There is no doubt that the real destroyer of the liberties of any people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and largess. From LearnThat.org. [Plutarch (c.46-c.120)]
Be sure to call it "largess" if he scatters it among them. From Wordnik.com. [How to Write a Novel for the Masses] Reference
It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasure. From Wordnik.com. [Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » On Class Warfare and Income Taxes, Part 1] Reference
But he who has naught can dispense the world in largess; and I, who had naught, gave Kim captaincy of the palace guards. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 15] Reference
This blog - and a host of other St. Blog's parishioners - are the recipients of largess from a semi-anonymous benefactress. From Wordnik.com. [02/01/2003 - 03/01/2003] Reference
Some of this largess is given as strings attached grants to universities; primarily to the U of Texas, U of Tulsa, and Stanford. From Wordnik.com. [Oil] Reference
I am very pro-business in usual circumstances, but this kind of largess with this many people is madness. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Free in dispensing gratuities, he gives to the poor and the priests -- finding this last kind of largess a good speculation. From Wordnik.com. [The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea] Reference
"largess," every Bedouin had placed before him a quart of Heidsieck. From Wordnik.com. [Night Bombing with the Bedouins] Reference
But that is just the beginning of Maryland's largess. From Wordnik.com. [Modell Sacks Maryland] Reference
Erastus Snow distributed largess of clothing and food. From Wordnik.com. [Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert] Reference
Shouldn't they be sharing this largess with employees?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 9, 2005] Reference
The first largess of this kind was made by Julius Caesar. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Wars, Books III and IV (of 8) The Vandalic War] Reference
A crooked congressman's lavish, largess is auctioned off. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 23, 2006] Reference
Now we were going to test her reported largess for ourselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864] Reference
There is more largess in one of book buyer Lucia Silva's choices. From Wordnik.com. [Booksellers' Picks: 15 Soaring Summer Reads] Reference
Without taxpayer largess, these hedge fund honchos would be flat broke. From Wordnik.com. [Les Leopold: Poverty Rises as Wall Street Billionaires Whine] Reference
The big media companiesare second only to big pharma incampaign largess. From Wordnik.com. [John Dougherty: The Clock Is Running Out on Net Neutrality] Reference
Not much art is required, I believe, to distribute largess of this kind. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
In all your magnificence to-night, Mr. Mayor, I have seen no such largess. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z] Reference
The big media companies are second only to big pharma in campaign largess. From Wordnik.com. [John Dougherty: The Clock Is Running Out on Net Neutrality] Reference
In the morning he bestowed an honorary dress and handsome largess upon him. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2] Reference
The big media companiesÂare second only to Big Pharma inÂcampaign largess. From Wordnik.com. [John Dougherty: The Clock Is Running Out on Net Neutrality] Reference
The Big Banks are back to making money thanks to the largess of the taxpayers. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Worth: A Small Business Dilemma: Survival] Reference
Customers of Investec, the bank and asset manager, may appreciate such largess. From Wordnik.com. [HSBC Has Gone on the Civets Trail] Reference
Spring was here and cast its largess at her feet, -- fate held back her eager hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
I know of one case at least where John bestowed largess upon a deserving institution. From Wordnik.com. [From a Terrace in Prague] Reference
I glanced defiance at Berkley, my creditor, as I showered largess on these humble poets. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873] Reference
Now, thanks to our largess, the bankers are back to making record profits and bonuses again. From Wordnik.com. [Les Leopold: Why the Big Lie About the Job Crisis?] Reference
The forge flung a largess of heat and light, as red as holly, through the gloom of the place. From Wordnik.com. [Bruvver Jim's Baby] Reference
These boys I partially paid beforehand, and promised more liberal largess if they did their duty. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873] Reference
They served for the largess, which men found there richly, whereby Siegmund's whole land was decked with praise. From Wordnik.com. [The Nibelungenlied] Reference
This zone is as remote from the rest of the city as it is from the 18 provinces that depend on Baghdad's largess. From Wordnik.com. [Will Iraq Fall Victim to the Oil Curse?] Reference
It shouldn't be that because there is a congressional district that has more political muscle that they get more largess. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 8, 2009] Reference
In some cases, American largess helped pave the way with promises of new roads to carry the sick and new mothers to clinics. From Wordnik.com. [Philip Smucker: WikiLeaks Story Exposes Bad Intel From the Field and on Bin Laden] Reference
Economists Nouriel Roubini and Stephen Mihm estimate that Goldman Sachs alone got60 billion in direct and indirect taxpayer largess. From Wordnik.com. [Les Leopold: Five Washington Excuses for Ignoring the Jobs Crisis] Reference
But their wealth -- and largess -- had a dark side, according to a fraud suit filed Thursday by the Securities and Exchange Commission. From Wordnik.com. [Wyly brothers built an empire side-by-side] Reference
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