... but because avarice wasa passion which dominated him...
Antonio de Trueba Henry J. Gill 「The Cid Campeador」
... With ill-concealed avarice he looked uponthe age-old, golden tablets set in the walls of nearly every room anddown the sides of many of the corridors...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar」
...Too, Werper had his covetous soul set upon the pouch of gems, and so hewas torn between the various emotions of avarice and fear...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar」
...Thus followed a speedy intercourse with each other, and a confidence, highly favourable to the views of avarice or ambition...
Thomas Clarkson 「An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African」
...The gold and amber were highly gratifying to Moorish avarice,but the pocket-compass soon became an object of superstitiouscuriosity...
Mungo Park 「Travels in the Interior of Africa, Vol. 1 [of 2]」
...This demand, the patricians in their avarice never would accede to...
P. J. Proudhon 「What is Property?」
...—It is added, that when Titus remonstratedwith his father on his avarice, Vespasian made him smellthe gold for which the horse's dung had been sold, asking himwhether it smelt bad...
Angelo de Gubernatis 「Zoological Mythology, Volume I (of 2)」
...Mahel was thislady’s youngest brother, of whom Camden records that “thejudgment of God overtook him for his rapacious ways, inhumane cruelties,and boundless avarice, always usurping other men’s rights...
H. G. Nicholls 「The Forest of Dean」
...In the time of Lucian, a philosopher was distinguished by three things,—his avarice,his impudence, and his beard...
John Trusler 「The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings」
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