edacious
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If, mounting MALAMBRUNO's steed, He showed more sanguine than sagacious, He was not moved by huckster greed, Or pride edacious.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, November 29, 1890 by Various
Augustus, the physically strong, is no more; transcendent king of edacious flunkies, father of 354 children, but not without fine qualities; and Poland has to find a new king.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
After this Hugo, not contented with the tragedy of the edacious murderer, gives us seven pages of his favourite rhetoric in saccadé paragraphs on the general question.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury
These words Hyndford listened to with an edacious solid countenance, and greedily took them down.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 13 by Thomas Carlyle
So busy has perverse Destiny been on it; perverse Destiny, edacious Chance;—and the Dryasdusts, too, and Nightmares, in Prussia as elsewhere, we know how strong they are!
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 11 by Thomas Carlyle
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