avarice

• The great passions are awake in them--avarice, lust, hate, love, god-like pity, supreme courage, base fear. —  My Contemporaries In Fiction
• Her brother had become rich beyond the dreams of avarice, and he talked of resignation to the will of God Then you will answer the letter at once?" —  The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn
• And thus it happeneth by him that intendeth more to get money than victory, that his avarice is ofttimes cause of his confusion Then let every knight take heed to be liberal, in such wise that he ween not nor suppose that his scarcity be to him a great winning or gain. —  The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I
• My avarice was hereby excited, and thus another passion equally powerful, and equally inciting to evil deeds, was added to the hate which I already had imbibed for your father. —  The Little Savage
• Let's consider That we destroy oppression--avarice A people nursed up equally with vices And loathsome lusts, which nature most abhors And such as, without shame, she cannot suffer Jaf. —  Venice Preserved A Tragedy in Five Acts

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