Isn't it well to have a trades-union system which curbs the avariciousness of employers and gives workmen a chance to develop the best that is in them?
"Editorials-from-the-Hearst-Newspapers"
Brisbane, Arthur
In the evening some Spaniards were sent ashore to see if they could not get some gold; but Columbus, who had evidently had some recent experience of their avariciousness, and who was anxious to keep on good terms with the chiefs of the island, sent his secretary with them to see that they did nothing unjust or unreasonable.
"Christopher Columbus, Complete"
Filson Young
The general theory about him was that advancing years had developed his natural closeness into the stingiest avariciousness.
"The Deluge"
David Graham Phillips