...The Arabs, however, have the knack of spoiling markets by their rapacity and cruelty...
Henry M. Stanley 「How I Found Livingstone」
... It is the rapacity of the chiefs of the various tribes that renders African exploration so difficult...
Samuel White Baker 「In the Heart of Africa」
...Many of them have received advances of dollars by thousands, but the European merchant has generally suffered from his credulity or rapacity...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1」
...There I see the tenderest ties ruthlessly broken, to gratify the lust, caprice, and rapacity of the buyers and sellers of men...
Frederick Douglass 「My Bondage and My Freedom」
...The centre of the chapel looks curiously blank, being left so by thethoroughness with which all trace of Becket’s shrine was removed by thereforming zeal and insatiable rapacity of Henry VIII...
Hartley Withers 「The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.].」
...Prester Kleig, lookingat them now, could see them puttingout to sea, loaded with brave-visagedmen, volunteering to go to suredestruction to feed the rapacity ofMoyen's hordes...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930」
...' He hastened to explain, however, thathe 'did not liken them to eagles as to their rapacity, but as tosharpsightedness...
Richard A. Proctor 「Myths and Marvels of Astronomy」
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