...What those covetous men could not get from our fathers for old buttons, they took by force... 
Captain Frederick Marryat 「The Mission; or Scenes in Africa」
...Viçvâmitras is covetous of her;he demands her from Vasishṭas, and offers a hundredcows for her, the exact price which, in the Harivaṅças,he receives from Triçañkus for his own son...
Angelo de Gubernatis 「Zoological Mythology, Volume I (of 2)」
...These ideas doubtless helped to make business degrading; traders were doubtless sordid and covetous and deceitful...
Sidney L. Gulick 「Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic」
...But alas! their covetous minds, one way in enlarging their revenues, and carnal intent another, appeared herein too, too much...
Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed 「Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)」
...Thus the covetous disposition of these people drew us at length (notwithstanding all my gifts and endeavours to be on friendly terms) into a state of warfare...
Thomas Mitchell 「Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Vol 1 (of 2)」
...They were so covetous that the progress of the carts was impeded for some time by the care necessary on the part of the drivers to prevent these people from stealing...
Thomas Mitchell 「Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Vol 1 (of 2)」
...There was another old man who was more intelligent and less covetous than the rest...
Thomas Mitchell 「Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Vol 1 (of 2)」
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