In off the moors, down through the mist beams, god-cursed Grendel came greedily loping.
In off the moors, down through the mist beams, god-cursed Grendel came greedily loping.
She was in the downstairs bathroom sneaking bites from the macaroons my father's firm always sent us for Christmas. She ate them greedily they were like suns bursting open in her mouth.
What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, But also by beasts, and to be preferred to all things.
Freedom is the ferment of freedom. The moistened sponge drinks up water greedily the dry one sheds it.
What they have in common is that if the reviewer did not already possess them, he would long for them most greedily.
Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.
Aesop, that master storyteller of old, told this fable A jar of honey was upset in a housekeeper's room, and a number of flies were attracted by its sweetness. Placing their feet in it, the flies ate greedily. Their feet, however, became so smeared with honey that they could not use their wings, nor release themselves, and they were suffocated. Just as they were dying, they exclaimed 'Oh, foolish creatures that we are, for the sake of a little pleasure we have destroyed ourselves.'
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.
Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
Education and knowledge should not be the property of an elitist club greedily hoarding itswealth, but a free and open establishment designed for the benefit and progress of the whole ofmankind.
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