mammon-ridden

Updated: July 17, 2025

Whether he had reproached him with his treachery to me or not, I know not; but it is certain that both parted full of Wrath and High Disdain, and each swearing to be the Ruin of the other. But Gold had, as it has always in a Mammon-ridden world, the longest, strongest pull.

George Augustus Sala - The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 : Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave : among the moors...