place-hunter

It argued a fastidious sensitiveness of conscience, and a nice sense of political propriety so opposed to the sordid selfishness and unblushing tergiversation of the ordinary place-hunter as to be almost offensive. '

The Grand Old Man Cook, Richard B 1989

A place-hunter hastened to his old acquaintance, Lincoln, when he was seated, of course, to secure a trough.

The Lincoln Story Book Henry Llewellyn Williams

It argued a fastidious sensitiveness of conscience, and a nice sense of political propriety so opposed to the sordid selfishness and unblushing tergiversation of the ordinary place-hunter as to be almost offensive. '

The Grand Old Man Richard B. Cook

It mattered not that they had approved Weed's management in the past, their fight now proposed to end the one-man power, and every place-hunter who could not secure patronage under Lincoln's administration if Evarts went to the Senate, ranged himself against

A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

"Not a bit of it; a philosopher would have passed these two worthless sugar canes just as a place-hunter passes an overthrown minister, that is, as unworthy of notice."

Willis the Pilot Paul Adrien

He exposes the miser, the seducer of innocence, the self-seeker, the place-hunter, the degraded vendor of moral poison, the 'charitable' hypocrite, with the same fierce moral energy as that with which, when but a lad of one and twenty, he first assailed the vices of the society in which his own lot was cast.

Henry Fielding: a Memoir G. M. Godden

Then and since, every Irishman who accepts the office so vehemently demanded is suspected of a good understanding with Englishmen, and soon becomes reviled as a traitor and place-hunter.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various

If fanatics sometimes "prophesied" out of the fullness of excited brains, or fervid souls, no place-hunter adopted the pulpit as a profession.

Elizabeth Fry Mrs. E. R. Pitman

To the few -- for they are few -- who thrive by deeds of darkness whenever the Union is attacked, these signs of coming change suggest a more tragic interpretation, from which the fanatic and the place-hunter would recoil -- when too late.

Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union Various

There could not have been any selfish ambition in this; no place-hunter would have attempted to bear the heavy burden Kerensky then assumed, especially with his knowledge of the seriousness of the situation.

Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy John Spargo 1921