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Examples for "rapacity "
Examples for "rapacity "
1 Nor did this satisfy the rapacity of Mohammed Ali and the English.
2 Romans never mutinied, save through the rapacity or incompetence of their general.
3 Their disinterestedness presented a striking contrast to the rapacity of the French.
4 His tall, gaunt, craggy figure had a suggestion of hunger and rapacity .
5 Now for some years the rapacity of maritime peoples has been checked.
1 They were listening with gloomy voracity to the instruction of a third.
2 The corpse was left, entirely naked, to the voracity of wild beasts.
3 A candle of yellow wax illuminated this scene of voracity and revery.
4 This meal was devoured by my worthy relative with avidity and voracity .
5 They were remarkable not only for size, but for voracity and numbers.
1 Her rapaciousness engaged her to give endless disturbance and interruption to commerce.
2 Even more so than in Bridesmaids, McCarthy plays sexual rapaciousness dead straight.
3 And free love delivers the weak up to the rapaciousness of the strong.
4 His kind of rapaciousness , it doesn't end.
5 The provinces groaned at once under all the severity of public imposition and the rapaciousness of private usury.
1 Indeed their excessive voraciousness on such occasions produces, especially after long fasting, all the symptoms of drunkenness.
2 At table, a man may with decency have a distinguishing palate; but indiscriminate voraciousness degrades him to a glutton.
3 You may be able to charge through books, periodicals or other things with a voraciousness that might even surprise you.
4 He brings in with him a primitive voraciousness , and, I am confident, carries away with him a fairly healthy appetite.
5 She surrounds herself with a cacophony of arrangements that draw with magpie-like voraciousness on pop, rock, reggae and indie influences.
1 The mate with difficulty restrained them in their ravenousness .
2 There is the same ravenousness to his life.
3 It is frightening to think, but in Portlaoise Meath exhibited an even greater state of ravenousness than ever.
4 Even the best of women, even the most beautiful, and in their moments of supremest beauty, have this gross ravenousness for facts.
1 The edacity of jealousy is unappeasable:
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