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  • Covetous jews who have taken all our money and horded it for themselves, hidden all the cash in some secret “jew cave” that they built, probably in the early 60s...

    "You might be smart enough to play chez Althouse, but you have got to try much harder. Get out of the boys' club..." Ann Althouse 2009

  • It was a wise Remark of him that said, A Poor Man wants Many things, but the Covetous Man wants All things; for a covetous

    A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies 2008

  • Covetous: marked by inordinate desire for wealth or possessions.

    Think Progress » Help Raise the Minimum Wage 2006

  • All this we risque, for a little Shining Earth, or, what is less worthy, a little empty Fame; the one being the Aim of the Covetous, the other of the

    A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies 2008

  • Covetous men, amongst others, are most mad, [756] they have all the symptoms of melancholy, fear, sadness, suspicion, &c., as shall be proved in its proper place,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Covetous of honour,339 beyond all controversy, must he be, who could endure so many toils and pains to hear his name proclaimed340 victor in the

    Symposium 2007

  • Shag: [Wikipedia] [Official] [Tributes and fan pages: The Covetous Neighbor] [Pop Culture Search]

    V.I.P. at PCL Headquarters mrdantefontana 2006

  • Covetous indeed would they be, who deserved neither, yet expected both!

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • Covetous and impatient might perhaps be the truer epithets,” said Mr. Prendergast, with grim sarcasm.

    Castle Richmond 2004

  • Covetous governors are continually succeeding one another, they are ever eager of enjoying the advantages of their position; their thirst for plunder is so much the more intense, as they are not allowed time to satisfy it, so they prey on the people.

    Travels in Morocco 2003

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