| 单词 | rapacity |
| 例句 | With Great-Bridge fallen, nothing stood between their town and the rapacity of the enemy. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z For total greed, rapacity, heartlessness, and irresponsibility there is nothing to match a nation. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Their rapacity for mastery had been so great that all were brought to destruction equally. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The scenario is based on a real-life self-help guide that urges women to combat male rapacity with equally cynical manipulation of access to "the cookie". Race and the romcom: is Think Like a Man realistic or racist? 2012-06-25T09:44:31Z He deals with his partners’ rapacity by slamming doors and petulantly saying his “No” is final, a tactic that fails both with them and with Megan. “Mad Men’s” indecent proposal 2012-05-28T12:31:00Z Russian society, he wrote, was ruled by "arbitrariness, hypocrisy, lying, rapacity, treachery and vacuity". Paul Foote obituary 2011-04-05T17:45:40Z In the first, we find capitalism unbound, in all its rapacity. To appreciate the ‘Masterworks’ of Paul Thomas Anderson, here are 5 essential movies of his to watch 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z Despite her dark wardrobe and wolflike rapacity on stage, she has a softness in person. Diamanda Galás, Still Wild and Primal, Returns to the New York Stage 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Not for the first time, I was dumbstruck at the brilliance and originality of this master craftsman of the mind, his transparent rapacity of thought, his insatiable intellectual curiosity. John Wood obituary 2011-08-10T14:21:55Z "We knew about the man's hunger; his fervor; his appetite. There was nothing secret about this voracious rapacity; like a gluttonous ogre out of the Brothers Grimm." ‘Everybody F--king Knew.’ Screenwriter Scott Rosenberg Unleashes on Harvey Weinstein 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z The English did not endear themselves to others by combining rapacity with seeming high-mindedness. A History of the British Empire at Its Peak 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z If the investment sector needed a patron saint of killer rapacity, as clawed its way to record profits and stranglehold power in the middle years of the last decade, Gekko was it. Oliver Stone's New Wall Street: Greed Is God 2010-09-23T08:25:00Z Cheaply built, it is vulnerable to the country's climate and the rapacity of developers. The Melnikov house and the battle for the Soviet era's artistic soul 2011-01-16T00:05:37Z These days gap-toothed smiles are regarded not just as a mark of fortune or, as they have been since Chaucer’s day, a sign of sexual rapacity, but also as a positively enviable fashion calling card. Gap-Toothed Smile, the New Fashionable Calling Card 2012-02-15T22:29:11Z At MOMA, black eggshells disfigure a copy of Le Soir reporting on the Congo; the etiolated potted palms at the entrance to the exhibition recall Belgium’s rapacity in central Africa. Marcel Broodthaers’s Brussels, and Mine 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z They also testify to a particular seam of human history, one of resource extraction, rapacity and systematic abuse. Grief and Geology Both Take Time in ‘The Book of Unconformities’ 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z It’s merely the scatological kicker to a much larger story, one about the rapacity of an industry dedicated to exploiting our most economically vulnerable citizens. John Oliver won’t be your therapist: How he torpedoed the reassuring tropes of fake news 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Generally a fleet, light mover, she also showed a surprising gift for rapacity and coldness as the Siren in one “Prodigal” performance. Dance Review: Suzanne Farrell Ballet Stages Balanchine in Washington 2012-11-12T23:09:41Z Nor has there ever been a time when the link between our rapacity and our present misery has felt as clear. Why the Chimera Is the Monster for Our Uncertain Age 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z But we had no illusion that Ricca, et al., would actually restrain their rapacity. Editorial Roundup: New England 2020-12-25T05:00:00Z In the speech, Barr described a political philosophy driven by the need to counter an “individual rapacity” in humans that quickly produces “licentiousness” and the destruction of “healthy community life” if not restrained. 'His abuses have escalated': Barr's kinship with Trump fuels election fears 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z Zuckerberg’s motto, “Move fast and break things”, was generally treated as a sign of youthful insouciance, not of galling rapacity. Big Swinging Brains and fashy trolls: how the world fell into a clickbait death spiral 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z The novel is a nightmare of profit-seeking rapacity: once the blood business starts to fail, because so many are dead, the village bloodhead diversifies into selling caskets. Yan Lianke’s Forbidden Satires of China 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z It is the culmination of a steady drumbeat through the book about pollution, warming seas and human rapacity. A British travel writer evokes the magic of the Baltic Sea 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z When I started out, Tasmania was still a metaphor for everything Australians hated about themselves – their convict past, environmental rapacity, murderous racism and general insignificance. Richard Flanagan: ‘Fiction is not a lie, but a truth, a necessary truth’ 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z By 1855, as the Kansas crisis deepened, Douglass saw the slave power as an all-encompassing national plague with “instinctive rapacity,” with a “natural craving after human flesh and blood.” 'The civil war lies on us like a sleeping dragon': America's deadly divide - and why it has returned 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z The rapacity of China’s ivory merchants and the poaching industry they supported were giving the country a bad name. China and the Closing of the Ivory Trade 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z Many modern apologists for British colonial rule in India no longer contest the basic facts of imperial exploitation and plunder, rapacity and loot, which are too deeply documented to be challengeable. 'But what about the railways ...?' The myth of Britain's gifts to India 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z Many consumers prefer to see only the positive side of pop: they cherish it as a culturally and spiritually liberating influence, somehow free of the rapacity of capitalism even as it overwhelms the marketplace. When Music Is Violence 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z Maybe greed, rapacity and ruthlessness constitute a "philosophy" for some people. Nyquist’s Owner Has a Philosophy: Stay Grounded 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z Thanks to British rapacity, a mile of Indian railways cost double that of a mile in Canada and Australia. Viewpoint: Why Britain owes reparations to India - BBC News 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z A water wasting accident, not rapacity, said Andrew, but still he declined to supply his surname. California city sends its water wasters back to school as drought deepens 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z This is why Britain’s historical amnesia about the rapacity of its rule in India is so deplorable. 'But what about the railways ...?' The myth of Britain's gifts to India 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z We can justifiably be irritated by the venality of Greek governments, the cheating, but so should we be by the rapacity of creditors, notably in respect to military hardware. Tribalism: Understanding Europe And The Greek Crisis 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z For them the Anthropocene is not proof of humankind’s shortsightedness or rapacity, let alone the product of a power structure defended vigorously by fossil energy interests. A Darker View of the Age of Us - the Anthropocene 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z Francis called attention to victims of natural disasters, especially typhoon victims in the Philippines, while renewing his call to protect the environment, which he said was “frequently exploited by human greed and rapacity.” Atheists, Work With Us for Peace, Pope Says on Christmas 2013-12-25T18:06:49Z But the Premiership leaders showed more the rapacity of hyenas in the frenzied way they defended, surrounding ball-carriers and thwarting them. Ulster given no alternative as Saracens prove so savagely effective 2013-04-07T21:00:02Z The crowd roared the ripping apart of England's forwards and the moment the men in white needed leaders to support Chris Robshaw, whose selfless tackling was not matched by his colleagues' rapacity at the breakdown. Wales 30-3 England 2013-03-16T19:05:24Z It's totally appropriate for government to regulate the terms of sale of a harmful product, and to safeguard public health from corporate rapacity – in the same way we've done with tobacco. Bloomberg's imperious overreach punished as big soda ban is blocked 2013-03-12T14:28:19Z The on the scheme until it sees concrete evidence that it truly protects hard-pressed families against the unscrupulous rapacity of the energy companies. Gaza and energy on front pages 2012-11-20T06:09:06Z The inclemency of nature, the rapacity of lay and ecclesiastical authorities and the law’s delays could not be escaped, however wisely a Prioress husbanded her resources. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z Faithlessness, extreme rapacity, and extravagant luxury, were common among them; but yet it is unquestionable that there were many exceptions. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z News of the rapacity of the demand had leaked out almost immediately. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z In 1241 it was taken and 177 plundered by Genghis Khan; a century and a half later came Tamerlane, who did not spoil it only because it was too poor to reward his rapacity. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z The North-West Provinces were still unrecovered from a dearth, during which the Government of India had exhibited a rapacity and indifference to human suffering which would, with difficulty, be credited in England. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z For the rapacity with which the benefices of the dying were sought and disputed, see ibid. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z The Spaniards expended their energies in the gold and silver hunt in Mexico and Peru and annihilated the races of those lands in their pitiless rapacity. The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce 2012-04-07T02:00:31.747Z Olgerd, the father of Wladislas, was a fierce pagan, and his thirteen sons, if we except the elder, inherited his cruelty, treachery, and rapacity. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z The latter did little towards relieving the public necessities, and served only to create a disposition for rapacity, and to increase the wealth of favored individuals. The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution 2012-04-02T02:00:25.387Z We could not punish the victims of a cruel or rapacious Ameer, without at the same time cutting off at their source the cruelty and rapacity, by the deposition of an unworthy ruler. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z The rapacity with which this source of income was exploited is illustrated in a case occurring at Pisa in 1304. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z With greed for the temporalities, they aspire to the pastoral crook, and devour their flocks with such rapacity as to threaten the up-rooting of the whole order. The Grotesque in Church Art 2012-03-27T02:00:18.973Z Around stood gentle-eyed natives of the Antilles, with their ornaments of pearls and gold, lures that were to rouse the rapacity which exterminated those Arcadian peoples, and to break the heart of their great discoverer. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z Avarice and rapacity were seemingly as common then as now. The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution 2012-04-02T02:00:25.387Z He inveighed against the arrogance, rapacity, and injustice, of the English, and contrasted them with the French, whom they had driven from the soil. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z This most harassing and oppressive form of taxation had long been the cause of incurable trouble, aggravated by the rapacity with which it was enforced, even to the pitiful collections of the gleaner. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z His rapacity had made him an object of general aversion. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Even the Church was by no means immune from the king's rapacity. A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance 2012-03-23T02:00:40.930Z Hong-Kong is highly appreciated by the Chinese, who, to escape from the tyranny and rapacity of their Manchoo rulers, stifle their national pride, and flock to it in great numbers. Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) 2012-03-19T02:00:25.027Z Many of the traders, and those in their employ, were ruffians of the coarsest stamp, who vied with each other in rapacity, violence, and profligacy. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z The portion of the tithe which the priest could retain in this scramble was rarely sufficient for his wants, addicted as he frequently was to dissolute living, and exposed to the rapacity of his superiors. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z The messenger indeed had spoken of the leniency of Bula Matadi, but the chief might have reminded him of the outrages the people had suffered; of the rapacity, the ruthless brutalities, of the forest guards. Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo 2012-03-07T03:00:16.567Z The poor, besides, had not wherewith to satisfy the rapacity of Pagan priests, who, like ours, did nothing without money. Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels 2012-03-06T03:00:27.910Z The Headman spent some time examining the collection of the sundries they offered him and made a few indifferent attempts to restrain the rapacity of his retainers, who desired something, too. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z His rapacity was in reality Napoleon’s, for he gave the same undeviating obedience to superior orders which he enforced in his own subordinates. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z In Naples, under the Angevines, when the Inquisition was first introduced, Charles of Anjou monopolized the confiscations with the same rapacity that was customary in France. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z Before a day had passed Imbono came into the camp to complain of the insolence and rapacity of Boloko and his men. Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo 2012-03-07T03:00:16.567Z Some said that their consciences smote them; others admitted that their rapacity was not satisfied. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z No one need set out more fairly and forcibly the rapacity of our Irish Reformationists, the frauds of Strafford, and the barbarities of Cromwell. The Commercial Restraints of Ireland 2012-02-13T03:00:20.483Z It is also possible that I might have made better terms than you, with the rapacity of Gwinn.' A Life's Secret A Novel 2012-02-13T03:00:17.060Z To elevate a gateway or to give any external sign of affluence is to make himself a mark for the official rapacity which spares none. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z The Gawar Christians are industrious and inoffensive, and have no higher aspiration than to be let alone, but they are the victims of a Kurdish rapacity which leaves them little more than necessary food. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z It is a cunning maneuver, this, of strengthening atheism by enlisting anti-Mormon rapacity against the God of the Christians. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z They accounted for misery in their time by the rapacity of kings and the cruelty of priests. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 8 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Political 2012-02-11T03:03:48.503Z Then the rapacity of all those neighbouring folk who had need of building material completed the havoc wrought by natural forces, and finally Slaugham Place became what it is to-day. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z It has suffered terribly from "plague, pestilence, and famine," and from the awful rapacity of governors. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z But in most districts allegations concerning the rapacity and exactions of the provincial governors were universal, and there is unfortunately great reason for believing them well founded. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z Adalbert had to wait long before he could influence these men who, secure in their castles, could indulge their rapacity without fear of punishment. Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers 2012-01-17T03:00:20.443Z They are the two extremes to which the Roman temperament was most prone, rapacity and meanness in gaining money, vulgar ostentation and coarse sensuality in using it32. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Shark's manners, rapacity; To the manner born, accustomed to something from birth. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z In these early days poetical arrogance seems to have been as unchecked as military boastfulness, and the trovadores, pampered and fêted by prince and noble, at length grew insufferable in their insolence and rapacity. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z They say that the tribute fixed by the Shah is "not too much," but that it is doubled and more by the rapacity of governors, and that the people are growing poorer every year. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z He said that, if the Government passed through the Rebellion without dismemberment, there was the strongest danger of its falling a prey to the rapacity of the office-seeking class. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) The True Story of a Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:32.877Z To his family he had always been formidable, but also an object of jealous rapacity and expectation. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z Then, in the drawing of a breath, they were all destroyed, gone, killed by slavery, in the name of God on the points of swords, by the rapacity, the corruption, the diseases, of civilization. San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z God being what He is, at once moral and all-powerful, the immoral life is doomed to overthrow, whether the immorality consist in grasping rapacity, proud self-aggrandizement, cruel exaction, exulting triumph or senseless idolatry. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z All complaints, and they were many, were of the exactions and rapacity of the local governors. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z To his rapacity there was no limit in such cases, short of the ruin of his victims. The Christ Of Paul Or, The Enigmas of Christianity 2011-12-24T03:08:04.237Z But this is not all—clerical rapacity holds property even in the corpse which cannot be interred until this last grasping charge is satisfied. Religion In The Heavens Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures 2011-12-24T03:08:03.360Z This may be necessary to check the rapacity of corporations; but otherwise there is too much danger of extravagance, discouragement of individual enterprise, and delay in improving the processes monopolised by the municipality. Liberty In The Nineteenth Century 2011-12-24T03:08:02.240Z Hence the white man's rapacity and cruelty put an effectual bar to his curiosity and enterprise. Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent 2011-12-24T03:07:57.647Z Umbelini, who is notorious for his rapacity, might have sent some of his men in pursuit. Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand 2011-12-02T03:00:22.447Z But men like this Bastien, who are endowed with the appetites of the brute combined with the instinct of rapacity, are at least excessively fond of their wives and their young. The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence 2011-11-28T03:00:23.427Z But the process of collecting a fresh royal army was slow, and Goring and his subordinate, Sir Richard Grenville, were alienating the king’s most devoted adherents by their rapacity, cruelty and debauchery. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z There are others which make such a life difficult or absolutely impossible: uncompromising selfishness, violence, cruelty, rapacity, instinctive hostility to one's neighbour. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z It feeds on frogs, lizards, mice, and other small animals, but like many of the snake kind often gorges itself and falls a victim to its own rapacity. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z At worst, it is a repulsive rapacity on the part of females to secure perpetuation. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z The extravagant tastes of Mrs. Arnold, amiable woman though she was, are known to have heightened her husband's rapacity, and thus added to the incentives which resulted in treason and just ruin. Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches 2011-11-04T02:00:19.293Z Still greater was the suffering produced by the rapacity of Roman traders and capitalists: it is recorded that Sicyon was reduced to sell its most cherished art treasures in order to satisfy its creditors. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z Scarcely had he begun to reign, when his rapacity was signally exhibited. Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California 2011-11-02T02:00:11.380Z Its rapacity has earned for it the name of "the Butcher Bird." Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z Nevertheless, I was no green victim to experienced rapacity. Thirty Years in Australia 2011-10-25T02:00:27.397Z The rapacity of the captors had taken the remnants of the rags left by the fury of battle. Martyria or Andersonville Prison 2011-10-22T02:00:28.563Z The avarice of greed and the rapacity of war have long since stripped every obelisk of its metal covering. Cleopatra's Needle A History of the London Obelisk, with an Exposition of the Hieroglyphics 2011-10-19T02:00:21.933Z The congressmen were convinced of that chieftain's rapacity, and resolved to afford him no further opportunity to plunder the people under the guise of patriotism. Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California 2011-11-02T02:00:11.380Z With wolves, as with many other animals, hunger and thirst are apparently the principal causes of savagery and the struggle for existence the main cause of rapacity and cruelty. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z The success of their missionary rapacity enabled them to build spacious convents, sufficiently sumptuous for the accommodation of pious kings who wished to abdicate their thrones. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z The Jews have often been held up to contempt for their avarice and rapacity. Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z Clutch′es, the hands or paws: cruelty: rapacity. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z They revile us for our party politics; but what are all the European jealousies and rivalries, their armaments and their wars, their rapacities and their mutual lies, but the intensity of the spirit of party? Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z They are remarkable for their rapacity, subsisting entirely on the flesh and blood of other animals. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z His rapacity empoverished the nation, and his religious intolerance perpetually convulsed it with sedition and war. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z The rapacity of the Roman Governors knew no bounds. Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z By reducing such cases down to the level of common life, we the better discover their injustice and unfold their rapacity. Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:34.837Z All had fallen before the rapacity of this bloodthirsty creature. The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains 2011-09-24T02:00:16.927Z The amphibious South Sea Islanders," says Mr. Wood, "stand in great dread of the Shark, and with good reason, for not a year elapses without several victims falling to the rapacity of this terrific animal. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z He disclosed the dangerous principles of their constitution, their political objects, the oaths by which they were bound, the baseness of their intrigues, their false professions, their horrible deeds, and their disgraceful rapacity and profligacy. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z During the recent Armenian massacres they were allowed a free hand, and their cruelty and rapacity were such as to defy description. Turkey Peeps at Many Lands 2011-09-21T02:00:31.190Z The boy, however, cared nothing for the business details, although he mechanically cursed the rapacity of the city-bred as his father did. Wang the Ninth The Story of a Chinese Boy 2011-09-12T02:00:25.620Z The same struggle for prizes and for place, the same greedy rapacity, the same love of gossip and display. The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book 2011-09-09T02:01:11.180Z His face showed no longer either anger or rapacity, merely indifference and insensibility. The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z This individual was of the vampire type of idle good-for-nothings, who lived at the French court, and whose rapacity eventually caused such havoc in the most exalted circles. Stories about Famous Precious Stones 2011-08-31T02:01:42.217Z All these events took place within three years after the discovery; so active is rapacity. History of the Buccaneers of America 2011-08-19T02:00:13.187Z I am aware, of course, That all this is very mean And low down On my part, But frankly Your rapacity Matters not so much to me As to yourself. Outlook Odes 2011-08-16T02:00:47.257Z He hated cruelty, injustice, rapacity and arbitrary conduct. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z But Josh held his hand persistently open, till Mr Weech, having released the fifth shilling, stopped altogether, scandalised at such rapacity. A Child of the Jago 2011-08-05T02:00:52.533Z They did not intend ever to set eyes on Aramon again, and they cared nothing for the dissatisfaction caused by their last measures of rapacity. A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z The rapacity, licentiousness, and cruelty, of the Buccaneers, in their pillage of Panama, had no bounds. History of the Buccaneers of America 2011-08-19T02:00:13.187Z His serious occupation was the making of laws to increase his own power for rapacity, and to take away from the people every vestige of rights that they might have inherited. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 5, October 1893 2011-07-30T02:00:16.467Z Eliot: Sir John Eliot compared Buckingham to Sejanus in lust, rapacity and ambition, in the House of Commons, and seconded the motion for his impeachment. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z “I will, father,” said the younger man, smiling and feeling refreshed, after his arduous daily toil and study of man’s greed, rapacity, and sin, with the simple, innocent kindness of his father’s heart. Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family 2011-07-08T02:00:20.557Z Nothing but the repetition of the past he had read of in books, aggravated by the lawlessness and rapacity of the present. The White Squaw 2011-07-05T02:00:26.437Z Principal hotels humbly proffer pension at ten marks a day, and proprietors are accused of rapacity by their fellow-countrymen. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93., October 1, 1887 2011-06-29T02:00:26.507Z In vain may the government lavish its money and order the purchase of the needful materials; its intentions are sure to be baffled by the corruption and rapacity of its servants. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z The rapacity of the new Emperor, in fact, was the cause of his speedy downfall. A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day 2011-06-22T02:00:21.157Z Shortly afterwards, however, he was recalled by his countrymen, and sent on a mission to Paris to remonstrate against the rapacity and cruelty of the agents of the French republic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z The question was a natural one when viewing only the advantages which high culture presented; but its obverse was unfavourable, when considering that civilisation is often an approach to barbarism through selfishness and rapacity. The White Squaw 2011-07-05T02:00:26.437Z Living in one of the territories administered by the Government of the Cape Colony, he had nothing to fear from the rapacity of the chief, or the malice of the witch-doctor. The White Hecatomb And other Stories 2011-06-15T02:00:22.103Z It is only to be regretted that these brilliant qualities are often tarnished by the corruption which administrative venality and rapacity, supervening upon long military occupations, have insensibly diffused through all classes of the population. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z But what are gravity and decorum, if sustained by an inflated pride and inordinate rapacity? ambition being a term too lofty for such a craving. Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay 2011-06-14T02:00:24.670Z "When some new act of rapacity was resisted there came war; but a war of Bengalees against Englishmen was like a war of sheep against wolves, of men against demons." The Impeachment of The House of Brunswick 2011-05-31T02:00:34.353Z This culminated in the refusal of the laborers to cultivate the fertile soil because, the tax-gatherer's rapacity left an insufficient remnant to provide the cultivator with the merest necessaries of life. A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays 2011-05-31T02:00:28.247Z Exposed to the unchecked rapacity of the chiefs, the unhappy people were always in danger of death, or confiscation of their property upon some puerile pretext. The White Hecatomb And other Stories 2011-06-15T02:00:22.103Z There is in the expression of their countenances, an inconceivable mixture of boldness, frankness, and fierce rapacity. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z The next three years were ones of immunity from the rapacity of the Normans, so far as we were concerned, for they never ventured so far north. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z The troops from Hesse Cassel, from Hesse Darmstadt, and from Hanover, earned an unenviable notoriety by their cruelty, rapacity, and licentiousness. The Impeachment of The House of Brunswick 2011-05-31T02:00:34.353Z But about that time Andrew Carnegie, grown rich and powerful, began to chafe uneasily under the restrictions placed upon his rapacity by his organized employees. The Great Steel Strike and its Lessons 2011-05-07T02:00:25.193Z Governors, magnificence of the, 54; their rapacity, 74. Cuba Past and Present 2011-04-16T02:00:18.193Z He laid this on the floor and opened it, and in a sort of hideous rapacity seemed to gloat over it. Doors of the Night 2011-04-12T02:00:23.287Z He spoke of the nature of his income making it impossible for him to pay but at stated periods; and of the remorseless rapacity of tradesmen. Mornings at Bow Street A Selection of the Most Humorous and Entertaining Reports which Have Appeared in the 'Morning Herald' 2011-04-08T02:00:09.863Z The case in which he first appeared was of considerable responsibility for one so young and inexperienced, being an accusation, at the instance of the Roman province of Africa, against its governors for rapacity. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z Balseiro, being well acquainted with the father’s affection for his children, determined to make it subservient to his own rapacity. The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] 2011-03-27T02:00:17.093Z Yes, alluring, tempting, making rapacity and ill-gotten wealth appear justifiable, seen through the seductive glamour of Success! The Squatter and the Don 2011-03-27T02:00:13.400Z Nor has the Export Trade on the River Thames been in any respect secured against the rapacity of this phalanx of plunderers. A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention 2011-03-23T02:00:17.353Z He robbed with a furious rapacity, and granted favors with great generosity. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z In one early and unsuccessful debate in 1753, the MP for York asserted that a census would "impair the liberty of the individual", describing it as a "most effectual engine of rapacity and repression". Do we actually need a census? 2011-03-10T08:00:09Z Deprived of her small patrimony by her brothers’ rapacity, she betook herself to Constantinople to obtain redress at court. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z But let them look to it, they might yet carry their heartless rapacity beyond limit. The Squatter and the Don 2011-03-27T02:00:13.400Z Among such a nation of beggars as the people of Southern Abyssinia, it was not always easy to satisfy the rapacity of fastidious extortioners. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z One has a vague idea of ceremony, bows, obeisances, ignorance, rapacity, and cruelty, but the idea is nebulous, and we need not stop. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z He had given up all hope in his own resources, and had resolved to enlist the next nondescript in his service, be his terms whatever his rapacity dictated. Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 3 of 3) 2011-02-16T03:00:37.273Z Elizabeth was personally unpopular, and the rapacity and insolence of her family was well known. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z But when I see the same enormities practised upon beings whose complexion and blood claim kindred with my own, I curse the perpetrators, and weep over the wretched victims of their rapacity. White Slavery in the Barbary States 2011-02-10T03:00:50.200Z The instinct to "have at" an aristo with all the accumulated hatred of many generations was warring with the innate rapacity of the Breton peasant. Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z There is no trouble whatever, save in your own greed and covetous rapacity. The Mesa Trail 2011-01-27T03:00:37.207Z He set his heel on the rapacity of the adventurers, compelling the chief of them, the Earl of Cork, to disgorge. Irish History and the Irish Question 2011-01-16T03:00:22.640Z In it there once dwelt two rogues, Siva and Madhava, who, with the help of their confederates, contrived to make both rich and poor of that place victims to their cunning and rapacity. Fairy Tales From all Nations 2011-01-16T03:00:21.797Z He served in the campaign of 1870 as a colonel and distinguished himself by the most outrageous acts of cruelty and rapacity. The Woman of Mystery 2011-01-15T03:00:36.260Z Terror and rapacity were ranged on one side against inordinate vanity. Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z It is a spirit that assumes the respectable character of a love of liberty; and under that mask, it gives play to malice, envy, covetousness, rapacity, and all the lowest passions of our nature. The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z Their rapacity was not concerned with the religion of the Irish, but only with their property and industry. Irish Nationality 2011-01-11T03:00:30.560Z These brigands of the world have exhausted the land by their rapacity, so they now ransack the sea. Does America really have the finest military in the world? 2011-01-06T20:01:00Z It had its origin in the unregenerated nature of man, who is only an intellectual wild beast, whose rapacity has never yet been restrained, by a sense of justice. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z In the end it was rapacity that gained the victory. Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z It was impossible that an example of such a wrong could be successfully exhibited on a large scale, without producing its deluded imitators, on another that was better suited to the rapacity of individual longings. The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z Through all the sweet, calm hours of that warm June night the sacrifice progressed with amazing rapacity. The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business 2011-01-04T03:01:00.723Z My blood boils when I am told that a merchant durst not enjoy his honest gains, for fear of losing them by the rapacity of power. Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z The natives were exposed to a double confiscation, and every consideration of good government was not seldom subordinated to this universal rapacity. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z Terror and rapacity were the counsellors which ranged themselves on the side of his schemes, but mere vanity and caprice fought a hard battle too. Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z Like the rest of Greece, Athens suffered greatly from the rapacity of its Byzantine administrators. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" Still, the removal of the Moriscoes on the present occasion was attended with fewer acts of violence and rapacity than the former removal, from Granada. History of The Reign of Philip The Second King of Spain Volume The Third and Biographical & Critical Miscellanies Their sole purpose is power and plunder; and they suffer no constitutional or natural law to stand in the way of their rapacity. A New Banking System The Needful Capital for Rebuilding the Burnt District The new system which might have repelled by its violence and rapacity became the centre of the national enthusiasm. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z Indeed in some armies the soldier regards his officer chiefly as his protector from the rapacity or cruelty of his sergeant or corporal. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" She was sitting beside a bird's nest, the young ones of which she was feeding and cherishing—for the parent birds, by the rapacity of a cat, had recently perished. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 After a banquet he fell calmly into his last sleep In his will there was none of the craven adulation by which the victim often strove to save his heirs from imperial rapacity. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Energetic, obstinate, cunning and unscrupulous, she inherited, too, her father’s avarice and rapacity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" I grant your courage and strength excellent, taken by the measure of the land; but, oh, the monstrous rapacity!' The Unknown Sea Unhappily, the rapacity of the men deprived poor Louise of the full completion of her pious task. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 The villages did all in their power to defend themselves from the rapacity of the soldiers. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. It preys upon every animal it can master, and man himself sometimes falls a victim to its rapacity. Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom Out of the villages and farms nestling in valleys the people were driven into cities by the rapacity of men eager to be rich. Stand Up, Ye Dead They had to fear no petty oppressors, no local hostility; and if they could satisfy the rapacity of the crown, were secure from all other grievances. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 She has breathed the air of rapacity from childhood. The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop The unfortunate victim of their rapacity and cruelty was, however, not dead. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. It generally flies from man, but occasions have frequently occurred in which persons have fallen victims to its rage or rapacity. Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom They must pass under the yoke of the strangers, and thou, too, after all thy noble struggles and sacrifices, must perish miserably under their cruel and implacable rapacity.” Sketches of Aboriginal Life American Tableaux, No. 1 He was a good and conscientious ruler, who protected the people from the rapacity of the tax-gatherers and introduced peace into his country. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" I marvel at the rapacity of some folk. Harper's Round Table, July 2, 1895 Both Cuban and Spanish families suffered from their rapacity. The Greater Republic A History of the United States Anecdotes.—The rapacity of this fish is notorious. Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom It heralded their near approach to his capital, and the exposure of all he held dear to their irresistible power—their terrible rapacity. Sketches of Aboriginal Life American Tableaux, No. 1 I told him he should lose three days' playtime for his rapacity. Mothering on Perilous At this unsettled and warlike period, protection was required for the tribe or clan from the enmity or rapacity of neighbouring hordes. Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards The burden imposed upon the tax payers by the vast military and civil establishment was immensely aggravated by the extortions practised by representatives of both services, whose rapacity knew no bounds. A History of Rome to 565 A. D. Their brutal rapacity filled even their confederates with indignation. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 This noble rapacity exasperated Monsieur René d'Esparvieu, who, failing to understand the good qualities of his paragon of a librarian, called him an old maniac. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels The act for regulating of officers and offices, shows how many abuses and how much rapacity had crept into the administration. History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia For why were those little tails cut off, in the first place? and if they were cut off, why should any humane person be invited to see such a spectacle of man's rapacity? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 It was the duty of the governor to check their rapacity, but from want of sympathy with the oppressed and unwillingness to offend the Roman business interests this duty was rarely performed. A History of Rome to 565 A. D. Cruelty formed no part of Cortes' character, yet he will always be reproached for having yielded up his better feelings on this occasion to satisfy the rapacity of others. The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 2 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. The rapacity and cruelty of Constantina, joined with the mad profligacy of her husband, ended by ruining them both. Women of Early Christianity This was a mission after Mohammed Bey's own heart: he impaled the chief and several of his family, and displayed a rapacity and cruelty unheard of before even in those blood-stained countries. Visits To Monasteries in the Levant Out of all the oppression, rapacity, confiscation, which the two peoples experienced in different forms and different degrees, arose an unworldly ideal, a sense of the invisible realm. Women of England The merchants, however, were as yet shy of trusting their valuable property within reach of Mexican rapacity, and consequently, the troops were beginning to find themselves somewhat embarrassed. Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia To quiet the newcomers there would be fresh rapacity, more stringent despoilings. Rulers of India: Lord Clive Unfortunately, owing to the rapacity of the nobles, this splendid scheme of national education was not carried out in its entirety. Border Raids and Reivers They had, at any rate before 1400, nothing in common with the people among whom they fought, and their disorderly conduct and rapacity seem often to have exceeded that of other medieval armies. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" The rapacity, bigotry, and cruelty which characterized the rule of the Portuguese in Ceylon forms one of the darkest pages in the history of European colonization. The Pearl of India This guilt consisted in a foul robbery committed by Nan and her infamous son upon your innocent mother, now rendered, through her feebleness, an easy prey to their rapacity. The Lamplighter They filled London with stories of his rapacity. Rulers of India: Lord Clive The soldiers after destroying all that was not of immediate use, extended their rapacity to surrounding zones, constantly broadening their radius of destruction as the siege was prolonged. Sónnica The purpose of the act to protect the individual employees in the service from the rapacity of the “political barons” has been measurably, if not completely, successful. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" Yet who shall blame them, when the Chief Justice, with a smallness of rapacity at which all men wondered, refused to pay, and I believe, still withholds the duties on his imports? The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) The people, provoked by the exasperating rapacity and extortion of the Viceroy of the King of Spain, rose in rebellion, choosing Masaniello as their captain and leader. Weird Tales. Vol. I Custom, no doubt, sets bounds to his rapacity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" Neither their lives nor their honour, their homes nor their property, were safe from the malice and the lust and the rapacity of the brutal ministers of Russian officialdom. The Angel of the Revolution A Tale of the Coming Terror Negro labor toils and produces without adequate reward or protection against the rapacity of Southern employers. The Ultimate Criminal The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 17 Little did they know the rapacity of the Black Eagle. German Problems and Personalities They thus succeeded in making many of our people an easy prey to their rapacity and cunning. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital These acts of national injustice, so much desired by revolutionists, are never beneficial to the people; they never partake of the spoliation, and the whole terminates in the gratification of private rapacity. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 How the reptile propensities of his mean nature had thriven beneath the sudden sunshine of unexpected prosperity!—See already his selfishness, truculence, rapacity, in full play! Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. The intense hatred with which the barons regarded the Despensers was due to the enormous wealth which had passed into their hands, and to the arrogance and rapacity of the younger Hugh. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" Arnold was a strange mixture of bravery and treachery, generosity and rapacity, courage and petty spite. Famous Firesides of French Canada We have famine, owing to the incapacity of the government, and the rapacity of speculators. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital The point worthy of note is not her rapacity but the dexterity with which she utilized literature to further her ambition. An Ocean Tramp Of course the stories told about the rapacity of the Conynghams have been innumerable. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II Yet the rebellions continued, mainly owing to the rapacity of the governors sent from Rome, as is proved by the answer of Batone to Tiberius, reported by Dion Cassius. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia Five Maharajahs in this brief period, "all murdered," have been sacrificed to the ambition of profligate courtiers, or the rapacity of a debauched soldiery. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 For his subsequent conduct in seizing on her father’s petty states, which was done when he seized Palpa, it will be difficult to account, except on the principle of insatiable rapacity. An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal And of the Territories Annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha And a former priest’s rapacity had resulted in forcing illegitimacy upon half the children of this benighted hamlet, because of their parents’ inability to afford the luxury of a canonical marriage. Carmen Ariza And although at a later period the rapacity, dissoluteness, and tyranny of the monkish orders led to revolt, by that time the imagination of all had been thoroughly impressed with the value of religion. Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development In the first place, the district of Zips, the first sacrifice to Austrian rapacity, came under consideration. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 Under its standard gather violence, malignity, rage, fraud, rapacity, and lust. Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace Association Strange, sleeping potentialities lurked in the face; as at the turn of a kaleidoscope, Gregory could fancy it suddenly transformed, by some hostile touch, some menace, to a savage violence and rapacity. Tante Josè was thankful that, for a few months, at least, he would have a powerful hold on this man through his rapacity. Carmen Ariza The second growth of stunted timber, showing everywhere 114 the scars of the wasting rapacity of man, stood stark and wilted to the roots. The Shepherd of the North In this whole matter of "getting a living," Calvin was a great contrast to the rapacity of the age in which he lived. Lords of the Housetops Thirteen Cat Tales Acquiesce in the tyranny which offends no longer, but be sure that acquiescence never yet has disarmed the despot when his rapacity needs a victim. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848 The outside of the cup was kept scrupulously scoured, but the inside was filled with the products of rapacity and the material for luxurious excess. The Social Principles of Jesus She knew God, their God and hers; and that knowledge began, even on that dull, gray afternoon, to cut into the chains of human rapacity which enslaved them. Carmen Ariza But what voice or words shall I find to express the disastrous ravages, the incredible upheavals, the insatiable rapacity, caused by the headstrong rivers? Thoughts on Art and Life A tacit alliance is established between rapacity on the one hand and social sexual hypocrisy on the other. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study It was a rough and tempestuous time and the Hōjō have left a name in their country of unexampled cruelty and rapacity. Japan His expression, however, was petulant and haughty and it contained more than a suggestion of rapacity and evil. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 We've been in the South Seas," continued the speaker, a man named L'Ollonois, noted for his cruelty, rapacity, and success, "and the captain speaks truly. Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer A Romance of the Spanish Main Not satisfied with the plundering of Ruddle’s and Martin’s stations, their rapacity prompted them to insist on going against Bryant’s and Lexington. Chronicles of Border Warfare or, a History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the State In this way ignorance of the laws of heredity and the rapacity of pecuniary interests perpetually tend toward the antisocial procreation of a degenerate posterity. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study V.—Covetousness and rapacity must be expelled from the hearts of officers, and they must adjudicate with just discrimination in all suits that come before them. Japan Why should his innocent loved ones be the victims of a villain's rapacity? Treasure Valley They are the two extremes to which the Roman temperament was most prone: rapacity and meanness in gaining money, vulgar ostentation and coarse sensuality in using it.’—Sellar. Helps to Latin Translation at Sight It encouraged ignorance, and instituted a censorship even for works on jurisprudence, philosophy, and politics, and for novels that reflected on the avarice and rapacity of the priests, their dissolute conduct, and their hypocricy.” The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, June, 1880 The fire had seemed to take advantage of its unwatched opportunity and had put it pretty well out of any one's power to rescue much more from its rapacity. Say and Seal, Volume II The command of a body of troops in Connecticut was afterward given him, and he then showed a rapacity and intolerance that well consorted with the new position he had so basely purchased. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History Hatred, delight in mischief, rapacity and ambition, and whatever else is called evil, belong to the marvellous economy of the conservation of the race.—Fr. Gems (?) of German Thought There were cabs enough and to spare, he said, but they were affecting non-existence from malicious motives, and as a stepping-stone to ultimate rapacity. Somehow Good In African legislation, almost all crimes are punished with slavery; and thanks to the white man's rapacity, there is always a very powerful motive for finding the culprit guilty. An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans Tom Teeter was standing down there between the rows of cabbages, talking to Mr. Gordon upon the "Conscienceless greed and onmitigated rapacity" of certain emissaries of the opposing political party. 'Lizbeth of the Dale Even his own rapacity had not thought to hold up Burroughs for such a sum. A Man of Two Countries But the selfish rapacity of the King of Prussia gave the signal to his neighbors. Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) The whole story is an extraordinary picture of high-handed rapacity—the crudest possible assertion of the right of the stronger. A Little Tour of France No. On the contrary, great numbers of human beings every year fall victims to the rapacity of the jaguars. Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt The reasons why genuine æsthetic feeling inhibits these obsolescent instincts of rapacity and ruthlessness, are reasons negative and positive, and may be roughly divided into three headings. Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life His wealth excited the rapacity of the viceroy Count Lemos, who, to obtain possession of it, accused him of exciting the natives to rebellion, and cast him into prison. The Mines and its Wonders For two hundred years a contest involving their very existence as a people has been maintained against the unscrupulous rapacity of Anglo-Saxon civilization. The American Empire From one of his latest letters in Elizabeth's reign we gather that the tavern-keepers throughout the country considered Raleigh at fault for a tax which was really insisted on by the Queen's rapacity. Raleigh From the rapacity of the royal officers in the chancery and exchequer, and the courts of king's bench and common pleas; 3. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 It was the English who impressed on the operations, that were to follow, the character of a selfish and sordid rapacity. Lectures on the French Revolution His rapacity disgusted even an age in which every one could be bought and sold. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" It is as unnecessary, as it would be painful, to enter on an enumeration of the instances of wanton cruelty, violence, and rapacity, which have sullied the fame of their most brilliant deeds in arms. Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes. Yet we shall not save them by merely sinking into them with the conservative sort of contentment, even if the commercial rapacity of our plutocratic reforms would allow us to do so. What I Saw in America I think they have a just appreciation of the Falstaffian method of conducting warfare, and are firmly convinced that "he who fights and runs away," has better opportunities for glory, rapacity and booty, another day. Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography Jerusalem was now exposed to the rapacity of the Roman generals who really governed the country. Ancient States and Empires It is only an old domestic virtue, carried to an extreme—thrift, running into an engaging rapacity. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) Instead of the brotherhood of man, she has exhibited the cruelty and rapacity of devils. The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology "It excited vigilance," he said, "against any encroachment of violence or rapacity; it ensured to the people that which they most required—repose, security, and tranquillity." The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) The ambassador goes on to speak of the rapacity with which the king's suite quarrelled about the presents offered by the English, and gives other details which struck him unpleasantly. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century While the cause of the royal litigants was being settled in the supreme tribunal of the civilized world, new disturbances broke out in Judea, caused by the rapacities of Sabinus, the Roman procurator of Syria. Ancient States and Empires At this they were indignant, supposing, poor spirits, 'that he compared them to eagles as to their rapacity, and consequently thought them wicked.' Myths and Marvels of Astronomy Revolutionary violence, therefore, has no excuse except in the selfish rapacity which prompts it. Speeches of His Majesty Kamehameha IV. To the Hawaiian Legislature It was near midnight before their rapacity was satisfied. Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days Old Jacob had testified not only to his identity, but to the wrongful compact by which Gilbert had been spirited away to suit his uncle's rapacity. Tom, The Bootblack or, The Road to Success Hence there arose among the allies not only a fear of the grasping dominion, but a hatred of the monopolizing rapacity of Sparta. Ancient States and Empires He hastened to explain, however, that he 'did not liken them to eagles as to their rapacity, but as to sharpsightedness.' Myths and Marvels of Astronomy Never yet did religious fanaticism satisfy its own desires without simultaneously and obligingly ministering to the rapacity of the attendant greedy grabber. Chronicles of Strathearn It stands forth the Judas of corporations, a monument to greed and a warning to rapacity. Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated It was necessary, in self-defence, to limit the man's rapacity. In A New World or, Among The Gold Fields Of Australia His exactions were exorbitant, and his rapacity boundless. Ancient States and Empires The rapacity of those called Christians, which has not scrupled at any means of conquest and extirpation, and the rum and diseases introduced, have laid my numerous population in the grave. Thoughts on Missions The industrious peasantry, comparatively safe from Turkish rapacity, have cultivated the ledges among its crags and peaks, and enjoy the fruits of their industry, sitting under their vines and fig trees. The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 This transaction demonstrates the despotism of the "System," the extent of its rapacity, and its arrogant disregard of all laws and rights, human or divine, in the enforcement of its exactions. Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated With dazzling rapacity, at first only supported by a handful of followers, but gathering numbers with success, he erected the royal standard at Dumfries. An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America Not a few were alarmed at the rapacity of the friars, whose greed seemed never to be satisfied. The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan Guided chiefly by the violent spirit of the primate, and freed from the control of Parliament, they displayed a rapacity, a violence, a malignant energy, which had been unknown to any former age. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 At last, but with difficulty—so despised at first was this state, that even the rapacity of foreign monarchs spurned her opening bloom—a stranger deigned to accept their importunate offer of a dangerous crown. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II. I have stripped the veil from these hypocrites and exposed to all the world their soulless rapacity. Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated The coarseness, vice, rapacity, and inhumanity of the oppressor must of necessity have a corresponding influence on their better natures. An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America Emesa, its temple, and its treasure escaped the rapacity of the Persians; and an example of resistance was set, which was not perhaps without important consequences. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 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. Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea But that deeper spiritual rapacity, one offspring of passion as it may be, they could not satisfy; for love with them is always too confused with animalism and is desiccated in the art of love-making. Black Oxen Their rapacity and greed have led them to sacrifice principle to party. Colleges in America Those are the keys by which the locks of cabinets and councils are henceforth to be opened, and the secrets of national wealth laid bare to the rapacity of the rabble.” Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 He was more promptly successful in rapacity for the public, it must be admitted, than for himself. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography We found that the Indians hated the Spaniards and dreaded their rapacity and cruelty. Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea In glowing colors Dekker paints the condition of Java, its scenery, its inhabitants, the extortions of the native regents, and the rapacity of the European traders. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Fears of Prussian and Muscovite rapacity had induced Pitt and Grenville to seek disclaimers of partition at Berlin and St. Petersburg. William Pitt and the Great War Thus the rapacity of Capital defeats itself, and actually impoverishes its owners when it deprives Labor of a fair reward. Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. The information he collected filled him at once with admiration for the invincible constancy, as he described it, of the Spaniards, and with hatred of their rapacity and cruelty. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography In Pizarro, on the contrary, we find roughness, and a harsh, unsympathizing way of feeling, while his chivalrous qualities disappear entirely behind the rapacity and perfidy which are the salient features of his character. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World They are armed with sharp spines, with which it can inflict a wound on its foes, and which assist it in repelling the attacks of snakes and guarding its young from their rapacity. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America The rapacity and vulgar ostentation of the Thermidorian party, then in power, provoked general disgust; and despair of any satisfactory settlement began to range friends of order on the side of the monarchy. William Pitt and the Great War This is one of the truths which sloth, rapacity and extravagance are slow to learn, yet which they cannot safely ignore. Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. Nothing but tales of brigandage, rapacity, and cruelty were heard of the actions of the enemy. Bamboo Tales Justly or unjustly, in olden times the Deal boatmen were accused of rapacity. Heroes of the Goodwin Sands Every place through which they passed in these various marches experienced the effects of their rapacity. The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816 As for Jekyll, he called the present proposals "a detestable measure of extortion and rapacity." William Pitt and the Great War Every where I have found kindness and truth written on the faces and evinced in the acts of this people, while in Italy rapacity and knavery are the order of the day. Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. But it was the expression of the face that particularly arrested my attention, for never before had I beheld a human countenance on which unimaginable cruelty and boundless rapacity were so clearly and strongly written. Through Veld and Forest An African Story But even these were insufficient to gratify papal avarice and rapacity. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges As cities grew in wealth, they became more and more desirous of escaping from feudal rapacity and of regulating their own affairs by magistrates chosen by themselves. The Story of Rouen I would excuse the rapacity of the Mahajan if it has succeeded in keeping the gambling die or toddy from the ryot's home. Third class in Indian railways The army was his devoted servant; Italy and the world should see how different was his moderation from the rapacity of the republic and its tools, vandals like the commissioners Gareau and Salicetti. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) We are as the unhappy Indians to the rapacity of Europe. The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance Her frugality equalled the rapacity of her father, and she was extravagant only in dress, and on great occasions of public rejoicings. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges Travelling in these parts is difficult and insecure, owing to the plundering dispositions of the people, and the rapacity of the chiefs, who live beyond the control of any commanding or great sovereign power. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Had they not afforded shelter to some victim flying from his omnivorous rapacity? A History of the Four Georges, Volume II On the contrary, it was the same remorseless rapacity that robbed the Indian peasant of the fruits of his toil and left him to starve where Nature offered plenty. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers 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! The Conquest of Bread But the corruptions of the Jesuits, their system of casuistry, their lax morality, their disgraceful intrigues, their unprincipled rapacity, do not belong to the age we have now been considering. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges 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. Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses I know the ‘friendship’ that couldn’t 'stand the gaff' of public opinion, the ingratitude that makes no count of personal sacrifice, the rapacity that takes it to the border of dishonesty to attain its end. The Fighting Shepherdess These communities had no appeal against personal violence, no protection from rapacity and injustice. Diary in America, Series One This allusion to the number of the prisoners, and the rapacity of the Bailiff, was received with laughter by the crowd. The King's Daughters The young king was resolved to make war on France, but was diverted from his aim by troubles in Scotland, growing out of his own rapacity—a trait which ever peculiarly distinguished him. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges One of these piratical gentry suffered before our eyes a fate worthy of his rapacity. The Island Home There it is safe from the rapacity of local magistrates, who, if they have a chance, imitate their superiors by exacting “gratifications.” Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver On one was a satire on the hypocritical rapacity of perfidious Albion. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 He had none of the rapacity for money which has distinguished so many artists in their dealings with foreign princes, but he was irritable, turbulent, restless, intractable. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. There was no limit to Spanish rapacity and cruelty, and it was exercised over all the other countries which were subdued—Chili, Florida, and the West India Islands. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges With a weak-minded prince, averse to anything except the gratification of his passions, and under the influence of such counsellors, France became almost of necessity a scene of rapacity beyond all precedent. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 Return to Table of Contents In the year 1728, an opinion was entertained that much cruelty and rapacity were exercised by the keepers of the great prisons in London. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 454 Volume 18, New Series, September 11, 1852 Her folly and rapacity will sooner or later have their effect. Memoirs of the Court of George IV. 1820-1830 (Vol 1) From the Original Family Documents The first print most forcibly contrasts two opposite passions; the unthinking negligence of youth, and the sordid avaricious rapacity of age. The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency There they found four gallows from which were hanging the bodies of four Swedes, murdered to glut the rapacity of their Danish masters. The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa 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. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 The principal part of the inquisitors' cruelties is owing to their rapacity: they destroy the life to possess the property; and, under the pretence of zeal, plunder each obnoxious individual. Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs Yet the act was not done in a spirit of rapacity. Impressions of South Africa This man, with the rapacity so natural to those who disgrace the profession, seizes the first opportunity of plundering his employer. The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency Savages would blush at the unmanly violation and rapacity that have marked the tracks of British tyranny in America, from which neither virgin innocence nor helpless age has been a plea of protection or pity. The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 "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." Tales of the Caliph Here, in a roughly wooded island, the country people secreted their wives and children, and their most valuable effects from the rapacity of Cromwell's soldiers during their inroad into Scotland. Gathering Jewels The Secret of a Beautiful Life: In Memoriam of Mr. & Mrs. James Knowles. Selected from Their Diaries. In this branch of his profession the wizard often became the engine of the jealousy or rapacity of the chief, who would secretly prompt him to denounce a prominent or a wealthy man. Impressions of South Africa Dark were the days which now fell on Sarras, and few were those on which some violence or injustice, some deed of lust or rapacity was not flaunted in the face of heaven. A Child's Book of Saints Indeed, Hobbes's view of early society as a state of war and rapacity is much truer to fact than Rousseau's. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics There she sat, a creature of rapacity and sordid lust. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance The rapacity of all these classes is proverbial, and an instance may be given of the conduct of the Pandas or temple-priests of Benāres. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II She glanced hurriedly in the direction of a policeman who had niched a banana from a bunch providentially exposed to his rapacity on a truck, and was hastily consuming it. Blacksheep! Blacksheep! On the other hand, they had every sort of incentive and teaching to prompt them to rapacity and lawlessness. Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity It tinged victory with a hideous color of rapacity and brutality. The Tyranny of Weakness Men are slaying each other on land, in the air, on the water and below it while the forces of Destruction are gnawing holes in the World's resources with the rapacity of swarming rats. Deep Furrows Four days did Cremona minister to their rapacity. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome That is why I am going to Tunis, to try and extort from the bey's rapacity a small portion of the great fortune which he so unjustly withholds. The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) His father would talk savagely in reply about the enormous expenses of house-building, house-furnishing, and removing,—and architects’ and lawyers’ fees; he would be sure to mention the rapacity of architects and lawyers. Clayhanger When all the civilization of a planet has been given to destruction by the unreasoning stupidity and insatiable rapacity of its royalty, allegiance to such royalty is at an end. Skylark Three "Has she any chance?" the boy asked, full of pity for the victim of such rapacity. The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Such was the rapacity of the plunderers, that they took even Lady Nairn's watch and clothes. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. He left behind him a character of reckless rapacity, and of a determined will, notwithstanding some generous and humane actions. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. I often wonder why it is that America, which is essentially a country of sports and gamblers, has not the European courage as well as rapacity for fresh development in cultural matters. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets It was stripped of this dazzling ornament to satisfy the rapacity of the conquerors. South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure And the Spaniard here, who has been driven out for his cruelty and rapacity. A Little Girl in Old Detroit These 'traders' could charge what sums they liked against the Indian, and get them too; for there was no one to defeat or check their rapacity. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy But now that I began to look over Woodruff's legislative program in advance, I was amazed at the rapacity of my clients, rapacious though I knew them to be. The Plum Tree In order to protect your interests from the proven rapacity of the administration here, Earth has revoked the independent charter of Marsport. Police Your Planet Money is withdrawn from the country to satisfy the rapacity of a victorious enemy: money is also withdrawn from the country to pay for merchandise. Sophisms of the Protectionists That prince, it seems, had displayed in his outset considerable promise of moral excellence: in particular, neither rapacity nor cruelty was apparently any feature in his character. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg 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. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy If men like him are the light, men like us are the lantern that shields it from the alternating winds of rapacity and resentment. The Plum Tree "I don't know that rapacity is confined to trade," admitted Annie. A Houseful of Girls Side by side with this struggle another was being carried on, a struggle for the liberty of the subject against the tyranny and rapacity of the king. London and the Kingdom - Volume I He was brave, active, free from vice, and, although fond of money, was never charged with extortion or rapacity. A Smaller History of Rome Instead of sharing Curll's rapacity, he consented, at Mrs. Whiteway's request, to wait until Pope had an opportunity of expressing his wishes. Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series His rapacity, like the trunk of an elephant, with equal skill twists a fortune out of the Broadway widening, and picks up dishonest pennies in the Bowery.” Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City Each succeeding civilization has reached this epochal period, and has fallen, victim of the rapacity of stronger and younger invading antagonists, themselves to succumb to the same insidious process. The Eugenic Marriage, Volume I. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies A universal air of misery in all the traveler meets points out to him the rapacity of oppression, and the distrust attendant upon slavery. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity At a time when tyranny and rapacity reigned in the castle, the clergy were a chain binding the great to their inferiors. The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel These fires continued to burn during most of the month in which the freebooters held the city, and in which they indulged to the full in their accustomed cruelty, rapacity, and licentiousness. Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII Commercial avarice in India was the parent of more atrocities and greater rapacity, and cost more human lives, than the nobler ambition for extended empire of Consular Rome. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry As commissary with the French armies and later in the internal administration of the country, he had displayed the most heartless rapacity. The French Revolution A Short History One is the extreme greed and rapacity of the manufacturers and industrialists; the other, the excesses, the avidity and intransigence of the workmen and artisans. Some Answered Questions He retained too much of the gentleman to practise extortion, or to connive at the rapacity by which his subalterns tried to make the most of their brief authority. The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel The people, one and all, live out their lives in a heedless stupor and the chief virtues of man are held to be his rapacity and his thirst for blood. Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá The latter leads to the violation of treaties, encroachments upon feeble neighbors, and rapacity toward their wards whose lands are coveted. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry One is the extreme sharpness and rapacity of the capitalists and manufacturers; the other, the excesses, the avidity and ill-will of the workmen and artisans. Bahá’í World Faith Then the problem of strikes—which cause troubles in the country and are often connected with the excessive vexations of the workmen, as well as with the rapacity of manufacturers—how could it remain neglected? Some Answered Questions Justice, likewise, was universally perverted by faction and interest: and from the great rapacity of that duke, and still more of his duchess, all offices and favors were openly put to sale. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part F. From Charles II. to James II. His faults and blemishes were, in many respects, very great; but rapacity and avarice were vices with which he was entirely unacquainted. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell They protect the feeble against the strong, and the defenceless against rapacity and craft. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry There is a story of his severity against this abuse; and it seems to merit praise, though it is commonly cited as an instance of his avarice and rapacity. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary Now reflect: among the Christian nations themselves how many sanguinary wars have taken place, and how much oppression, cruelty, rapacity and bloodthirstiness have occurred! Some Answered Questions But the greater part of those vast escheats were seized by young Spenser, whose rapacity was insatiable. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part B. From Henry III. to Richard III. No imputation of rapacity could justly lie against his administration. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell Its brilliance was only clouded by the cruelty and rapacity of the victors—a force levied without pay and little discipline, and unrestrained, if not encouraged, in brutality by Morgan himself. The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century Even many of the inhabitants of Paris, who believed themselves exposed to the rapacity and violence of the enemy, began to dislodge, without knowing what place could afford them greater security. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary R is a Raven, rapacity charms; S shining Sun, is the Banbury Arms. Banbury Chap Books And Nursery Toy Book Literature They talked of the covetousness and want of scruple of the Knights, of their passion for aggrandizement and their rapacity. Secret Societies And Subversive Movements After rapacity had fully exerted itself, cruelty, and the most barbarous that ever in any nation was known or heard of, began its operations. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell Nothing of value escaped the rapacity of the invaders, who resorted to the extremes of torture to draw from their prisoners confessions of hidden wealth. The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century His rapacity was gratified by plundering the church, his bigotry and arrogance by persecuting heretics. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary They suffered much, however, from the rapacity of the Pasha of Acre, until his power was broken by the invading army of the Viceroy of Egypt, under Ibrahim Pasha. History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume I. He was the incarnation of smooth, specious, malignant, hellish rapacity. Shadows of the Stage Yet for many years more the nations of Europe continued the tribute wherewith the rapacity of the Moors was appeased, and to the United States belongs the honour of first refusing this disgraceful payment. Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond His henchmen were allowed to indulge their rapacity at will. The Victim A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis The unprotected vessels of America presented a tempting object to their rapacity; and their hostility was the more terrible, because by their public law, prisoners became slaves. The Life of George Washington, Vol. 4 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States Often the sailor dreads the rapacity of the collector of customs more than the danger of shipwreck. The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator In this he reckoned on Storri's rapacity, to which a million of dollars was as a mouthful. The President A novel Amongst the various smaller ones, we came upon a huge vulture's nest on a very small tholukh, which seemed to bend and look unhappy beneath the weight of this den of rapacity and violence. Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government England is no longer the foe of French ambition or rapacity. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864 Once on Roman ground, they were left to the mercy of officials whose only thought was to make the famished barbarians a prey to their own rapacity and lust. The Arian Controversy Nothing is worse than a mixture of rapacity and prodigality. The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator There, for eight years, he lived in the midst of all that treason and mendacity and cowardice and rapacity and dishonor which as raw materials are ground together to produce laws for a commonwealth. The President A novel In these orations you will find almost every instance of rapacity and peculation which we charge upon Mr. Hastings. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) There is a story of Walter Mapes having been called to see a Cistercian Abbot, when dangerously ill, and the Archdeacon recommended him to quit his order, and give up avarice and rapacity. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour His disgust with people was born of their unreasonable selfishness, their instinctive greed and rapacity, their blind stupidity, all which resulted for them in so much injustice. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish These seem to have possessed all the rapacity of our robber barons, with but little of their reputed chivalry. Roumania Past and Present After the escape of Cheyt Sing, there still existed in one corner of the country some further food for Mr. Hastings's rapacity. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) My conduct in the late arrangements will be arraigned with all the rancor of disappointed rapacity, and my reputation and influence will suffer a mortal wound from the failure of them. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) The monthly instalment of Mr. Hastings's bribe was become due, and his rapacity must be fed from the vitals of the people. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) The Jew felt an instant's sense of superstition, which he dashed away, and placing the child, already sleeping, before the fire, awakened rapacity led him to hunt the hovel over. Tales of the Chesapeake The result was that many turned brigands, and united to form bands; but even these, it is said, ministered to the rapacity of some of the Phanariote rulers. Roumania Past and Present He went up the country with the rapacity, but not with the talons and beak, of a vulture. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) But possibly some might be buried in vaults, hid from the gripe of tyranny and rapacity. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) Over and above this, there was no mode of extortion, which the inventive imagination of rapacity could contrive, that was not contrived, and was not put in practice. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) The Government of Pretoria took up the attitude that has succeeded so well in deceiving public opinion: that of a council composed of honest men, innocent victims of capitalist rapacity. Boer Politics All the wealth they possessed had been plundered from another set of villains, whose misfortune was, a want of sagacity in escaping the rapacity of their more accomplished compeers. Secret Band of Brothers A Full and True Exposition of All the Various Crimes, Villanies, and Misdeeds of This Powerful Organization in the United States. You may now fairly estimate the avarice and rapacity of this man, who describes countries to be enormously rich in order that he may be justified in pillaging them. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) They had an interest in common in preserving themselves from the rapacity of Spain. South America The rapacity of man has here its bounds: here you shall come, and no farther. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) The blind rapacity of the present ruler will make him astonish the Franks some day, I think. Letters from Egypt They disgorged from the caves of the earth whither the greed and rapacity of their terrible lord had driven them. The Black Douglas The paper shall be produced, that you may have before your eyes the gross contradictions into which his rapacity and acts of arbitrary power have betrayed him. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) Most of the following years he spent at Milan, seeking to organise the government of the duchy, and contending against the rapacity of both the French and the Italian nobles. The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. IV. (of V.) I have laid before you the covenants by which the Company have thought fit to guard against the avarice and rapacity of their Governors. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) It is not enough for them to satisfy the calls of appetite; every article is an object of their rapacity: nothing whatever is left to the plundered victim. Narrative of the Most Remarkable Events Which Occurred In and Near Leipzig Immediately Before, During, And Subsequent To, The Sanguinary Series Of Engagements Between The Allied Armies Of The French, From The 14th To The 19th October, 1813 The King of Prussia was as yet in no condition to remonstrate against this new act of rapacity: opposition from any other German state was wholly out of the question. The History of Napoleon Buonaparte This fortress was supposed by him to contain some money, which he hoped to lay hold of when all other means of rapacity had escaped him. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) In spite of the reputation for rapacity which the avarice and arrogance of her husband helped to create, Catalani won golden opinions by her sweet temper, liberality, and benevolence. Great Singers, First Series Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag The French had correspondents in most of the towns in Flanders, where the rapacity of the Dutch had exasperated the people against their new masters, and made them long for the return of the French. The Cornet of Horse A Tale of Marlborough's Wars Other grievances for which reform was demanded were excessive taxastion and the rapacity of the evil counselors who controlled the King. The Leading Facts of English History The exactions of the victorious military were beyond all former example of licence; and studied contempt was everywhere mingled with their rapacity. The History of Napoleon Buonaparte In no department of the public administration are the baneful effects of that spirit of insincerity andPg 170 rapacity, which is almost universal at Constantinople, more apparent than in the army. Herzegovina Or, Omer Pacha and the Christian Rebels Just as Count Louis II. had, for his lawless rapacity, been driven out of Ghent by Jacob van Arteveldt, so his son, Louis III., was expelled by Philip van Arteveldt, son to Jacob. History of France Another was sent in the same way, and another, and another, until the rapacity of the chiefs was satisfied, or the wretched natives had no more to give. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics A time had now come when the populace clamored for their expulsion from the island, on the ground that their usury and rapacity was ruining the country. The Leading Facts of English History England sent an envoy to remonstrate against this signal and unprovoked rapacity: but the other powers suffered it to pass without any formal opposition. The History of Napoleon Buonaparte There seems to be no limits to his rapacity, for he is always eating and always hungry. Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making Bonnet seemed to be growing proud of his newly acquired taste for rapacity and cruelty. Kate Bonnet The Romance of a Pirate's Daughter Since that time these villages and hamlets have diminished by degrees, in proportion as the rapacity of the contractors and the turbulence of the Rajpoot landholders have increased. A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II Nothing was safe from their insolent courage and rapacity. A Short History of France I do not intend it shall be squabbled over when I am in the dust, or left open to the rapacity of lawyers. May Brooke Pizarro then proceeded in his career of cruelty and rapacity, till, in ten years, he subdued the whole of this great empire, and divided it among his followers. Peter Parley's Tales About America and Australia It is rather that of the inferior officers of government Page 45whose rapacity and extortion renders property, liberty, and life itself insecure. Lives of the Three Mrs. Judsons The rapacity of the King's troops is everywhere, directly or indirectly, the cause of this: and till they are better provided and disciplined the houses in the towns and villages can never improve. A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II We have an indigenous land-shark whose maw is so capacious that the rapacity of his appetite in no wise keeps pace with its lightning-like digestion. Black and White Land, Labor, and Politics in the South The common blue shark, with his twenty-five feet of solid rapacity, would have proved a tough antagonist, I venture to believe, for the best bred enaliosaurian that ever munched a lias ammonite. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science The combination of the order of a settled host with the rapacity of a gang of freebooters made them as irresistible as they were destructive. The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) Colonel Ward and Colonel Stoneman have seen to that, and as far as possible they check the rapacity of the Colonial contractor. Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege But when his brother returned and approached the boundary of his dominions, he met hosts of landholders and cultivators clamouring against the rapacity and oppression of his brother's administration. A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II It has been the prime cause of more misgovernment in the South than any other one cause, not even the insatiable rapacity of the carpet-bag adventurers taking precedence of it. Black and White Land, Labor, and Politics in the South No instance of rapacity or cruelty was ever charged against him, nor did he ever injure any woman or child. American Men of Action Cressingham was a pompous ecclesiastic, who appropriated to his own uses the money set aside for the fortification of Berwick, and was odious to the Scots for his rapacity and incompetence. The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) But his whole reign was a tissue of wantonness and folly, cruelty and injustice, rapacity and corruption. Pinnock's improved edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome to which is prefixed an introduction to the study of Roman history, and a great variety of valuable information added throughout the work, on the manners, institutions, and antiquities of the Romans; with numerous biographical and historical notes; and questions for examination at the end of each section. By Wm. C. Taylor. Accident had called Young's attention to the Rosetta Stone, and his rapacity for knowledge led him to speculate as to the possible aid this trilingual inscription might offer in the solution of Egyptian problems. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 Audley thus made the tenant furnish at once the means to satisfy his own rapacity, and his employer's necessities. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 Some excuse for this rapacity may perhaps be found in the fact, that five thousand pounds was paid for the purchase of the Press Yard by Mr. Pitt, the then governor of Newgate. Jack Sheppard A Romance The Oriental temples had, in some instances, escaped the rapacity of Alexander's generals and "Successors;" their treasuries remained unviolated, and contained large hoards of the precious metals. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 6. (of 7): Parthia The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. Some specie goes out of a country to satisfy the rapacity of a victorious enemy—other specie, also, goes out of a country to settle an account for merchandise. What Is Free Trade? An Adaptation of Frederic Bastiat's "Sophismes Éconimiques" Designed for the American Reader No retreat was sufficiently secure to escape their rapacity and vengeance; no sanctuary sufficiently sacred to repress their lust and cruelty. The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power But can the landed proprietors of Ireland plead ignorance or want of education for their neglect and rapacity, whilst the crimes of the tenants, on the contrary, may in general be ascribed to both? Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three The class most hateful to the people are those low wretches who spring up from nothing into wealth, accumulated by dishonesty and rapacity. The Poor Scholar Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three He wants money to support his-mistress, to feed her vanities and excesses, and you must endure distress and privation, that the insatiable rapacity of a courtezan may be gratified. Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two Let not, therefore, the gentlemen of the Minories, nor our P———s and our M———s nearer home, imagine for a moment that they engross the spirit of rapacity and extortion to themselves. Fardorougha, The Miser The Works of William Carleton, Volume One Each power was endeavoring to grasp all it could, while at the same time it was striving to check the rapacity of every other power. The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power That age was peculiarly marked by the foulest personal perfidy, precipitated into action by rapacity, ingratitude, and the blackest ambition. Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One I will place the circumstances, and the proofs of the respective charges against you, in the hands of my solicitor, and, by the sacred heaven above me! you shall disgorge the fruits of your rapacity. The Poor Scholar Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three Nor was this heathenish rapacity confined to the common soldier; the commanders and subalterns participated with acquisitive eagerness, sharing fully with their commands the hellish instincts of their race. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest Nothing was too small or too helpless for his rapacity. The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London No sympathy need be wasted upon the Venetians, the victims of this coalition, for they had rendered themselves universally detestable by their arrogance, rapacity, perfidy and pride. The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power He no longer ate with a canine rapacity; his appetite was moderate, and his habits temperate, because his body was well nourished and his health was sound. Ishmael Or, In the Depths A display of our wealth before robbers is not the way to restrain their boldness or to lessen their rapacity. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) The world has never witnessed such rapacity for gain as marked the armies of the United States in their march through the South. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest Instead of bestowing influence, they will excite rapacity. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) The only security which property enjoys in any one of its descriptions is from the interests of their rapacity with regard to some other. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) Nothing he could be got to offer would satisfy the rapacity of the man; the box was taken out and opened. Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official I assure him that the Frenchified faction, more encouraged than others are warned by what has happened in France, look at him and his landed possessions as an object at once of curiosity and rapacity. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) |
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