At lucre or renown let others aim, I only wish to please the gentle mind, Whom Nature's charms inspire, and love of human kind.
When lucre lures him, or ambition stings, Shall never know the source whence real grandeur springs.
And that such their subtility might not be perceived, they made him a like paire of eares and nose of wax: wherfore you may see that the poore miser for lucre of a little mony sustained losse of his members.
I doubt not but all theeves, and such as have a good judgement, will preferre their owne lucre and gain above all things in the world, and above their vengeance, which purchaseth damage to divers persons.
Last of all, no man can prove that I committed that fact for lucre or gaine.
Victuallers were closely watched lest in selling meat, eggs, butter, or oatmeal they should take “excess lucre upon them, selling that is to say more than 1d.
Finally the expression was extended to all of that class of Roman Catholics who while still believing in their former religion went under the color and pretense of converts for lucre and joined the Protestant Church.
Persons who changed their religion for lucre during the Souper Campaign were called "Turn Coats" by their Catholic neighbors.
That hid she in her rocky bed where it became gold of the mint; the filthy lucre of unworthiness and avarice, a blessing when in charity bestowed; a boon as the reward of honest labor!
But the battle was not fought for lucre or fame, nor according to the London Prize Ring Rules; it was fought in defense of a friend's honor, and the stake was life or death.
And the clerk of the market did it for the lucre and advantage of his master, that thereby his honour might increase; for by Christ's death he could have but small worldly advantage.
Those who receive the filthy lucre are corrupt already.
Think not, however, that motives of lucre would have been sufficiently powerful to tempt me to the East at the present moment.
He despises money, and if he does not return that little loan he borrowed of you, it is because he presumes that your contempt for filthy lucre is equal to his own.
My dear brethren," he cried, "is it possible that you can thus place the love of filthy lucre above the love of virtue?
Mr. Adolphus, in an able and ingenious address to the Jury, contended that the indictment must fail, inasmuch as the evidence did not satisfy the allegation in the indictment, that the defendant had sold the body for lucre and gain.
For since God's fear decayed, and hypocrisy crept in, In hope of some gains and lucre to win, Cruelty bare a stroke, who with fagot and fire Brought all things to pass that he did desire.
For so that thou mightest 'vantage and lucre obtain, Thou wouldest not stick to bring thine own brother to pain.
If you wish a fight now, it will be for the love of it, no filthy lucre being at stake.
The lucre which he so earnestly desired, not for its own stupid sake, but for the gratification of a secretly nursed purpose, began to flow in upon him in small but constant driblets.
He would have been rather glad to have the Doctor enter into some of these schemes for getting money, inasmuch as this same filthy lucre was all that Miss Ravenel needed to make her a very attractive partie.
But the God of Lucre had great reason to grumble at the God of War.
Walker's victory was not so sudden as Mrs. Larue's; his temptation was not so well suited as hers to the character of the victim; the love of lucre could not compare as a force with le divin sens du genesiaque.
Our town was overrun by hungry clergymen of many denominations and from nearly every state, all clamoring for the lucre to be obtained by preaching in our union church.
In my senior year I was forced by the necessity for securing lucre to pay the increasing graduation expenses, to teach the high school in Bristol, Conn.
Mr. Lucre bowed, and smiled contemptuously, but made no reply.
There were strong mutual objections to pass the roads to Mr. Lucreand M'Clutehy, and a regular conflict between their respective partisans accordingly took place.
How could it go farther with the lives of such men as your father and Lucre staring me in the face?
His wife was niece to a nobleman, through whose influence he had been promoted over the head of a learned and pious curate, whose junior Mr. Lucre had been in the ministry only about the short period of twenty-five years.
Lucre still stuck to the hypothesis of liquor, and accordingly went and rang the porter's bell, who immediately appeared.
Lucre perceived this, and avoided him as much as he could; but, in fact, the thing was impossible.
Still, in fact, we cannot stop here, for in good truth Mr. Lucre had yet stronger claims for preferment than any we have yet mentioned.
It is scarcely necessary to say that either Mr. Lucre or Mr. M'Cabe were at all upon terms of intimacy.
An important clause in the official oath is "to delay no man's cause forlucre or malice.
I'm always glad,' continued Nevill Lloyd virtuously, when Lucreand his crew are hit!
Well, I hope to goodness Filthy Lucre won't come as John Ellison, or I shall feel it my duty to knock him down.
