Citations:pelfish

English citations of pelfish

1757, John Dove, A Dissertation upon the suppose existence of the Moral Law of Nature and upon the being of a Trinne God, page 39:
... for this is the noble morality they preach; this is the heavenborn virtue they inculcate: a virtue, the brilliancy of which dazzles the eyes of the sordid mole, the pelfish wretch, the selfish gripple, the earth-born […]
1857, The Dublin review, page 188:
Such sensual, covetous, debauched, selfish, pelfish, cunning and hypocritical faces we never brought together. The Pharisee, Sadducee, Scribe, and Doctor of the Law are all there, most unmistakeably.
1907, William Stigand, Anthea: Poems and Translations, the Latter Chiefly from the German Poet Heine, with Sketch of His Life, page 71:
... fawn to pen / Within some tiger's cage, for hooked claws / To strew its slender frame about the den, / And have its life crushed out by monstrous jaws? / Yet to the arms of tiger-hearted men / Have loving parents for some pelfish cause […]
1922, Daniel Leavens Cady, Rhymes of Vermont Rural Life, page 55:
The war, may be, will do us good / And make us less parured and pelfish; / We'd all be thankful if it would, / We'd rather all be nice than selfish; / […]