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Biggah brodder posss… acq… greedie an kiipd her for sef.
BABY BLANKET - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Uppon this agreement, they parted from Calandrino who hardly enjoyed anie rest at all, either by night or day, so greedie he was to bee possessed of the stone.
The Decameron 2004
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In such unequall choyses, Parents commonly are more blamewoorthy, then any imputation, to bee layde on the young Women, who gladdely would enjoy such as in heart they have elected: but that their Parents, looking through the glasse of greedie lucre, doe overthrow both their owne hopes, and the faire fortunes of their children together.
The Decameron 2004
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The experience as well of all things as of persons and times proueth your ouer greedie desire of noueltie, of fame and vaine glorie, and argueth your great negligence in maintaining the truth.
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But well haue windes his proud blasts ouerblowen, And swelling waues alayd his swelling heart, Well hath the Sea with greedie gulfs vnknowen, Deuoured the deuourer to his smart: And made his ships a pray vnto the sand, That meant to pray vpon anothers land.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The experience as well of all things as of persons and times proueth your ouer greedie desire of noueltie, of fame and vaine glorie, and argueth your great negligence in maintaining the truth.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Whose bruzing teeth, so much the _Phillip_ quaild, That foundring in the greedie maine, he dips His damned bodie in his watrie tombe,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And now he stands amidst the thickest throngs, Walld round with wooden Castels on the waue, Fiftie three Tygers greedie in their wrongs, Besiedge the princelie Lion in his caue: Nothing sees
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Now firie Faulkons flie right greedie of their pray,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And yet while all the earth could scarse my greedie mind suffice,
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second Raphael Holinshed
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