avarice

I am writing it,” she tells us, “and I spill it all out on my lap like very money, like riches, beyond the dreams of avarice.

To wrest a living from the avarice of the earth is to form character with the salt and iron of power in it.

I humbly prayed to be allowed to step between you and your uncle's avarice; but you would not.

Thus strife and anger beget war, avarice stifles benevolence, envy produces hate.

Of all the passions, however, avarice is notoriously that which the latest loosens its hold on the human heart.

I had always been lavish of my means, for whatever faults I may have preserved, avarice and parsimony were not of their number.