What other path to fame, from which the critics had not been able to exclude his steps, was he, then, now pursuing,-he whom Kenelm had assumed to belong to some commercial moneymaking firm?
"Kenelm Chillingly, Book 8."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Some Frenchman has said that the moneymaking instinct is like the talent of certain pigs for smelling truffles.
"A Top-Floor Idyl"
George van Schaick
At present, I said, the students of philosophy are quite young; beginning when they are hardly past childhood, they devote only the time saved from moneymaking and housekeeping to such pursuits; and even those of them who are reputed to have most of the philosophic spirit, when they come within sight of the great difficulty of the subject, I mean dialectic, take themselves off.
"Plato's Republic"
Plato