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Surely, if royalty, thus periodically and mercenarily eulogized, were content, the poet might well be so.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 by Various

The views of her guardian were, however, opposed to the young man's suit, Mr Andrew Tucker mercenarily designing to secure the heiress for his own son.

From Henry Fielding: a Memoir by Godden, G. M.

The thought of carrying on a flirtation under the fastidious Boston eye of Mrs. Brimmer, instead of under the discreet and mercenarily averted orbs of Dona Ursula, did not commend itself pleasantly to Brace.

From The Crusade of the Excelsior by Harte, Bret

All desire is dead within me to produce something on George Sand; though perhaps I shall, all the same, mercenarily and mechanically—though only if I am forced.

From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by James, Henry