interested motives

"Yes, and intimated that I urged the matter from interested motives.

"You little know," he replied, "under what interested motives I have acted.

"O'Connor Power was above the suspicion of interested motives".

I will only inquire whether interested motives have nothing to do with his opposition to voting bounties to our soldiers?"

However much you might suspect interested motives in anyone else you cannot imagine that I have any save feelings of love for you.

"Squire Haynes chooses to impute to me interested motives.

An attempt was made to show that Blaine's efforts toward mediation between Chile and Peru were from interested motives.

He was one of those worshippers of Zverkov who made up to the latter from interested motives, and often borrowed money from him.

He is one of the few constitutionalists of his day whom it is impossible to accuse of interested motives.

"Under a misapprehension, you seem to attribute to me interested motives in this matter--to call it by no harsher term.

His connection with Mrs Wogan is very painful to me: and since I believe that she has interested motives, I mean to starve her out.

As for the vile scandal about Hortense and Napoleon, there is little doubt that it was spread by the Bonapartist family for interested motives.

In its early stages, because not a few considered he was in favour of Communion under both kinds, he met with many difficulties, and interested motives were attributed to him.

In particular he was incensed with Mr. Frost, for his imputation of interested motives, although it was only in return for a similar imputation brought against himself.

My particular friends, Sir, are accustomed to sneeze when the door is opened, to give her to understand that they ARE my friends and have no interested motives in asking if I'm at home.

I cannot feel that Sir Joseph is quite right in attributing such interested motives to the officers of our service,' remarked Admiral Harte, bending his head obsequiously towards the First Lord.

And in taking up this position we would have it distinctly understood that we do not seek alone the sympathy of bachelors, in whose objection to loving couples we recognise interested motives and personal considerations.

At such meetings the Jews were under the protection of the general law; and if that proved a weak assurance, it usually happened that there were among the persons assembled some barons, who, for their own interested motives, were ready to act as their protectors.

So, the Excavators' House of Call had sprung up from a beer-shop; and the old-established Ham and Beef Shop had become the Railway Eating House, with a roast leg of pork daily, through interested motives of a similar immediate and popular description.