In his appetite for power, is not the Austrian the most rapacious of all the princes of the earth?" "More so, think you, worthy Signore, than the Castilian?

To me chivalry means all that is narrow, cruel, and rapacious in man.

Without reverting to the events of August and September, 1792, presided by the founders of liberty, and executed by their too apt sectaries, it is notorious that the legions of Paris, sent to chastise the unenlightened Vendeans, were the most cruel and rapacious banditti that ever were let loose to afflict the world.

The reporters are preying vultures, rapacious for sensation, and have small respect for anyone.

"In Greece and the Levant they are more rapacious than in Naples, and the Customs officers always want squaring, otherwise they are for ever rummaging and discovering mares' nests.