There were prodigal sons, avaricious fathers, and rapacious courtezans, in Rome as well as in Greece(340).
Wido, the Count of Ponthieu, an unscrupulous and avaricious man, threw the earl into prison, and held him to ransom.
He was as grasping and avaricious as his predecessor William, though he was much less arbitrary and harsh in his exactions.
An avaricious man is more lavish of his life than of his money.
The riches of an avaricious man go either to naught or to an heir.
His face had very plainly paled and in his eyes was an expression of such avaricious eagerness and satisfaction as she had never seen before upon a human countenance.
It can only be so while the sum played for is of too trifling a concern to excite the anxiety which avaricious minds experience; and every one is more or less avaricious who gives up his time to cards.
Again, an avariciouslover might, with some difficulty, secure both horse and rider, but he could hardly travel far with an unwilling girl and a stolen horse, without becoming uncomfortably conspicuous.
He was anavaricious man, always devising some new scheme.
Over the town, at last free of its avaricious masters, free of the savage spirit of an outlaw time.
This avaricious tyrant sowed the wind until in 1635 he was like to reap the whirlwind.
As the king could not be approached except by some intermediate agent, they brought their influence to bear upon the bigoted, avaricious queen-mother Eleanor, and they succeeded.
The just Caliph Abradhi was now on the throne, in the place of the cruel and avaricious Kahir, who had decreed Saadiah's deposition.
And therefore saith St. Augustine, that the avaricious man is likened unto hell, that the more it swalloweth the more desire it hath to swallow and devour.
It is not destruction but reconstruction that is the outcome of contemporary biblical exegesis, one of the representatives of English Unitarianism, the Rev.
The father ought repeatedly to talk to the orphan child of the dead mother.
Folks were merely astonished that such a harsh, avaricious woman should have been willing to quit this life without taking her goods and chattels with her.
They agreed very well together in their avaricious rage at being unable to amass money by the handful without any great exertion, and in their ambition to make their son a gentleman, since only a gentleman could become wealthy.
Nevertheless, as years rolled by, some unacknowledged remorse had come to them amid their happiness at having him beside them like some hoarded treasure, the delight of an avaricious old age, following a life of prodigality.
They differ much from the Irayas in character, for they are inhospitable, avaricious and greedy, and of a gloomy disposition.
While taking cold bites during the hour of respite which the avaricious administration accords us, we pass our chiefs in review, and compare their profits with our own.
The next character in which I was destined to appear in the flesh was that of an avaricious Jew.
I had read that the Dutch are avaricious and selfish, and that they have a habit of boring people with long accounts of their ailments, but as I studied the Dutch character I came to see that these charges are untrue.
Philpot= (Senior), anavaricious old hunks, and father of George Philpot.
The multiplying birds aroused the avaricious alarm of the abbot, who forbade the daily distribution.
The avaricious man reaches the summit of his ambition, and no sooner does he so than he finds the object of his desire as far off as ever.
The master of that lumber wagon is a blame avaricious insect!
He was a middle-aged man, with a pale, puffy face and avaricious eyes.
But these old personal relics, of no monetary value--you should waive your avaricious and indelicate claim to them.
Is it avaricious to offer double the worth of the rental?
Do not think, Madame, that I am asavaricious as you.
The man was of powerful frame, and too avaricious to part with his goods without a struggle.
He called the animals his cousins, and reminded them that his protecting influence was the reason they remained unharmed, while many avaricious traders were prompting the Indians to take their lives.
