Significados de excite the cupidity em inglês

As for Chapman, he told a number of stories tended to excite the cupidity of the boatmen.

She did not trouble herself to lock the door, for there was nothing in the place likely to excite the cupidity of any dishonest person.

But this had only excited the cupidity of the other petty states.

Their wealth excited the cupidity of the whole alliance; and to that wealth their zeal was the key.

Is it not to your husband that I owe the fortune which excites the cupidity of this wicked Clameran?

Rumors of gold had excited the cupidity of the inhabitants, and the capital was deserted; elsewhere was metal more attractive.

An array of baggage would have probably excited the cupidity of the tribes through whose country we wished to pass.

The furs of that country have excited the cupidity of the Russians, as the Mexican gold mines did that of the Spaniards.

The reports of the vast pastoral wealth of the Umiro excited the cupidity of the various companies in the stations of Abou Saood.

Sin enervated the nation which should have protected it; while the immensity of its riches excited the cupidity of a neighbouring royal robber.

The booty from his raids excited the cupidity of the more venturesome farmers, and they were exchanging the hoe for the revolver and joining him.

Verres came with them, bringing back his treasures of art, and was put to death because they excited the cupidity of the masters of Rome.