I will not say all I might of this young man's extraordinary rapaciousness:-but one would think, that these grasping men expect to live for ever!
"Clarissa, Volume 5 (of 9)"
Samuel Richardson
It was the rapaciousness and insatiable greed of these plutocrats that had forced the toilers to combine for self- protection, resulting in the organization of the Labor Unions which, in time, became almost as tyrannical and unreasonable as the bosses.
"The Lion and the Mouse A Story of an American Life"
Charles Klein
This breach of faith seems to be the only act in his life that affects his integrity; and it contributed more to his ruin than even the odium which he incurred by the open venality and rapaciousness of his favourites, particularly Vinius.
"Sergius Sulpicius Galba (Galba) The Lives Of The Twelve Caesars, Volume 7."
C. Suetonius Tranquillus