1
But what you charitably term economy is sordid avarice, and nothing else.
2
To personal profligacy she added sordid avarice, and a positive incapacity for telling the truth.
3
Nor sordid avarice, nor vulgar ambition, could point his footsteps to the pathway leading to that banner.
4
His parsimony degenerated into sordid avarice.
5
The punishment of his sordid avarice will be to see in what a splendid manner this match will be concluded.
6
Was I not sacrificed to the most sordid avarice, in the first instance, and almost flayed alive in the second, to gratify revenge?
7
Vassalage is nevertheless ceasing throughout the kingdom, and with it will pass away that sordid avarice which every modification of slavery is calculated to produce.
8
This once comprehended, one of my apparent contradictions will be easily accounted for, and the most sordid avarice reconciled with the greatest contempt of money.
9
"Oh!" resumed the other, "I don't accuse his Holiness of sordid avarice, such as is rumoured.