"Pelf" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Cause I've meanly quitted For the sake of pelf; But ah, the Devil has me outwitted; Instead of hanging others, ...
— Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times - 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance • Charles Carleton Coffin
... gallant chief," she said, "To keep his paltry pelf; The knight who would my castle win, Must dare to come himself." And forth she sternly bade him go, But followed with her eyes. I ween she knew the brave knight well ...
— The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems • H. L. Gordon
... his bosom. But he was too generous long to nurse any feeling which was allied to selfishness. "He is," said Butler to himself, "rich in what I want; why should I feel vexed that he has the heart to dedicate some of his pelf to render them services, which I can only form the empty wish of executing? In God's name, let us each do what we can. May she be but happy!—saved from the misery and disgrace that seems impending—Let me but find the means ...
— The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
... great, and he alone, Who serves a greatness not his own, For neither praise nor pelf; Content to know and be ...
— Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul • Various
... in America to this day. They do not scruple to declare this themselves, and add that we shall be our own conquerors. Can not our common country, America, possess virtue enough to disappoint them? Is the paltry consideration of a little pelf to individuals to be placed in competition with the essential rights and liberties of the present generation, and of millions yet unborn? Shall a few designing men, for their own aggrandizement, and to gratify their own avarice, overset the goodly fabric we have been ...
— George Washington, Vol. I • Henry Cabot Lodge
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