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Sentences starting with lust

Lust of rapine and greed for booty glittered in many a fiery, longing look, but their leaders kept them in check with the sword. [10]
Lust after eloquent and flowery expression. [5]

Sentences ending with lust

It fed everything in him --his passion, his vanity; his vagabond taste, his emotions, his self- indulgence, his lust. [11]
Surely the woman's crime was not a dark one; it was injured innocence smiting depravity, tyranny and lust. [11]

Sentences containing lust two or more times

The Bishop has just spoken of a condition of things which none of us can deny, and which ought not to exist; that is, the lust of gain--a lust which does not stop short of the penitentiary or the jail to accomplish its ends. [5]

More example sentences with the word lust in them

I have watched, year by year, this detestable spirit of greed, this lust for money and power creeping over our country, corrupting our people and institutions, and finally tainting the Church itself. [9]
A summer resident who, to satisfy his lust for office, is rolling to defame--'" "Yes," interrupted Mr. Crewe, "never mind reading any more of that rot. [9]
Its huge mouth was open, and all its fierce lust for killing showed again in its wild lunges. [11]
You thought it was lust satisfied. [11]
He travelled far through passes of the mountains, and came at last where new cities lay upon the plains, and where men were full of evil and of lust of gold. [11]
He perceived that they were a quarrelsome people, which possessed the lust for land and conquest like the rest of their blood. [9]
She had seen the look often of late, and had never read it until now, when Jethro Fawe stared at her with the boldness of possession, with the insolence of a soul of lust which had had its victories. [11]
We have noticed that when the average man mentions the name of a multi-millionaire he does it with that mixture in his voice of awe and reverence and lust which burns in a Frenchman's eye when it falls on another man's centime. [5]
The cow is so sacred in India that to kill her keeper is an awful sacrilege, and even the Thugs recognized this; yet now and then the lust for blood was too strong, and so they did kill a few cow-keepers. [5]
Our pilgrims' chief sin is their lust for "specimens. [5]
This lust has rotted these nations; it has made them hard, sordid, ungentle, dishonest, oppressive. [5]
Inflicting, we are prone to cruelty, as you have seen a schoolmaster begin punishment with tears, grow angry at the shrinking back under his cane, and give way to a sudden lust of torture. [11]
Lassiter had gone off, yielding to his incurable blood lust, probably to his own death; and she was sorry, but there was no feeling in her sorrow. [13]
But the sight of your lover's agonies, his indignation, his anger, madden you and you get the lust of cruelty. [11]
Yet a lust of fighting got into me, and it was difficult to hold myself in check at all, nor was it easy to meet his breathless and adroit advances. [11]
Lust, robbery, and murder ruled in Omdurman. [11]
Some of the men had been with him to Hudson's Bay, and they wished nothing better than fighting the English, and all were keen with the lust of gold even though it were for another. [11]
But when the lust in the hunter's heart is for the noblest of all quarries, man, how different is the case! [5]
His rage, his love, and his malignant hate, his tenderness and his lust should fill the barber's shop with a flood which would drown the Gorgio raider. [11]
Important personages, these, looked up to by the city clerks; jolly, reckless, Elizabethan-like rovers, who had tasted of the wine of liberty--and of other wines with the ineradicable lust for the road in their blood. [9]
There is nothing like the lust for gold in the hearts of men. [11]
There was no hatred in his eyes, but he had the lust of fighting on him, and he was breathing easily, and could have kept this up for hours. [11]
That year I had a large number of hens, and Jacko went about among them with the most perfect indifference, never looking on them to lust after them, as I could see, and never touching an egg or a feather. [4]
Both had now got a taste of blood, and there is nothing like that to put the lust of combat into a man. [11]
The lust of fighting was on him now. [11]
Our ivory Teeth, confessing to the Lust Of masticating, once, now own Disgust Of Clay-Plug'd Cavities--full soon our Snags Are emptied, and our Mouths are filled with Dust. [5]
Ensued, therefore, a commingling of patriotism with lust of man-hunting and eager expectation of to-morrow's sacrifice. [11]
Afterwards came the benediction upon this buccaneering expedition, behind which was one man's personal enmity, a merchant company's cupidity, and a great nation's lust of conquest! [11]
With the Germans and Italians I think the case is different; as different as the love of freedom is from the lust for license. [14]
The lust of a mountain feud was on him; he was pursuing the price of blood. [11]

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