This isn't "rapacity" - which implies seizure of property. From Wordnik.com. [Mother Jones drills me a new one] Reference
It's not true, but I do believe most Americans blame this "rapacity" for the high gas prices. From Wordnik.com. ["The GOP has persuaded the public of the wisdom of its fetish for populating the U.S. coastline with oil rigs."] Reference
It was near midnight before their rapacity was satisfied. From Wordnik.com. [Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days] Reference
Greek people, driven at length into fury by the rapacity of the hated. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference
On one was a satire on the hypocritical rapacity of perfidious Albion. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference
Justly or unjustly, in olden times the Deal boatmen were accused of rapacity. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
His rapacity disgusted even an age in which every one could be bought and sold. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
But, in fact, the act of injustice and rapacity, so repugnant to the spirit of the. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
One of these piratical gentry suffered before our eyes a fate worthy of his rapacity. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
His selfishness was unbounded, his rapacity insatiable; his brutality seems incredible. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
Such was the rapacity of the plunderers, that they took even Lady Nairn's watch and clothes. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
Indeed, Hobbes's view of early society as a state of war and rapacity is much truer to fact than Rousseau's. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference
Cornwall, suffered far a long time from the fraud and rapacity of those who were supposed to be its custodians. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference
His rapacity, indeed, is carried to such an excess as to astonish a European, and is evinced in a thousand mean ways. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
Wolfish rapacity, leonine ferocity, leopardish treachery, gave way before the meekness and mildness of the calf or kid. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference
He left behind him a character of reckless rapacity, and of a determined will, notwithstanding some generous and humane actions. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
The depressing thing is that rapacity and oppression become glorified, when the cloak of patriotism is thrown over their shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
The above passage from Bunyan is altogether in the manner of Luther when describing the rapacity and avarice of Rome. hath removed them. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
The rapacity of all these classes is proverbial, and an instance may be given of the conduct of the Pandas or temple-priests of Benares. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
In order to protect your interests from the proven rapacity of the administration here, Earth has revoked the independent charter of Marsport. From Wordnik.com. [Police Your Planet] Reference
Have we not, all of us, thundered against the rapacity of the capitalists who are obstinately bent on producing more than can possibly be consumed!. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of Bread] Reference
Both monarchs were inspired with the same hatred of the emperor, and each had equal reason to complain of the insatiable rapacity of the Roman court. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
Loeb also describes the CARD Act, which restricts some bank rapacity toward credit card holders, as "a well-intentioned government program gone awry.". From Wordnik.com. [Richard (RJ) Eskow: The Robespierre of the Hedge-Fund Revolution] Reference
France, the victim of persecutors, who, under the name of saints, exhibited a cruelty and rapacity that would have disgraced the reputation of a Philip or an Alva!. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
Misled by artful demagogues -- excited by charges of Northern rapacity, perfidy, outrage, and venom, to which no contradiction in their hearing is permitted -- the. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
At times he would severely rebuke the avarice and rapacity of his courtiers, who would loudly applaud him with their mouths and belie his exhortations by their works. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
We can scarcely appreciate the abhorrence of a people, so conscientious as this, to take an oath of fidelity to a race that had only been known to them by its rapacity. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
They had heard of the white man; refugees from the lower lands had spread reports of his rapacity and cruelty, and of the scorn with which he treated the poor brown man. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
Theatre will soon be ready, when there should be no further cause for complaint about the rapacity of some of the larger carnivora owned by certain ladies of the chorus. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 22, 1914] Reference
"But, sir," said Suleiman to the Caliph, "I will take no further coin from you, for the rapacity of the Governor is like a bottomless pit that would swallow all that you have.". From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Caliph] Reference
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