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The avarice of Elwes, the insane desire of Sir Egerton Brydges for a barony to which he had no more right than to the crown of Spain, the malevolence which long meditation on imaginary wrongs generated in the gloomy mind of Bellingham, are instances. The feeling which animated Clarkson and other virtuous men against the slave-trade and slavery, is an instance of a more honourable kind.
In spite of her sordid avarice in some matters, the old woman continued bleeding herself for her son, and even robbed the house, promptly thrusting out her claws and setting her teeth ready to bite whenever she was caught in the act, and had to defend some twenty-franc piece or other, which she had been on the point of sending away.
He was assured that the measure could be accomplished "by freely bestowing marquisates, baronies, and peerages, in order to content the avarice and ambition of many persons, without at the same time dissipating the greatness from which all these members depended.
The Sulpitian, Abbe Belmont, says that the avarice of the merchants was the cause of the war; that they and La Barre wished to prevent the Iroquois from interrupting trade; and that La Barre aimed at an indemnity for the sixteen hundred livres in merchandise which the Senecas had taken from his canoes early in the year. Belmont adds that he wanted to bring them to terms without fighting.
In this whirl of avarice, egotism, and pushfulness, Helmsley had lived nearly all his life, always conscious of, and longing for, something better something truer and more productive of peace and lasting good. Almost everything he had touched had turned to money, while nothing he had ever gained had turned to love.
I will acknowledge that the sight of the large, coarse, parchment map of the Mooseridge Patent, as the new acquisition was called, from the circumstance of the surveyors having shot a moose on a particular ridge of land in its centre, excited certain feelings of avarice within my mind.
Her Recovery. We Move to Meudon. Character of the Duchesse de Berry. The Mississippi Scheme. Law Offers Me Shares. Compensation for Blaye. The Rue Quincampoix. Excitement of the Public. Increased Popularity of the Scheme. Conniving of Law. Plot against His Life Disagreement with Argenson. Their Quarrel. Avarice of the Prince de Conti. His Audacity. Anger of the Regent.
And I will whisper to you that not long since I loved a terrible fellow who made me very unhappy; you will reprove me and close my mouth, and we will agree never to speak of such things." When Brigitte spoke thus I experienced a feeling that resembled avarice; I caught her in my arms and cried: "Oh, God! I know not whether it is with joy or with fear that I tremble.
"Father, have my behests been fulfilled? hath Hugoline, my treasurer, dispensed the gifts that I spoke of?" "Verily yes; vault, coffer, and garde-robe stall and meuse.-are well nigh drained," answered the monk, with a sour look at the Norman, whose native avarice gleamed in his dark eyes as he heard the answer. "Thy train go not hence empty-handed," said Edward fondly.
He wronged his uncle, however, in supposing that this want of attention to his probable necessities was owing to avarice.
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