They all that charge did feruently apply, With greedie malice and importune toyle, 8 And planted there their huge artillery, With which they dayly made most dreadfull battery.
At what marke shooteth your greedie desire to beare rule, and your excessive thirst to atteine honour?
XV Not all so satisfide, with greedie eye He sought all round about, his thristie blade To bath in bloud of faithlesse enemy; Who all that while lay hid in secret shade: 130 He standes amazed, how he thence should fade.
Greedie and Ball were both committed for trial, but no record exists of their execution, and we may hope that they were acquitted of charges supported by such absurd and fallacious evidence.
I pass on to a remarkable trial for witchcraft which took place at Taunton Assizes in August, 1626, one Edward Ball and Joan Greedie being charged with having practised upon a certain Edward Dinham.
Sidenote: Note what loue of lucre orgreedie gaping after rewards dooth.
Phisitions, greedines of golde made them greedie of their destinie.
Alas, our Englishmen are the plainest dealing soules that euer God put life in: they are greedie of newes, and loue to be fed in their humors and heare themselues flattered the best that may be.
If greedie hunters and hungry teltales pursue you, it is for a little pelfe which you haue, cast it behind you, neglect it, let them haue it, lest it breed a further inconuenience.
What tacke in a pudding, saith greedie gut wringer, giue such ye wote what, ere a pudding he finger.
If then, content the chiefest riches bee, And greedie gripes, that doe abounde be pore.
At lengthe, this greediecarle the Lythergie posseste.
At lengthe, this greedie carle the Lethergie posseste: That vnneth hee could stere a foote.
Certes this misfortune hath not onelie happened vnto our Ile & nation, but vnto most of the famous countries of the world heretofore, and all by the greedie desire of such as would liue alone and onelie to themselues.
And thus much in generall of our noble vniuersities, whose lands some greedie gripers doo gape wide for, and of late haue (as I heare) propounded sundrie reasons, whereby they supposed to haue preuailed in their purposes.
No such sad cares, as wont to macerate And rend the greedie mindes of covetous men, 95 Do ever creepe into the shepheards den.
I saw her raunge abroad to seeke her food, And roming through the field with greedie rage T'embrew her teeth and clawes with lukewarm blood Of the small heards, her thirst for to asswage.
Who of the Grecian Libbard* now ought heares, That over-ran the East with greedie powre, And left his whelps their kingdomes to devoure?
Even by these three passiones that are within our selues: Curiositie in great ingines: thrist of revenge, for some tortes deeply apprehended: or greedie appetite of geare, caused through great pouerty.
Sidenote: The greediedealing of the Londoners to the hurt of the c[=o]mon-welth.
Herwith there went out of London 600 knights, and with them aboue twentie thousand men in armour, greedie (as it seemed) to haue the spoile of other mens goods.
All three as they were great states of birth, so were they great and statelie of stomach, greedie and ambitious of authoritie, and impatient of partners.
And in that point, which in good faith I am sorie to speake of, sauing that it is in vaine to keepe in counsell that thing that all men know, the kings greedie appetite was insatiable, and euerie where ouer all the realme intollerable.
This lady was suffering from violence, having been "rapt by greedie Lust," and the gentle squire himself had partaken of the mischance, in encountering that savage.
Yet this he does by connecting her name with Amoret carried away by "greedie Lust," and with Serena, who required to be healed of the wounds inflicted by scandal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "greedie" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
