...Captain Blood had shrewdly played upon the cupidity that was the paramount inspiration of those adventurers... 
Rafael Sabatini 「Captain Blood」
... The eager expectation of the throng, amidst all the tediously slow preparations, was rather that of cupidity than curiosity...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「Ten Years Later」
...Finally, the self-imposed hardships of the down march break men's spirits for further attempts, and their cupidity cannot neutralize their natural indolence thus reinforced...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2」
...And that these human beings are soill-treated is due absolutely to the cupidity of one man, and to theapathy of the rest of the world...
Richard Harding Davis 「The Congo and Coasts of Africa」
...Africa is bled from all pores by her own children,seconded by the cupidity of strangers...
James Richardson 「Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2」
...For once cupidity overcame Muller's fear of thesharp-witted cynical soldier...
John Charles Beecham 「The Argus Pheasant」
...The precious egg must not for a single instant remain exposed to the cupidity of marauders...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Mason-bees」
...If I embraced a profession so directly opposed to my sentiments, it was not through cupidity...
Jean Meslier Anna Knoop 「Superstition In All Ages (1732)」
...One end of the table is covered with a pile of gold, for the purpose of exciting the cupidity of the courtiers and of the people by whom the sultan is surrounded...
Jean Meslier Anna Knoop 「Superstition In All Ages (1732)」
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