self-seeking
Example Sentences
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Self-seeking, regardless of the means by which its object is obtained.
From Our Master Thoughts for Salvationists about Their Lord by Booth, Bramwell
Self-seeking puts all by the ears, as you see children among themselves, if an apple be cast to them.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh
And we have learned that 'tis not all to be Self-seeking pleasure-hunters; higher far Are works of kindliness and charity Which we can do, whate'er our frailties are.
From The Song of the Exile—A Canadian Epic by Skeats, Wilfred S.
Equal and entire, Therein benevolence, desire, Elsewhere ill-join’d or found apart, Become the pulses of one heart, Which now contracts, and now dilates, And, both to the height exalting, mates Self-seeking to self-sacrifice.
From Victories of Love by Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton
By a Spade such a life is threatened or broken, or not free from Self-seeking at others' expense.
From The Square of Sevens An Authoritative Method of Cartomancy with a Prefatory Note by Prime-Stevenson, Edward
