- 19th-century
historian W.R.W. Stephens, "affords some
illustrations of the
avaricious and
parsimonious character of the king". It
seems that
Henry was skilful...
- role of Candie] to
hateful perfection: a spiteful, brown-toothed bully,
avaricious, vain and
prone to flattery", but
criticized Foxx as a
comparatively weak...
- The Book of Misers, and
another by Jim
Colville titled Avarice and the
Avaricious. Editions:
Arabic (al-Ḥājirī, Cairo, 1958);
Arabic text,
French preface...
- hard to make good
small films now",
Allen said in a 2004 interview. "The
avaricious studios couldn't care less
about good films—if they get a good film they're...
- one
confound Popery with Christianity—the
Religion of
Liberty with the
avaricious and
sanguinary Politics of Slavery. [...] You have the duty to educate...
- Sparrow", is a
traditional ****anese
fable telling of a kind old man, his
avaricious wife and an
injured sparrow. The
story explores the
effects of greed,...
-
mulatto girl who
dreams of freedom, but
cannot escape the
reach of her
avaricious grandmother. Eréndira and her
grandmother make an
appearance in an earlier...
-
appropriate mean are
punished in the
fourth circle. They
include the
avaricious or
miserly (including many "clergymen, and
popes and cardinals"), who...
- extravagance. In an
alternative view,
Norman Cantor has
described Edward as an "
avaricious and ****ic thug". From what is
known of Edward's character, he could...
- sloth[ful] be his
retinue The
fifth is
Mammon and has with him the
avarice [
avaricious] and also ****ingly, a foul sin, covetousness, is with his
company of...
