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1  It was they who would carry out her aspiration.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
2  She was fond of the other librarians; proud of their aspirations.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
3  She would make the dramatic association understand her aspiration.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
4  She had insisted that in the belated quest of these work-stained women was an aspiration which ought to stir her tears.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
5  But I have won in this: I've never excused my failures by sneering at my aspirations, by pretending to have gone beyond them.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
6  He talked only of the obvious and tedious aspects; never of his aspirations in finance, nor of the mechanical principles of motors.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
7  It is probable that the agitated citizen has within his circle at least one inarticulate rebel with aspirations as wayward as Carol's.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX
8  Its conception of a community ideal is not the grand manner, the noble aspiration, the fine aristocratic pride, but cheap labor for the kitchen and rapid increase in the price of land.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXII
9  Before that time, she knew, a hundred generations of Carols will aspire and go down in tragedy devoid of palls and solemn chanting, the humdrum inevitable tragedy of struggle against inertia.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
10  Vida had done her a service; had made all agonizing seem so fatuous that she ceased writhing and saw that her whole problem was simple as mutton: she was interested in Erik's aspiration; interest gave her a hesitating fondness for him; and the future would take care of the event.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXI