...The Arabs, however, have the knack of spoiling markets by their rapacity and cruelty...
Henry M. Stanley 「How I Found Livingstone」
...Many of them have received advances of dollars by thousands, but the European merchant has generally suffered from his credulity or rapacity...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1」
...Amongst the various smaller ones, we came upon ahuge vulture's nest on a very small tholukh, whichseemed to bend and look unhappy beneath theweight of this den of rapacity and violence...
James Richardson 「Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2」
...There I see the tenderest ties ruthlessly broken, to gratify the lust, caprice, and rapacity of the buyers and sellers of men...
Frederick Douglass 「My Bondage and My Freedom」
...It feeds onfrogs, lizards, mice, and other small animals, but like many ofthe snake kind often gorges itself and falls a victim to itsown rapacity...
Various 「Natural History in Anecdote」
...The centre of the chapel looks curiously blank, being left so by thethoroughness with which all trace of Becket’s shrine was removed by thereforming zeal and insatiable rapacity of Henry VIII...
Hartley Withers 「The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.].」
...Their cruelty and rapacity knew no bounds, and filledAthens with universal dismay...
Marcius Willson 「Mosaics of Grecian History」
...This man, with the rapacity so natural to those who disgrace the profession, seizes the first opportunityof plundering his employer...
John Trusler 「The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings」
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