But by this limitation the Commons were too angry and too rapacious to be bound.
A genus of rapacious birds; one of the Accipitres or Raptores.
Of a different tincture from the animal itself; Ð said of the eyes of a rapacious animal.
Why will he permit the cunning and rapacious spiders, which in the very sanctuary of ethics and religion are laboriously weaving webs from their own bowels, to catch him with their wretched sophistries?
South American eagle, larger than the golden eagle, and of great strength and rapacity: a rapacious person.
But as the Indian princes, in general, are as unwisely tenacious of their treasure as they are rapacious in getting it, the more money he amassed, the more he felt the effects of poverty.
And so the power of state must not be abolished until all the bad, rapacious men in the world are destroyed.
These brokers, like rapacious bats, hover around the emigrant and before his purse is opened for the fourth time, the trick is done.
While those miserable degraded persons thus scantily subsist, all the produce of their unwearied toil, is taken away to satiate their rapacious master.
It is because the people of Virginia are commonly milder than those of the Sugar Colonies, which consist chiefly of rapacious men, eager to amass fortunes, as soon as possible, and return to Europe.
Caractacus was the first who seemed willing, by a vigorous effort, to rescue his country and repel its insulting and rapacious conquerors.
The rapacious Czarina will be furious when she hears of them.
It is I who have restored the balance of power, by conquering Austria's antipathy to France, by isolating haughty England, and hunting all Europe against rapacious Russia.
These were replied to by the advocates of every other German state, who proved conclusively that Austria wasrapacious and unscrupulous, and had not a shadow of right to the Bavarian succession.
You, who had been represented to me as the most rapacious of diplomatists, you had prejudiced all Europe against me, so that for seven long years my only allies were my rights and my good sword.
Oh, your majesty, have mercy upon your subjects, and force the rapacious emperor to forego his unjust claims, and obey your imperial commands!
Until they can stand before the world in the serried ranks of a national unanimity, they must expect to be assailed by their rapacious neighbors.
The carnage was most horrible; and the property of this persecuted people was indiscriminately plundered by their rapacious murderers.
This country then remained for some time subject to the Caliphs of Bagdad, and was governed by their lieutenants, a set of cruel, arbitrary, and rapacious men.
While one is absent from home in search of food for their rapacious appetites, the other is guarding the nest and its precious charges with the most jealous care.
Protection against rapacious birds is also secured, which would not be gained if the bright plumage of the female were exposed in an open nest.
They are here more secure from the depredations of rapacious birds, the latter having a decided aversion to man, their inveterate and merciless foe.
A cabman could not have made the complaint with a more finished accent of rapacious disgust.
Men are especially astonished at England's retrocession of Martinique without a single stipulation for the colonists there, who are at the mercy of a government as rapacious as it is fickle.
On all essential topics the British Government was in full accord with the views of the Czar, and Pitt insisted on the need of a system of international law which should guarantee the Continent against further rapacious acts.
And never, surely, since the young Maria Theresa appealed in person to the Hungarian magnates to defend her against rapacious neighbours, had any monarch spoken so straight to the hearts of his lieges.
Men will, and do, daily corrupt themselves in the rapacious pursuit of gain, but comparatively few are in the market to be bought and sold by others.
The allies, after the fashion of Peace Congresses, frittered away precious time in more and more rapacious disputes; the Bourbons returned to France.
These Normans, as they grew powerful, discovered themselves such rapacious and vigorous robbers that they forced the Eastern Emperor and the Pope into a feeble and ineffective alliance against them (1053).
The social diseases which emasculated men of weaker fiber, he turned to the account of his rapacious appetites.
Litigation would become the order of the day, and a rapacious class would spring into existence where lawyers and barristers are now totally unknown.
To revive the genius of Phidias and Lysippus surpassed indeed the power of a Roman emperor; but the immortal productions which they had bequeathed to posterity were exposed without defense to the rapacious vanity of a despot.
The acquisition of riches served only to stimulate the avarice of the rapacious Barbarians, who proceeded by threats, by blows, and by tortures, to force from their prisoners the confession of hidden treasure.
Do you not think that a democratic republic, in which every citizen is striving to get all he can for his vote at the expense of the State, necessarily becomes the most rapacious and corrupt form of government?
It was John Russell and the Whigs who wererapacious for office--much more than the Peelites.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rapacious" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
