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Example Sentences for "avaricious "

In July, 1764, there came to Cyprus as governor, a63 necessitous and avaricious man, named Izil Osman Aga.

"I don't take to Philip," said he, smiling, "for it sounds like a moral boy out of the spelling-book, who was so lazy that he fell into a pond, or so fat that he couldn't see out of his eyes, or so avaricious that he locked up his cake till the mice ate it, or so determined to go a bird's-nesting that he got himself eaten by bears who lived handy in the neighborhood.

I could not picture a father treating a dying child as tyrannically and wickedly as I afterwards learned Heathcliff had treated him, to compel this apparent eagerness: his efforts redoubling the more imminently his avaricious and unfeeling plans were threatened with defeat by death.

Give it here, you avaricious old skeleton, give it here!

First the avaricious grandchildren split upon him on account of their objections to his living so unreasonably long, and then they split on one another.

Jordan, who's interviewed, comes across as very smart, rather conservative, and much less avaricious than you might expect.

Its seemingly harmless plot: An avaricious toy manufacturer places vivifying microchips into action figures.

And it is this arm, this right arm, that the avaricious barons of tobacco, who sell death and call it commerce, think they can twist, think they can break, think they can make reach out to them, open-palmed.

For an avaricious man often is glad to gorge himself with food and drink at another man's expense.

For though an avaricious man should, for the sake of avoiding death, cast his riches into the sea, he will none the less remain avaricious; so, also, if a lustful man is downcast, because he cannot follow his bent, he does not, on the ground of abstention, cease to be lustful.

For though men be ignorant, yet are they men, and in cases of necessity could afford us human aid, the most excellent of all things: therefore it is often necessary to accept favours from them, and consequently to repay such favours in kind; we must, therefore, exercise caution in declining favours, lest we should have the appearance of despising those who bestow them, or of being, from avaricious motives, unwilling to requite them, and so give ground for offence by the very fact of striving to avoid it.



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