to make a scholar of him. [10]
They hardly seemed to have strength enough or ambition enough to walk across the street--I do not know that I have seen one walk that far yet. [5]
He was ambitious to distinguish himself by some great service to mankind, and this ambition for fame and real public service left no room for avarice in his composition. [7]
Their ambition aspired to display before an admiring world a practical demonstration of the truth of a proposition which had hitherto been considered at best no better than problematical--namely, the capability of a people to govern themselves. [7]
Her ambition was to appear simple and superior to all worldly vanities; still, all she wore must be rich and costly, for she was here to do honor to her creed. [10]
Through his life-work, through his ambition, through helping him as no one else could have done at the time of crisis, she had reached the farthest confines of his nature. [11]
What most surprised those who knew him as a young man was, not his ambition, not his brilliancy, but his dogged, continuous capacity for work. [6]
I think that this is the last flare of the ambition and energy of your Jean Jacques. [11]
Where does all this ambition for names without realities come from? [6]
I do not think it is personal vanity or ambition, though I am not free from these infirmities, but I cannot but feel that the weal or woe of this great nation will be decided in November. [7]
The publishers of these useful volumes for stimulating speculation and ambition did not dare to take the least liberties with Murad Ault. [4]
Is it unreasonable, then, to expect that some man possessed of the loftiest genius, coupled with ambition sufficient to push it to its utmost stretch, will at some time spring up among us? [7]
I shall treat the Ten as a whole because they did not materially differ from one another in dress or habits or ambition or general usefulness on this earth. [9]
I recognized in the social system of undergraduate life at Harvard a reflection of that of a greater world where I hoped some day to shine; yet my ambition did not prey upon me. [9]
It was, at the same time, an ambition that they perfectly understood, and did not condemn on any ethical grounds. [4]
I had only the one definite ambition, to revenge Lord Holland. [9]
But power is the most common ambition, and only a handful of the hundreds of millions get it in any large way. [11]
The possession of the least organized naval force would stimulate a generous ambition in the republic, and the confidence which we should manifest by furnishing it would win forbearance and favor toward the colony from all civilized nations. [7]
Mr. Watling was the least excited of them all; remarkably calm, I thought, for a man on the verge of realizing his life's high ambition. [9]
I fancy it's the great ambition of their lives to be met. [8]
Ambition, hope, youth, the Foreign Office, the chancelleries of Europe, the perils of impending war, were all forgotten, or sunk into the dusky streams of subconsciousness. [11]
But success, to the Charlotte Plimptons, is its own justification, and now her ambition (which had ramifications) was to have Alison "do" her a garden. [9]
She told herself that, had he lacked ambition, she could not have loved him, and did not stop to reflect upon the completeness of her satisfaction with the Viking. [9]
A terrible war, that, between ambition and pride--a war to the knife. [9]
She came with that sense of manifold deficiencies, and eager ambition to supply them, which carries any learner upward, as if on wings, over the heads of the mechanical plodders and the indifferent routinists. [6]
He put down that mightiest thing that was in him,--his ambition for himself. [9]
Is it true that in England, where a great proportion of the fiction we describe and loathe is produced; is it true that in our New England society there is nothing but frivolity, sordidness, decay of purity and faith, ignoble ambition and ignoble living? [4]
These people--I suppose that if two castaways landed naked on a desert island, one of them would instantly be the ancien regime--had spoken of Mrs. Henderson and her ambition to the Earl of Chisholm in a way that pained him. [4]
If he believed that his chances of obtaining either were as poor as the majority of men find them to be, ambition would die within him. [4]
And she knew that he was renouncing thus lightly, for her sake an ambition he had had from his school days. [9]
Ambition--a purer ambition than I had known for years--leaped within me at his words. [9]
Pierre had a taste for conquest for its own sake, though he had no personal ambition. [11]
She was the sun that melted the frozen torrents and set them boiling; with that sun removed, they froze again, and the army and all France became what they had been before, mere dead corpses--that and nothing more; incapable of thought, hope, ambition, or motion. [5]
My father had succeeded in presenting my ambition as the height of absurdity and presumption, and with something of the despair of a shipwrecked mariner my eyes rested on the green expanses of those book-backs, Bohn's Standard Library! [9]
It was a stern and terrible trial for a man of acute sensibility, and not without force of intellect and will, and the manly ambition for himself and his family-name which belonged to his endowments and his position. [6]
I could see something devilish in the smile at Doltaire's lip's, but his look was wandering between Alixe and me, and he replied urbanely, "I have ambition yet--to connive at captivity"; and then he looked full and meaningly at her. [11]
In each act someone's edifice of hope, or of ambition, or of happiness, goes down in ruins. [5]
She was built some thing on the plan of the mountains, and her ambition to explore was equal to her size. [4]
Escape was his sole ambition now. [11]
You had ambition, so had I. [11]
I have long since learned that the perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy, is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambition to our capacities; we will then be a happy and a virtuous people. [5]
The thought that she is the object of a poet's love is one which fills a woman's ambition more completely than all that wealth or office or social eminence can offer. [6]
I knew how she feels, and that there is no other satisfied ambition, whether of king, conqueror, or poet, that ever reaches half-way to that serene far summit or yields half so divine a contentment. [5]
How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed. [7]
My ambition is seamed with a flaw. [9]
Call me a Scarabaeist if you will; if I can prove myself worthy of that name, my highest ambition will be more than satisfied. [6]
In imagination she saw him there, a straight, slim, handsome figure, with the very vanity of proud health upon him, and ambition and passionate purpose in every line of his figure, every glance of his eyes. [11]
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. [7]
Man is the rival of other men; he delights in competition, and this leads to ambition which passes too easily into selfishness. [1]
Youth, ambition and resolve would have saved him from the worst then. [11]
As to the Ratisbon maiden----" "I should be very glad to know," Quijada began, this time in a submissive tone, "by what sign your Majesty's penetration discovered this young creature's ambition. [10]
But this I put by as improbable, for the Intendant's post was not his ambition, or, favourite of La Pompadour as he was, he would, desiring, have long ago achieved that end. [11]
Did not the President indorse those sins when, on the very heel of their commission, he appointed their author to the very highest and most honorable office in his gift, and which is but a single step behind the very goal of American political ambition? [7]
It was all Philip, Philip full of hope, purpose, prowess, ambition. [11]
Thus are people persecuted by dragomen, whose sole ambition in life is to get ahead of each other. [5]
Mr. Satterlee might perhaps surmise the truth, but the town and village would think her ambition a very natural one, certainly no better time could have been chosen to announce it. [9]
When he commanded Pentaur to meet the princess with words of reproof, he had hoped to awaken his ambition through the proud sense of power over the mighty ones of the earth. [10]
It was Landrassy's own last battle-field of wit and scheming, of intellect and ambition. [11]
His game was over; his journey of ambition was done. [11]
These ambitions faded out, each in its turn; but the ambition to be a steamboatman always remained. [5]
I can't wipe out what I have done, but I can put you right before the world, I can prove to you that I set you above place and ambition. [11]
It was not only ambition, and the habit of answering every good saying he heard with a better one, but kindly feeling, that urged him to honor the generous benefactor with a speech. [10]
There was no one moment when he launched into great popularity--nay, in detail, he seemed to himself not to have made the strike that ambition is always expecting. [4]
His small head on its long neck was never for a moment still; the ruthless wretch had sat waiting day after day in expectation of death, and it was by a miracle that he found himself once more at the height of his ambition. [10]
The oaks shook off long tresses of their mossy beards to the tugging of the wind, and the bayou in its ambition put on miniature waves in mocking of much larger bodies of water. [5]
Twice the whirring of startled waterfowl frightened me out of my senses, but ambition pricked me on in spite of fear. [9]
He had ambition of several kinds, and he had the virtue of not caring who knew of it. [11]
The generous heart of Mark Antony does not throb in Octavianus's breast, but he is not cruel, and for the very reason that cool calculation curbs ambition he will spare you. [10]
She was out of humor that day, besides she shared some of her father's political ambition. [9]
In the pride of his young ambition he had aspired to be a steamboat mate; and in fancy saw himself dominating a forecastle some day on the Mississippi and dictating terms to roustabouts in high and wounding terms. [5]
In the light of Fulkerson's history of the family, its origin and its ambition, he interpreted it to mean a sense of her sister's folly and an ignorant will to override his opinion of anything incongruous in themselves and their surroundings. [8]
A Cambridge graduate of ambition and ability found an opening far from undesirable in a worldly point of view, in a profession which he was led to choose by higher motives. [6]
It was an object of the highest ambition to be one of those who ate at the king's table, and even he to whom a portion was sent might deem himself a highly-favored man. [10]
There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education. [7]

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