| 1. | Of lucre and ambition, and the trut. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | Lo, such a lucre is in this lusty gam. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 3. | 'Tis he and Cloten malice and lucre in the. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 4. | Shall I, for lucre of the rest unvanquish'd. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 5. | Races which are petrified in dogma or demoralized by lucre are unfit to guide civilization. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 6. | All men are there, Except Bonturo, barterers of 'no' For lucre there an 'aye' is quickly made.. - from The Divine Comedy, Complete by Dante Alighieri |
| 7. | Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre but patient, not a brawler, not covetou. - from The King James Bible |
| 8. | Thenceforth, everything was done on a small scale, instead of on a grand scale for lucre instead of the general good. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 9. | Not, he parenthesised, that for the sake of filthy lucre he need necessarily embrace the lyric platform as a walk in life for any lengthy space of time. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |