"He had never bartered promotion in the army for bribes, nor peculated in the supplies of provisions for the army." l.v. c. xxxiv. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3] Reference
“He had never bartered promotion in the army for bribes, nor peculated in the supplies of provisions for the army.” l.v. c.xxxiv. —. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
Not that he had peculated on the public treasury; his good sense and pride forbade a resort to this manuvre of weak minds; but by resorting to loans and the costly operations of the bank, to provide the funds of war, and being still connected with the house to which he addressed himself for much the greater part of his negotiations. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2] Reference
Helpless beyond measure in all the duties of practical statesmanship, its members or their dependants have given proof of remarkable energy in the single department of peculation; and there, not content with the slow methods of the old-fashioned defaulter, who helped himself only to what there was, they have contrived to steal what there was going to be, and have peculated in advance by a kind of official post-obit. From Wordnik.com. [The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays] Reference
Back to the mountains, and the lonely convent on the heights -- to the handful of monks left in the old sanctuary, handing on the past, waiting for the future, heirs of a society which would destroy and outlive the New Italy, as it had destroyed and outlived the Old Rome, -- offering the daily sacrifice amid the murmur and solitude of the woods, -- confident, peaceful, unstained; while the new men in the valleys below peculated and bribed, swarmed and sweated, in the mire of a profitless and purposeless corruption. From Wordnik.com. [Eleanor] Reference
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