covetous
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And audiences responded with delight to young St. Petersburg conductor Mikhail Tatarnikov and a cast of mainly Russian soloists, including veteran baritone Sergei Leiferkus as the "Skupoi Rytsar", the Covetous Knight, in the pivotal piece.
From Reuters • Jul. 10, 2015
Covetous men subdued it with the steel plow.
From Time Magazine Archive
Covetous of gain, thirsting for patronage, it fans, instead of lowering, the passions by which all hope to profit.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 by Various
Covetous, grasping, utterly unscrupulous and corrupt, and weirdly powerful.
From Alias the Lone Wolf by Vance, Louis Joseph
Was it the squire for killing of his game? or Covetous parson, for his tithes destraining?
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 4 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
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