... 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」
...“Perhaps not, except that our caravan may excite his cupidity, and he may be induced to delay us to obtain possession of its contents...
Captain Frederick Marryat 「The Mission; or Scenes in Africa」
...Sometimes they offer bait to cupidity...
P. J. Proudhon 「What is Property?」
...Possession is the sovereign remedy for cupidity, a remedy which would have been the less perilous to Sparta because fortunes there were almost equal, and conditions were nearly alike...
P. J. Proudhon 「What is Property?」
... revolting cupidity...
Honoré Bourguignon 「On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment」
...It marked thelimits of the divine dwelling, and served, when needful, to resist theattacks of enemies whose cupidity might be excited by the accumulatedriches of the sanctuary...
Gaston Camille Charles Maspero 「Manual Of Egyptian Archaeology And Guide To The Study Of Antiquities In Egypt」
...But now they excited the cupidity of the foreign invaders ofEgypt, and were carried away to distant lands as trophies of theirvictories...
Hugh Macmillan 「Roman Mosaics」
... favoured cupidity...
Paul Henri Thiery (Baron D'Holbach) Samuel Wilkinson 「The System of Nature, Volume 2」
...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)」
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