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Acquisitiveness also large; this gentleman believes in getting the full value for his money.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOL. 93, SEPTEMBER 24, 1887VARIOUSThose qualities were greed and persistence in acquisitiveness, cunning and subtlety, also bragging and self-assertiveness.
THE BOOK OF LIFE: VOL. I MIND AND BODY; VOL. II LOVE AND SOCIETYUPTON SINCLAIRHer delicately curved lips were free from the grim lines of concentrated acquisitiveness.
MR. GREX OF MONTE CARLOE. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIMHer venality, he began to see, was merely the instinctive acquisitiveness of the savage, the greed of the petted child.
THE SHADOWARTHUR STRINGERHe puts acquisitiveness first and right and sterling honesty and unselfishness second.
THE WHENCE AND THE WHITHER OF MANJOHN MASON TYLERNor did his removal affect the acquisitiveness of his successor, who loyally followed in his footsteps.
LOOKING SEAWARD AGAINWALTER RUNCIMANHis hard, eager eyes showed censoriousness, cruelty, and acquisitiveness.
THE SEA AND THE JUNGLEH. M. TOMLINSONThe true location of acquisitiveness is anterior to combativeness, and lower than adhesiveness.
BUCHANAN'S JOURNAL OF MAN, OCTOBER 1887VARIOUSAnother instinct which has supplied fuel to patriotism of the baser sort is that of acquisitiveness.
OUTSPOKEN ESSAYSWILLIAM RALPH INGEThe storing of provisions by the ants is an exercise of acquisitiveness,—the faculty which with us makes rich men and misers.
VESTIGES OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF CREATIONROBERT CHAMBERSWORDS RELATED TO ACQUISITIVENESS
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