Immortal gods, I crave no pelf; I pray for no man but myself. From LearnThat.org. [William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616). Timon of Athens (Act I. Scene II)]
They may talk as they please about what they call pelf. From Wordnik.com. [English Satires] Reference
For pelf, silly pelf, they may brave the rude sea. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference
"Me have elf, work for pelf," the golem translated. From Wordnik.com. [The Source of Magic]
From his long meagre phiz, who'd think he'd the pelf. From Wordnik.com. [Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]] Reference
Shun the idler, though his coffers overflow with pelf. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
I forgot my boasted honor; I had garnered all my pelf. From Wordnik.com. [Stories in Verse] Reference
Rightly served! we serve you rightly, for your hungry love of pelf. From Wordnik.com. [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference
The ruling passion of the age: worship of self and worship of pelf. From Wordnik.com. [Wise or Otherwise] Reference
They're expert at packing off politicians who don't deliver the pelf. From Wordnik.com. [dipstick] Reference
Immortal gods I pray no pelf I speak for no-one but myself and so forth. From Wordnik.com. [Quick crossword No 12,697] Reference
Have ye heaped, through many wearying months, your glittering pile of pelf. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
She had a whopper desk with full controls and other evidences of academic pelf. From Wordnik.com. [Card Trick] Reference
She was so insistent that in the end I shrugged it away-it wasn't my pelf, anyway. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman And The Redskins]
I could make out they did not poach for the sake of pelf but from sheer love of sport. From Wordnik.com. [Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 7, 1914] Reference
Under the first Richard and the third Henry the Templars increased in pelf, power, and pride. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885] Reference
Civilization is when all the mechanisms of the world are dedicated to chanelling pelf to the old. From Wordnik.com. [Financial Crime, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Britain, since they "do not pay" in tangible pelf, in self - aggrandisement, or in dazzling prestige. From Wordnik.com. [West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas] Reference
Have they lived on greed, or a desire for pelf or power, or out of human desire for adulation and praise?. From Wordnik.com. [The Jericho Road] Reference
Murders for old grudges and murders for pelf proceed under any cloak that will best cover for the occasion. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-Six Years in the Army] Reference
The ideal journal is that one which places racial weal above private gain -- which exalts patriotism above pelf. From Wordnik.com. [Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro] Reference
Yes, that had been the United Oil versus Allied Petroleum fracas, and Joe had emerged with little either in glory or pelf. From Wordnik.com. [Mercenary] Reference
The plutocrat has his chuffer, a minion of greed and pelf; the poor man must weep and suffer, and drive his own car himself. From Wordnik.com. [Rippling Rhymes] Reference
The provinces rushed pelf-melt into resolutions and addresses accepting the principles it contained to amend the Constitution. From Wordnik.com. [CanadaWhither?] Reference
As I said, I like Will Ferrell but each one of his movies seems to promise some anarchic pelf that it can never really deliver. From Wordnik.com. [Hot-n-Crusty Arbo Minis!] Reference
If from time to time in my passage I do deliver a few incoherent utterances, these utterances will not be prompted by any desire for pelf. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z] Reference
Their journey for pelf and jewels had been a failure. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure] Reference
That Maurice loved power, pelf, and war, can hardly be denied. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
The feverish desire for place, pelf and power was not upon them. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists] Reference
He declared that these so-called developers came for pelf, not patriotism. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage] Reference
Yet that parsimony sprang from a nobler motive than the mere love of pelf. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
SHAME on SPA for not speaking up, just to grab unfettered power and pelf …. From Wordnik.com. [United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal] Reference
The babus have shamelessly aligned themselves with politicians to hog power and pelf. From Wordnik.com. [The Times of India] Reference
The stakes for it as an institution are too great to let go of its unfettered power and pelf. From Wordnik.com. [The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Frontpage] Reference
Comment posted by Dep on May 7, 2009 at 8: 00 pm (#974749) there ya go pelf come on, one more. From Wordnik.com. [Mets Geek] Reference
The Dutch traders, intent on pelts and pelf, called them the Sinnekaas, meaning the valiant or the beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8] Reference
That he should prefer his scandalous pelf, the dust and dregs of the earth, to the prosperity and grandeur of my family!. From Wordnik.com. [History of John Bull] Reference
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