The seal is indeed a greedy fellow, and ten times worse than his fresh-water cousin the otter, who, it seems, is considered by the poor people in the north country as rather a benefactor than otherwise.
Luckily, however the Holy Virgin had inspired me to hide it in the mule's saddle-girths, and so, the zechins escaped their greedy fangs.
England has the reputation of holding her own with a firm and tenacious grasp; and by foreign rivals it is imputed to her as a crime that she is greedy and aggressive, more apt to take with both hands, than to give up with either.
It is a mercy she did not marry some greedy foreigner while she was under age.
But when the eighth year came in due season, there arrived a Phoenician practised in deceit, a greedy knave, who had already done much mischief among men.
Thither came the Phoenicians, mariners renowned, greedy merchant men, with countless gauds in a black ship.
Papist or Protestant, Tory or Whig, Priest or Alderman, all was one to those greedy and savage natures, provided only there was money to earn, and blood to shed.
In a society altogether disorganised, they had no difficulty in finding greedy adventurers to follow their standards.
He was greedy after power with a greediness all his own.
But such levelling doings not suiting at all with the craving temper of the greedy Lion, without farther delay he flew upon the Ass, and tore him in pieces; and then bid the Fox divide it into two parts.
Great monarchs have been drawn in, by this greedy humour, to grasp at the dominions of their neighbours; not that they wanted any thing more to feed their luxury, but to gratify their insatiable appetite for vain-glory.
He asked the bass and the pollock; but they were so greedy after the shrimps that they did not care to answer him a word.
In this way they guard their eggs against being stolen by the other females, which are so greedy to raise large families that they seize every chance to rob the surrounding nests.
The saints, too, must have tesvino, because they are greedy and exacting, and have to be propitiated.
There are always plenty of fellows, ready for adventures, greedy to earn money, and eager to join such an expedition.
The old-fashioned Press of ideas has made prodigious strides since the days of Armand Carrel, and the modern reader is more especially greedy for facts.
It is still left to us to enjoy the spectacle of the great sea-locusts in flight, rising in flocks into the air to escape from their greedy comrades in the water, and dappling the wide blue plain with their winged whiteness.
I know; but the reforms which come from the head are annulled lower down, thanks to the greedy desire of officials to enrich themselves in a short time, and to the ignorance of the people, who accept everything.
The next year he returned to the Philippines to find himself the idol of the natives and a thorn in the flesh of friars and greedy officials.
The fiord, greedy of its prey, had a loud voice, stunning her by ringing in her ears, as though to swallow her up more surely by coming between her and life.
The physician was a sturdy citizen, dressed in black, with a florid, keen, and greedy face, giving himself airs of importance.
Did not you feel a sense of his fascination exerted over a greedy and lustful race, in this overture, which is an epitome of the opera?
Instead of the faith indispensable to social existence, they brought in their train, and long after them, an inquisitive philosophy, armed with hammers, and greedy of destruction.
You are as the hidden treasure over which men trample, greedy for gold, but not knowing that it is there.
In point of fact, all the affinities are bound together by immediate similarities; the life of worlds is attracted to centres by a greedy aspiration, just as you are all driven by hunger to seek nourishment.
And so greedy was the king after gold, that when at last the ore began to fail, he caused the miners to reduce the pillars which Peter and they that followed him had left standing to bear the city.
While we could scarcely restrain the others from immoderately greedy indulgence in meats and other foods of which they had long been deprived, he voluntarily continued the fast so long forced upon him.
Into his shrivelled fingers the great medicine-man took a small, round stone, chanting strange words of magic all the while; his greedy eyes were on the girl, his greedy thoughts about her.
The hearts that had come her way were as selfish as her own, and knew how to slip elusively from greedy little hands, without yielding too much.
There had been only one fancy dress in Diana's wardrobe, that of a Persian lady; and for once she showed herself greedy in the matter of clothes, and calmly commandeered it without consulting April.
He is forward and greedy and intrusive, as you justly point out, and I wish you joy of him when those qualities are fully developed.
Why, papas and mammas now-a-days seem quite proud to let their friends see how bold and greedy and talkative their children can be!
But Rorie, who wasgreedy of superstitious lore, recalled him to the subject by a question.
But it was notable that he was no less speedily satisfied than he had been greedy to begin.
In the sunshine a greedy neighbor is thinking how to decrease his land, in the night the active thief is breaking through the door to his granary.
A tenth, a hundredth part of that wealth which is lying in the temples and feeding the greedy eyes of those bare heads would make me independent for years of Phoenicians.
They pay him no tribute, they carry no burdens for the army, but they toil to give income to the greedy Phoenician.
He held out his hand, took hers, covered it with a greedy kiss, then held it on his knee; and he played delicately with her fingers whilst he murmured a thousand blandishments.
Such an opportunity would naturally be improved by the greedy Persian official to impose an onerous tax upon the Jews.
The Jews were probably ground down under their greedy Persian governors.
When Judas and his army returned from pursuing them, he said to the people, Do not be greedy for the spoils, since there is a battle before us, and Gorgias and his army are near us in the mountain.
His authority as Persian governor doubtless carried great weight with the cringing, greedy leaders at Jerusalem.
The young Queen was under the governance of Filippa the Catanese, an evil woman, greedy of power.
He swore it readily, for he was very greedy of power, and saw the door of his return to it opening wider than he could have hoped.
He was just a greedy schemer, without the wit to dissemble his appetite or the patience necessary to secure attainment.
The man who follows the wrong path never attains it, but with much fatigue of mind and greedy eyes looks always before him.
