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Greed See also Stinginess. Almayer’s Folly lust for gold leads to decline. [Br. Lit.: Almayer’s Folly] Shakespearean symbol of avarice. [Br. Lit.: The Tempest] fans husband’s hypochondria to get his money. [Fr. Lit.: Le Malade Imaginaire] agrees to sell shadow, symbol of her fertility. [Aust. Opera: R. Strauss, Woman Without a Shadow, Westerman, 432] turns in partner Joe Christmas for reward money. [Am. Lit.: Light in August] the get-rich-quick club. [Am. Lit.: The Common Lot, Hart, 369] inherits, marries, and hoards money. [Br. Lit.: Vanity Fair] wealth as raison d’être. [Fr. Lit.: Eugenie Grandet, Magill I, 258–260]
riches as raison d’être. [Am. Lit.: The Financier, Magill I, 280–282] behind master’s back, takes money he declined. [O.T.: II Kings 5:21–22] insatiable desire for wealth causes his downfall. [Am. Lit.: An American Tragedy] hastily marries courtesan posing as wealthy widow. [Br. Lit.: A Trick to Catch the Old One] Hebrew place name: where greedy were buried. [O.T.: Numbers, 11:33–35] duped into succoring profligate nephew by lure of a fortune. [Br. Lit.: A Trick To Catch the Old One] avaricious fallen angel. [Br. Lit.: Paradise Lost] avaricious knight; seeks philosopher’s stone for Midas touch. [Br. Lit.: The Alchemist] shows material advantages of respectability winning over kinship. [Am. Lit.: The Mansion, Hart, 520] greedy king whose touch turned everything to gold. [Classical Myth.: Bulfinch, 42–44] mercenary chief proverbially kept for himself all the booty. [Fr. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 618] another’s possession gotten, by hook or crook. [O.T.: I Kings, 21] place of ruthless contest among moneymongers. [Br. Lit.: New Grub Street, Magill I, 647–649] marries Isabel Archer for her money. [Am. Lit.: The Portrait of a Lady, Magill I, 766–768] grasping usurer, unscrupulous and ambitious. [Br. Lit.: A New Way to Pay Old Debts, Wheeler, 275] three brothers kill each other for treasure. [Br. Lit.: Canterbury Tales, “Pardoner’s Tale”] medieval symbol of avarice. [Art: Hall, 247] marries old man in anticipation of inheritance. [Am. Lit.: Desire Under the Elms] byword for greedy miser. [Br. Lit.: A Christmas Carol] condemned to impossible task for his avarice. [Gk. Myth.: Wheeler, 1011] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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If I do not conceal myself, he may be reminded to write something disagreeable about my lack of a crest or my appetite for scrap- iron; and although he is inexpressibly brilliant when he devotes himself to censure of folly and greed, his dulness is matchless when he transcends the limits of legitimate comment. The small grey eyes blinked, the lips moved, with greed; greed was the ruling passion; and though there was some good nature, some genuine kindliness, a true human touch, in the old toper, his greed was now so set afire by hope, that all other traits of character lay dormant. But I would not believe, and, dazzled by the greed of avarice, I thought that if one eye could show me riches, the other might teach me how to get possession of them. |
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