| 1. | Those venal and furtive loves filled him with despair. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 2. | To the great lady she had given a heart vile and venal to the SOUBRETTE she had given the heart of a duchess. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 3. | de Villefort insignificant, or else dictated by venal ambition," These words were an allusion to the sentiments which the minister of police had uttered with so much confidence an hour before. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |