Informal terms for money.
1The feverish desire for place, pelf and power was not upon them.
2Now I have done with the pelf, which must take its chance.
3Have ye heaped, through many wearying months, your glittering pile of pelf.
4Fear prompts him to ask, and Greed-greed for power, place and pelf-answers
5The ruling passion of the age: worship of self and worship of pelf.
6The plaudits of the world sought not, but scorned its praise and pelf.
7That Maurice loved power, pelf, and war, can hardly be denied.
8Granville, for his part, couldn't bear to see such ingrained love of pelf.
9Yet that parsimony sprang from a nobler motive than the mere love of pelf.
10These are wenches and they are always seeking only pelf.
11She cares for no "cause" but her own cause of ease and pelf.
12Under the first Richard and the third Henry the Templars increased in pelf, power, and pride.
13Others are young and vigorous, recent entrants in the planet-wide contest for pelf, possessions and power.
14China is a student's paradise where the possession of learning is instantly convertible into unlimited pelf.
15And shall I grudge the man sufficient pelf
16How many here below allow themselves to be inebriated by the love of honours and pelf!