There seems to be no satisfying his greed.. Chapter 15 BelgiumThe Rag Doll of Europe

Instead of forming a sound middle class to check the excesses of both parties, they were swayed chiefly by sordid motives, and backed up the men who for the time seemed most willing or able to gratify their greed.

The poet declares expressly that a rich man will not need his Ars Amandi, but that it is written for the poor, who may be able to overcome the greed of the hetairai by tickling their vanity.

We become prey to invasion if we excite the greed of foreign nation, by dealing with them under a feeling dependence on them.

In the North and South, in the East and West In vain do the natives plead; By the Congo's waves are countless graves, Where the Paleface gluts his greed; And China's fate looms dark and grim, As its people note the means That Christians take, when gold's at stake, From the Rand to the Philippines.

With one world Aristarchus fed my greed; This finished, others Metrodorus gave; Yet, stirred by restless yearning, still I crave: The more I know, the more to learn I need.

He even cut away the ambitious greed of office seekers and put a regard for reputation in its place.

This regimentation dulled imagination at the same time that it deified greed, with "gimme, gimme;" "more, more;" as its watch words.

But I'll disappoint his greed.

The Bulgarians denounced the Servians as perfidious and faithless and the Servians responded by excoriating the colossal greed and intolerance of the Bulgarians.

Thus becoming commercialized, these colonists experienced a greed which, disregarding the consequences of the future, urged the importation of all classes of slaves to meet the demand for cheap labor.

Inger was full of a desperate sweetness towards him, and the great heavy fellow, lumbering carrier of burdens, felt a greed and an endless desire for her in himself.

God has not heaped up our mountains with such grandeur, flooded our rivers with such majesty, crowned our valleys with such fertility, enriched our mines with such wealth, that they should only minister to grasping greed and sensuous enjoyment.

The law of the Fenian of the days of Marcus Aurelius was the law of the Fenian in the reign of Victoriato give allmind, body, and strength of purposeto the defense of his country, "to speak truth and harbor no greed in his heart.

None knew better how to hide away his greed.

"Won't you have some of my supper?" "Don't you want it?" returned the boy, to justify his greed.

And here, sprinkled through the vast audience of that theatre, with as keen a greed for its play as any, were all the various non-combatants with whom we are here concerned, though not easily to be singled out, such mere units were they of the impassioned multitude every mere unit of which, to loved and loving ones, counted for more than we can tell.

Still others manifested only greed.

The very fact that they united into companies for the purpose of undertaking these contracts shows that they were aware of the risk involved, and wished as far as possible to neutralise it; it did not mean greed for money, but rather anxiety not to lose the capital invested.

Napoleon lacked a chemical trace of the religious instinct, his sympathy was nil, and his conquests were made possible only because he was blind to the suffering and misery his greed for glory and dominion generated.

The Slave of God she froze her face, The Slave of God she paid no heed, And thund'ring down high Heaven's space Loud angels mocked the sailor's greed.

But if he be not Thakbar but some greedy man who demands more gold than we would give to Thakbar? Chamberlain: Why, then we must give him even what he demands, and God will punish his greed.

It was ravaging greed, nothing less.

And all this was to sate the greed of greedy men who hide behind the veil of vengeance!

I may not heed; Too swift the hours; too sweet, too brief the day: Only one life, one spring, one perfect May I crush each moment, with its sweets to stay Life's joyous greed!