Greed

Examples

• But a man who believes in something else than his own greed, has necessarily a conscience or standard to which he more or less adapts himself. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But it seemed to him, woman was always so horrible and clutching, she had such a lust for possession, a greed of self-importance in love. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The greed of Germany in 1871 had made France her inveterate enemy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But submission only increased the arrogance of Rome and the pitiless greed of the rich Equestrian order which swayed her counsels. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In them, too, was greed for the toothsome dainty the boy carried. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Thou canst easily gratify his greed; for think not that I am blinded by thy pretexts of poverty. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• There was none of this robing of greed and crime about Napoleon. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• His greed at dinner, too, was closely in keeping with the greed of Monsieur Rigaud at breakfast. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• They know that the responsibility for insurrections rests in the last analysis upon the unimaginative greed and endless stupidity of the dominant classes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Such was the greed of the fellow, that his mind had shot beyond halves, two-thirds, three-fourths, and gone straight to spoliation of the whole. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• One of its primary impulses was to protect property against the greed and waste of kings and the exploitation of noble adventurers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The world of Islam was rent in twain by the spites, greeds, and partisan silliness of a handful of men and women in Medina. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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