Do not, I implore you, chieftains, -do not, I implore you, renew the foul barbarities your insatiate avarice has inflicted on this wretched, unoffending race.
Pray, my dear aunt, what is the difference in matrimonial affairs, between the mercenary and the prudent motive? Where does discretion end, and avarice begin?
In practice, the first step, yama, requires that one achieve restraint from acts and thoughts that might harm others, falsehood, theft, lust, and avarice.
Thus did pride, and jealousy, and vengeance war with avarice and brute-passion in the mansion of my master, filling it with daily tumult and contention.
Returning to the Indian, whose small, sharp eyes, glistening with avarice, betrayed that with him it was only a question of how great a price he could obtain.
In years of scarcity, the inferior ranks of people impute their distress to the avarice of the corn merchant, who becomes the object of their hatred and indignation.