self-seeker

Let me but leave the good name to my three daughters, and that is enough for me; I am not a self-seeker.

Geoffrey was not a truly ambitious man; he was no mere self-seeker.

The man was a soft self-seeker.

It is written by a self-seeker.

And you're a self-seeker.

Their destiny intersects with that of Gore Pîrgu, a brutish self-seeker who is on his way up on the social scale.

A vista of riches, of honours, of power, was stretched out before the longing gaze of this restless and ambitious self-seeker.

Although, as John of Salisbury wrote in his Policraticus, every profession has its miles gloriosus, its boasting self-seeker, learning was to be used only for man's betterment and for God's glory.

Tache Farfuridi, a competitor to both, has been described by Cazimir as a conformist self-seeker, in the manner of M. Joseph Prudhomme, a character made famous by Henri Monnier's prose.

Direct primaries would destroy the party machinery... and would build up a lot of personal machines, and would make every man a self-seeker, and would degrade politics by turning candidacies into bitter personal wrangles.

Moreover, in those times, yes, and even in the hour of her death, she swore from the moment her eyes first fell on me she had known me to be true-hearted and held me in esteem as no self-seeker.

On December 3, 1940, President Roosevelt wrote to Attorney General Robert H. Jackson: "I have been getting a lot of complaints about our friend Rogge-that he is a self-seeker and that he is overbearing."

A core group of three persons, all withdrawn, Epicurean and decadent figures, allow the intrusion of Gore Pirgu, a low-class and uncultured self-seeker, whose character comes to embody the new political class of Greater Romania.

The rumor about the Gold of Tolosa had tipped the balance against Caepio and the Senate, there could be no doubt of it; from Head Count clear to First Class, the whole city shrieked imprecations at Caepio the thief, Caepio the traitor, Caepio the self-seeker.