His encounter with the venal elector who had been nominated to a Chelsea appointment is well known, though an account of it would hurt the delicacy of these somewhat prudish pages.
Full oft the nattering marble bids renown With blazon'd trophies deck the spotted name; And oft, too oft, the venal Muses crown The slaves of vice with never-dying fame.
Wait till the thing comes up," he said to his friends, in a great central music-hall conference in which thousands participated, and when the matter of ways and means to defeat the venal aldermen was being discussed.
In Philadelphia, when he wanted public-franchise control, he sought privily and by chicane to arrange his affairs with a venal city treasurer.
The subservient and venal councilmen whom he now controlled might be replaced by men who, if no more honest, would be more loyal to the enemy, thus blocking the extension of his franchises.
The execution of the laws was venal and arbitrary.
Its worst result was not poor scholars, but insincere and venal men.
There are honest and unscrupulous Ministers of State, upright and venal deputies, enthusiastic and cautious candidates for power, together with social theoreticians of various schools.
My obedience to you, my husband and my ruler, shall be that of a slave, but I can never stoop to sue for the favor, or obey the orders of a venal servant, the most unmanly of his kind!
Have I ever done, or have I any intention of ever doing anything to win the love of these venal courtiers?
But the venal companions had never stayed long, either they disliked Miss Starke, or Miss Starke disliked them.
If anything, materialism - the venal form of "capitalism" that erupted in the post communist planet - only exacerbated the moral and ethical degeneracy of everyone involved.
Mostly it doesn't -and the Flying Dutchman resumes his wanderings looking for more venal gulosity and less legal probity.
Political uncertainty under communism was replaced by economic uncertainty under the insidious and venal form of capitalism that replaced it.
The Turks brought with them their venal type of devastation, not only economic, not only physical, not only in human lives - but also cultural.
All things, then, becamevenal in England; and churches and abbeys were no longer secretly, but even publicly exposed to sale.
Not unsentimental either--for my part I could never care for mere coarse, commonplace, venal wretches.
With a thrill of horror he thought in his own soul that the great leader might suspect him for an hour of being the venal Judas of the little sect.
In former ages slavery has been advocated by the venal and slavish-minded, whilst the independent and the warm-hearted were struggling without hope to save the liberties of mankind.
This seat, according to the Custom of our venal country, was to be bought, and fifteen hundred pounds were mentioned as the price of the purchase.
The few Elections already over have been conducted (thanks to the Grenvillian Act[259]) with a sobriety, a chastity and a parsimony unexampled in this venal country.
There was a mixture of ingratitude in his conduct that characterized the venal baseness of the times.
The same venal court was paid by all classes to his family.
In fact, the several members of the council had been among the most venal "beneficiaries" of the scheme, and had interests at stake which they were anxious to secure.
On the contrary, being now considered perfectly established in place and power, he became more than ever the object of venal adoration.
What a contrast, in a short time, to the venal incense that was offered up to him!
Thus he had justly castigated the Times and othervenal newspapers; but in so doing had by his too general statements drawn the fire of every other journal in town.
Had she lived to be Queen of England she would have found a thousandvenal pens to give her every virtue under heaven.
By such infamous arts," added Diocletian, "the best and wisest princes are sold to the venal corruption of their courtiers.
It still remains an authentic monument to contradict and confound those venal orators, who were too well satisfied with their own situation to discover either vice or misery under the government of a generous sovereign.
When Maximian had reluctantly abdicated the empire, the venal orators of the times applauded his philosophic moderation.
But his accusers are those venal writers who adored the fortune of Severus, and trampled on the ashes of an unsuccessful rival.
Whilst the motion of the world (such was the language of their venal orators) was maintained by the all-seeing wisdom of Jupiter, the invincible arm of Hercules purged the earth from monsters and tyrants.
Twice, o'er his head ere thirty suns had roll'd, With shameless hand his freedom had he sold, And twice in battle drawn his venal sword Against a generous and forgiving lord.
A council of venal bishops assembled at Compiegne, and annulled his lawful marriage.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "venal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
