English example sentences with "avarice"

Young men are apt to fall a victim to their own avarice.

My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them.

If you want to find peace, you must suppress arrogance, avarice and ambition of power.

And provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, in whom there is truth, and that hate avarice, and appoint of them rulers of thousands, and of hundreds, and of fifties, and of tens.

Fury and avarice are dangerous.

It is just possible that in this last and latest time a newborn strong and growing sentiment will come to the rescue, will prompt us to seek out and preserve the last remnant, just as long-belated appreciation came at final stance to save for later generations the Great Sequoia Tree, when man's blind avarice had all but wiped it out.