Was it possible that Mr. Brisket might be expected to entertain less mercenary ideas when he found that his prize was really to be carried off by another?
The mercenary slaughterer will reject that fair hand at last, unless it comes to him weighted with a money-bag.
His income as catechist was small, but I often heard him charged with the lowest mercenary motives by those who knew not, and did not wish to know, anything about his antecedents.
You coupled those two facts together in such a way as to make me think you were ready to contract a mercenary marriage.
Your affection has nothing mercenary in it, of course.
Yes, and the only reason you're not mercenary is that you don't have to think about it.
He could always remember that of himself at least; and remembering that now, he could take a delight in these bright money prospects without having to accuse himself in the slightest degree of mercenary motives.
But he was by no means mercenary in his views so, at least, he assured himself.
If she was grateful to her lover--and the affection he had inspired in her heart had grown out of gratitude--it was no mercenary consideration as to his income or position that made her grateful.
For your cruel mercenary heartless designing father's sake, you are going to marry a man whom you can't love.
It seemed to him as if he had been wakened abruptly from some bright bewildering dream; but the sharp pang of mercenary desires disappointed, of sordid hopes suddenly reft, was not for him.
I can only assure you that I married your client with the consent and approval of her only near relation, and uninfluenced in the smallest degree by mercenary considerations.
And I took care sometimes to drop words of cottages and love, and how happy the woman was who fixed her affections on a man in such a station of life that she might show her love without being suspected of hypocrisy or mercenary views.
Bijai Singh, in Rajput fashion, was ready to try negotiation, and thought that he might succeed in practicing upon one whom he would naturally regard in the light of a mercenary leader.
He had outraged the people by quartering a mercenary army in the town--was unyielding in his purposes and hastened a tragedy that gave a fresh impetus to the embryo revolution.
Barneveld, representing the Arminian or Remonstrant provinces, levied a body of mercenary soldiers in several of the cities.
Really, madam, if I am suspected of any mercenary motives, the liberal settlements which are now ready for your perusal, must immediately remove any such suspicion.
In both, Signorelli gives us a superb representation of the fierce mercenary soldiery of his own day, and the work is full of his characteristic vigour and delight in powerful, strenuous manhood.
We see the advancing host of the Sienese, in front of which the splendid mercenary cavalry has already burst upon the ranks of the Company and broken through them, while on the right the rout is complete.
Why should she be more mercenary than I, who was willing to marry her without a sixpence in her pocket, without a second gown to her back?
It was the worship of the golden calf, exemplified in one of its vilest phases, a mercenary marriage.
These men are much offended that so holy an institution as that of the Lord's Supper should be made subservient to suchmercenary purposes as the getting of an employment.
The deliberate and mercenary way in which the respected 'counsellor' set himself to spy could be shown by fifty letters.
Magan was an informer of the most mercenary type--constantly tendering his services, and withholding information when coin ceased to clink.
The love for slave property was swallowing up every other mercenary possession.
Vigilant philanthropists do exist, I will allow; but it is in such small numbers as to effect little on the whole, and nothing at all when opposed by the zeal of a mercenary opposition.
The defence of the state was committed to mercenary hirelings, who behaved so ill that their affairs were in the utmost disorder.
Thus fell the gallant Agis in the cause of liberty and publick virtue, by the perfidy of his mercenary friends, and the violence of a corrupt and most profligate faction.
Thus whilst they were formidable abroad by their fleets and mercenary armies, they were weak and defenceless at home.
He showed next the folly and danger of confiding the defence of the state to mercenary forces, who had already served them so ill.
Many were the gallant fellows in it who preferred the honorable distinction of allegiance to their King, to the mercenary attainments of self interest.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mercenary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
