They might have long been a bulwark between Rome and the wild hordes of the desert but for the shortsighted cupidity of Trajan, who reduced Petra and broke up the Nabataean nationality (105 A.D.). [noun]
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It was in the latter temple that the statue of the god by Myron stood; it had probably been carried off to Carthage, was given to the temple by P. Scipio Africanus from the spoils of that city and aroused the cupidity of Verres. [noun]
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Nor was the sword of death stayed until cupidity got the mastery of revenge. [noun]
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But the cupidity of the Indian was soon gratified, and the different bodies again moved slowly onward. [noun]
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He had neither property, family, nor personality; he was defenceless against his master's cruelty, folly, or cupidity. [noun]
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Possession is the sovereign remedy for cupidity, a remedy which would have been the less perilous to Sparta because fortunes there were almost equal, and conditions were nearly alike. [noun]
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Sometimes they offer bait to cupidity. [noun]
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BELLA: (Her eyes hard with anger and cupidity, points) Who's to pay for that. [noun]
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