The pelf and trinkets that she had upon her Were not demanded.
But a day of reckoning, he stated crescendo with no uncertain voice, thoroughly monopolising all the conversation, was in store for mighty England, despite her power of pelf on account of her crimes.
The poor man starves while they are grassing their royal mountain stags or shooting peasants and phartridges in their purblind pomp of pelf and power.
Every motive for professing to believe absurdities and contradictions will be at an end, when neither rule nor honour, nor pelf is to be gained by hypocrisy.
If we seek for love it is not love for pelf or power, but love for man and God.
Have they lived on greed, or a desire for pelf or power, or out of human desire for adulation and praise?
THAT I MAY SOAR Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself; That in my action I may soar as high As I can now discern with this clear eye.
Among these petty and mean minds seeking power or pelf or the repayment of some ancient grudge, Danton had nothing to do!
Sick of the murderous scramble for pelf and power, he withdraws from most political activity, though still able to exert a wide influence.
A model of the human lord and king Who rule below and make their subjects bring Homage and pelf to buy approving nod, While in their train the meaner creatures crawl.
This is a temptation of the evil one, thought the scrupulous Israelite, who would not have touched pelf on his Sabbath for the wealth of the Indies.
The pelf and the jewels will they revive his father who had fallen by his hand?
They were separated from one another by geographic, ethnic, ideological and political barriers which were intensified by tradition, custom, migration, and the competitive struggles among the elite for pelf and power.
The resulting chaos temporarily removed Africa from any meaningful role in the planet-wide contest forpelf and power.
Bravery and Cæsar were synonymous terms, and the little, mean, pismire ambitions of Roman politicians he despised, striding over their corrupt schemes for pelf and office like a winter whirlwind.
He played the rôle of policy before peasant, lord and king, and used the applause and brain of each for his personal advancement, and yet he never sacrificed principle for pelf or bedraggled the skirts of virtue in the gutter of vice.
Must a game be played for the sake of pelf Where a button goes, 'twere an epigram To offer the stamp of the very Guelph.
And these interlopers blending thoughts of fame and pelf are vending Various wares while they're ascending.
With sadness deep a thoughtful mind must scan Religion made to serve the pelfof Man.
He that hath enough and over and is niggard with his pelf Will be hated of his people and left free to praise himself.
I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself.
I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself; That in my striving I may soar as high As I can now discern with this clear eye.
